Throughout our lives we find the opportunity to meet many people from the darkest to the brightest corners of our lives. They emerge and fade away just as we’re watching them on a movie screen. Some may live with us as family members, spouses, or partners. Perhaps they’re a prominent character in a film or story.
Although they may leave us physically, their impact on our lives might stay with us forever. While we may even forget that they ever existed, we catch ourselves acting, thinking, behaving, and living like them. By examining their words of wisdom, character or behavior more closely, we discover so many things about them that makes us marvel at them as though they’ve been never known to us. We then admit that they were really exceptional by studying them more carefully as if identifying someone for the first time.
Have you ever experienced getting to know someone for the first time although they might have been in your life forever?
Who is that person? Why do you follow their footsteps? What makes them stand out in the crowd?
Tell me your story about such a person in your life.