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\"\"We\u2019ll fret about making connecting flights. Maybe we\u2019ll mutter a critique on modern air travel or rant about booking a route that involves different carriers and a shuttle ride or run through a concourse obstacle course that would challenge even the finest show dog at Westminster.<\/p>\n

Then, there are other situations where we experience a missed connection<\/strong> as a profound loss even though the likelihood of events following our fantasy script are more than improbable.<\/p>\n

Missed Connection <\/strong>notes on local websites might feature short and direct pleas like, \u201cGirl in the yellow sundress, riding the red line downtown last Monday at 8:00 AM. I think you\u2019re the one. The guy with the curly black hair and silver Yeti water bottle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Feeling justifiably sorry for yourself over uncontrollable forces that prevented you from getting what you wanted or possibilities that never blossomed is not the point. Is it?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not really at the heart of a missed connection.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, I received an email from a woman who was on my tour to Northern Spain and Portugal last October.<\/p>\n

She had a traveling companion, a roommate, but we hung out together a lot. She had also lived in Chicago, my hometown, for years and recognized some of my references.<\/p>\n

Currently making her home in Albuquerque, she knew the difference between Rogers Park and Hyde Park and understood, flatlander that I am, why it was often hard for me to look out the window of our motor coach speeding along narrow bridges over the Douro Valley and really take in how steep a drop it was on both sides.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to be coming to Chicago next week,<\/em> she explained.\u00a0 My aunt is turning a hundred and the family is getting together.I\u2019m staying with my sister who lives in northwest Indiana so I\u2019m not sure how often, or if, I will get into the city.<\/em><\/p>\n

I was happy to hear from her. So often, you exchange contact information with people you meet at a conference or on a tour and never talk to them again.<\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t have her own car and had tons of obligations over her five-day stay, but I was hopeful we might be able to get together.<\/p>\n

I offered to meet her at O\u2019Hare for breakfast or an overpriced Cinnabon before she left town. For me, a trip to the airport was relatively easy. I was so happy about spending some face-to-face time, even forty-five minutes, with someone with whom I felt simpatico.<\/p>\n

We promised to stay in touch.<\/p>\n

The weekend came and went.\u00a0 Following my normal routine, I took my dog out for our morning walk around 7:45 on her last day in Chi-town and came back home to find a message on my cell.<\/p>\n

In her voicemail, my friend expressed apologies that we couldn\u2019t hook up, noting that her short visit was more than full. She reiterated her open invitation for me to visit her in New Mexico. Maybe, we could go up in a hot air balloon some October during Albuquerque\u2019s International Balloon Fiesta.<\/p>\n

I could have called her back before her flight boarded, but I figured we could always make time for a phone call when we both felt relaxed.<\/p>\n

Within a couple weeks, I\u00a0 created an email list of people that might be interested in joining me for classical music and wine at Millennium Park. I invited some friends over for dinner. I pinned another friend down for a lunch date when her consulting gig took her closer to my side of town.<\/p>\n

Not getting to see my travel friend, reminded me how much I needed to feel belonging<\/strong>. I decided to take small actions that might make me feel more CONNECTED. I thought about the term \u201cMissed Connections.\u201d<\/p>\n

it\u2019s not about something OUT THERE; poor timing or ill-willed forces at play. It\u2019s about something INSIDE. We can use any event, even one that didn\u2019t turn out as planned, as a prompt to focus on what’s in front of us.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s really only one possible understanding of a \u201cmissed connection.\u201d That is, a failure to recognize the message of the moment, stopping short of making an association between your mind and heart and your present circumstances.<\/p>\n

So, I renew my pledge daily \u2014 to notice my surroundings and how I feel.<\/p>\n

Knowing that each second contains a gift, a new opportunity, even if that is changing plans, is no small thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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