When baseball’s Henry Aaron hit his 175th home run breaking Babe Ruth’s record, he said, “I don’t remember the noise, or the two kids that ran on the field. My teammates at home plate, I remember seeing them.
I remember my mother out there and she hugging me.
That’s what I’ll remember more than anything about that home run when I think back on it. I don’t know where she came from, but she was there…”
-interview with George Plimpton
This is what matters, what we yearn for. Connection with the people who love us most dearly and whom we look up to. Make that call today. You know which ones.
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