Timing is everything

I ran into someone I knew from my childhood last night. It got me thinking. Are we all just two ships passing in the night? We meet people in life who mean something to us and then somehow that changes. Granted I'm not saying I knew anything about life when I was twelve. But, it still gives me pause to consider all of the people I have known in my life and what they have meant to me. I think of those I met when I was too young or the people I have yet to meet that will impact my life.

What about the person in the coffee shop that smiles at you and you hold eye contact for that extra second but you just grab your latte and leave? Was that your person or the next great teacher in your life? Do you remember that person from your past who still makes you smile when you think of him? Maybe moving on means never forgetting where we came from and the people who have shaped our present.

"Ships that pass in the night and speak each other in passing;
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence."

- Heny Wadsworth Longfellow, 1873

Think of those moments when you look at someone and pause to say something but you stop yourself. What if we all took a risk in that vulnerable and honest moment and spoke? I have always said that things happen when they are supposed to happen in the way that they are supposed to happen but maybe helping destiny along is worth shifting the cosmos. After all, timing is everything, and there is only so much time that we have. 88 days to go :)