The Human Condition: Footsteps

Do you remember the last time you missed someone? Not just a fleeting memory but a strong yearning, so strong it’s palpable.

Maybe it’s a loved one now passed, an old flame, a faraway friend, kids who have left home or even a wise mentor who influenced change in your life.

The people who have shared your footsteps. Because where your footsteps go as does your heart. Right?

I imagine, on another plane our footsteps, and those that walk beside ours are tangible. They carry the conversations, the jokes, the sentiments and the love step by step along whatever track or trail it is that we choose.

So when we walk those steps a second, a third, an infinite time that imprint is reignited.

Can you think of some steps you’d like to retrace with someone? Would you change the story or would you be satisfied to just live the story again? Just to experience those moments, the conversations, the feelings one more time?

Perhaps self-care should have been higher on the agenda of late however with yet another work trip in my diary I diligently jumped on the plane and traveled to a remote destination far away from the people I love the most with one foot touching their existence, and the other in my work identity.