Since I have been in DC, I have reconnected with a few friends... some from long ago (ex- I haven't seen them since 3rd grade), others more recent friends who I lost touch with once they graduated from Auburn. But what I have learned, is that it never hurts to reach out again, no matter how much time has gone by. Those people that you form real friendships with, will be happy to pick up where time left off. It is a wonderful thing.

To reconnect is to win the battle against time. To stand the test of it, I guess you could say. Time so often doesn't play us a fair hand. Time ages us. It can often harden us. It's unpredictable. But, when we reconnect, we choose to look past the gaps that time has placed in our lives. And, against the odds, we win against time.

It's an exciting prospect when I think about crossing paths again with someone from long ago- there is something to be said about the friends that you can just pick up where you left off. I think those friends from long ago give us a tiny blast into the past- a nostalgic look into where we have come from. And often, they show us how far we have really come. Reconnecting shows us that even though time changes things, and even the way we think, at the core of it all the same person is still there after all the years. How lucky we are to be able to reconnect even when life has taken us years apart.

We should pick up the pieces more often.