Old Friends

Yesterday I planned lunch with an old friend I had not seen for years. We ended up spending several hours together catching up on all that had happened in the intervening years. We met as professionals years ago. We got to talking about our adolescences and I realized we had been at the same seminary boarding school in high school for a brief time. Since we last talked, I have published a book largely about this seminary and never knew (or had forgotten) that he had been there. It made me realize that there are people with whom I have connections that I don't even remember. What would our lives be like if we remembered all those threads and took them with us on our journey through life?