It appears that in addition to being introspective today I am also inclined toward writing. I was walking down the long hallway at work and I saw one of my friends at the other end of the hallway. We waved and turned down different halls long before we ever met. I thought - what an apt description of our journey through life.
We are all walking down a great maze of intersecting hallways. Sometimes we walk together. Sometimes we pass each other. Sometimes we make the same turns. Sometimes we make different turns. Sometimes we glimpse each other in passing. Sometimes we move down the same hallways and because of the influence of time and timing, we never even see each other. Sometimes we recognize friends in the distance, wave, and then make the turns we are inclined to make.
Sometimes we will change our paths to walk different hallways with our friends. Sometimes they will change to walk with us. Sometimes we double-back and cover the same ground we have already covered. Habit and choice can often send us down the same hallways day after day. I think the nature of love and friendship is that we should encourage each other to go down those hallways we are inclined to go down, even when those hallways separate us.
In the end, we are all walking the same hallways, just as different paces and at different times. Somewhere in those hallways we meet. Then we meet again and again and again as time flows inexorably past.
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