Later, I realized just how often this happens in life. We lose contact with the friends we surrounded ourselves with in high school and college.

Priorities change and our time is spent with new people. Christmas cards replace daily conversations.

Sometimes we are fortunate to hit the redial button. Other times it seems the line has been permanently disconnected, whether by choice or pure accident.

It's a fact of life that people come and go. Faces from the past may appear in front of you in the grocery line or at the table next to you at your favorite restaurant. On the other hand, they may not.

Those chance reconnections are welcomed surprises, but are never guaranteed.

Somehow though, that needed phone call slips through our fingers and the email never gets sent.

A few days later, I sent an email to one of the many lost connections in my life. Maybe I'll hear back and maybe I won't, but at least I will know I did something.

I realized, the phone really wasn't that heavy and that email took but a few minutes. And I could do it again, only sooner.

I am reminded of the lyrics to a children's song: "Make new friends but keep the old, one is silver the other is gold."

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