Apologies!

Morning, everyone!

Sorry for not posting for four days! I fell off the wagon big-time with that - but the good thing about wagons is that you can always get back on! So, without further ado, on with the post!

This past week was truly a great week for me. I had meetings with friends almost every day of the week. On Monday I met with a friend whom I haven't seen in a few months, and who had just returned from a trip. That was wonderful to see him again, and we had a really enjoyable talk. 

Then, the next afternoon, I met a friend from Junior High for some awesome Chai at Edmonton's Remedy Cafe. That was a really fun. I ran into her during Orientation for first-year University students, and we had a lovely "Reunion Moment" which raised a chorus of "Awwww..."s from both our Orientation groups. It was a challenge hooking up with her, though. We played Facebook-tag for the duration of first semester, then switched to a bit of phone tag.

Finally, when we got together, we had a huge talk and drank Chai for about 3 hours and talked, talked, talked. It was truly a fun afternoon.

I was a bit scared at first that it would be awkward between us, seeing as we hadn't spoken for about 3 years, but it soon turned out that we had too much to talk about to let a small thing like that get in the way.

The lesson I learned through my two meetings with friends was this:

It really doesn't matter how long you take to get back in touch with friends - just do it and get to know them again. Good friends remain friends despite some time.

Here's a wonderful story, and a wonderful lesson.

Two young men bought a lion cub and raised him lovingly. However, he grew too big for them to keep, and they were forced to reintroduce him into the wild. Fortunately, the lion - named Christian - was successfully reintroduced.

One year after Christian's release into the wild, the two men wanted to see him again. They were told that the lion was head of his own pride and was completely wild, and thus could not remember them. They went inspite of that and the rest - you'll have to watch in the video. :)

Apologies about the newscast at the beginning of the video - this is the only one I could find. Hopefully you like it. It's a wonderful message and a touching story.

Time does not separate friendship - it matures it like a good wine.

Namaste,

Clarise