If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time by Tyrone Davis hit #3 on the Billboard chart in 1970. It is popular today since we turned back the clock one hour as we returned to standard time. We can never return to the past. We heard this week that the Newark Star-Ledger, a major New Jersey newspaper is ending its print edition while some other newspapers are ceasing publication completely. I always enjoyed flipping through the Sunday New York Times, but now I have a subscription to the online version. Perhaps soon even the New York Times will end its print edition.
I always think back to people I haven't seen in decades, but I can't turn back the hands of time and restore an old friendship. I have reconnected with people through social media, but that encounter is always brief. I met SG who now lives in Toronto in 2000. He was an old friend from my Rego Park days. We walked around the old neighborhood, but since that meeting, I have had no contact with him. I have been to a few high school reunions, but there have been no follow-ups.
I Googled some old friends but didn't want to contact them. MH is a successful attorney, while AA is a CPA in private practice. I have discussed in this journal my failed attempts to reconnect with former colleagues.
We must look ahead to the future, not back upon the past.
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