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Open letter to my all my friends
Dale Lindsey
(7695)
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10/6/2009 2:39:13 PM · 29 Views
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I recently recieved an email from an old friend named Lori. It showed a picture of flowers with the following caption:
There comes a point in your life when you realize:
Who matters,
Who never did,
Who won't anymore...
And who always will.
So, don't worry about people from your past,
there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.
Give these flowers to everyone you don't want to lose in 2009, including me, if that's what is in your heart.
I wanted to send it on, but I felt like I had to add my own take on it, so I wrote an answer addressed to Lori but really intended for everyone and attached it to the message and sent it on.
I wanted to post it here because it applies to people I have met here, too. You may get something from it and you may not, but here is what I wrote (with a few edits to make it more general):
Dear Lori,
Thanks for thinking of me. The message in this email started me thinking, especially the part about putting people in your past behind you. You know, people will always come and go in our lives; that is the way the world works. And who’s to say who will be a part of our future and who will not? We are limited in time and space, at least physically, but I believe that our hearts and minds are not. For instance, I may have lost touch with you at times in my life, and I may lose touch with you again for one reason or another, yet I know that you have been, are, and will always be my friend.
Thanks to the Internet, I have caught up with people I haven’t heard from in over 30 years. Will they be a part of my future? Only time will tell. And yet, I know that everyone we meet touches our lives in some way, and we touch theirs, for better or worse. And I believe that, if we have faith in God and ourselves, then we will find a way to make the good outweigh the bad.
I have friends I have made over the Internet that I have never met in person. And yet they are no less my friends than those I have seen and touched. My wife Liz and I were pioneers in this type of virtual relationship long before the Internet. We started out as pen pals. Long before we ever had our first date, we built a relationship in letters without touching or looking in each other’s eyes.
Eventually, though, we parted ways and for a long time neither saw, spoke to nor even sent letters to each other. I don’t know why, maybe we just needed that time apart to understand what we really meant to each other. I didn’t know if we would ever see each other again. And if I had believed that people from my past always belonged in the past, I would not have started the reunion that brought us back together and maybe we never would have. But then I saw her standing in my doorway after 15 years apart, and it seemed as if no time had passed at all.
So it seems that friendship, and love, is not bounded by time, or distance, or any other physical restraint. And no one can say with absolute certainty what our future may hold and who will be a part of it.
For this reason I am sending this message to everyone I know (or at least everyone in my email address book). Because we may not all know what part we will play in each other’s future, but we are here now, and I know that I don’t intend to lose anyone in 2009. I intend to spend it enjoying old friends and making new ones.
Thanks,
Your friend,
Dale
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Re: Open letter to my all my friends
10/7/2009 3:19:56 AM
Adriano Parmiggianno
(5597) wrote:
That was a very poignant message but...........when you say,"yet I know that you have been, are, and will always be my friend."....it kind of reminds me of Mr Spock in "The Wrath of Khan". |
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Re: Open letter to my all my friends
10/7/2009 7:23:57 AM
Dale Lindsey
(7695) wrote:
Uh-Oh, you mean I stole it from Star Trek?... Noooo!!!
Actually, I like Star Trek, so I don't mind pinching a good one from them :)
-Dale |
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