Recently I connected once again with a high school classmate with whom I had lost contact for many years. We grew up near one another, went all through grade and high school together, and then went our separate ways. It was good to compare notes, see how our lives had changed, and how they had remained the same over the years.
I find that as I move into my "senior years", I want to re-establish relationships with people from my past life. This is especially true of people who played some kind of significant role in my life at a former stage. It's as though there is "unfinished business" that requires completion, as though the circle must be fully drawn.
This in turn brings me back to the realization, which I've reflected on in a previous pondering, that all we really have in life are the relationships we've formed. Since, as the saying goes, "There are no uhauls behind the hearse", we can take nothing out of this life except the people we carry in our hearts.
So what more important thing are you doing today than building, patching up and strengthening the connections with the people in your life?
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