What Will You Miss?

   So, it's late June, in about 8 weeks the five members of my MC class that came for a second year will be back at their homes, and I will be getting started with college life. So many things will start changing, well they've already started to change, that's just when everyone will really see it. I was thinking about this and I started thinking about what I will miss when they're gone. The talks, the stupid stuff, and the times when we just get to be together and not really have to worry about other things or what others might think. I know that during our MC year there were things I missed, opportunities not taken because I was afraid or bound in such a way I couldn't do it. So I do miss some things from then, but not too much because I don't want to live in the past, I want to remember and learn from it so that my now and future will somehow be better.
   All this stuff got a question rolling through my head "What will you miss?". When people are gone, and things are no longer the same, what will you miss? It's a pretty weighty question. Because it's just not about the thing or the activity, it's about the person that made it special, memorable. So I guess that makes it, "Who will you miss?" but that doesn't seem to carry the same amount of weight. Because you will miss different people different amounts and in different ways. And you have people like me, who miss people a lot, but don't seem to be missed, people who choose to try hard enough to keep people from maybe missing them because they're scared of finding out that they aren't. Which really sucks, because then you become needy(at least somewhat) and wonder what's going on when you hear about others being told they're missed, but *strangely* you haven't heard anything like that.
   Anyways, back to the question, it makes me think apocalyptic. If the end of the world was tomorrow, what would you miss? What would you choose to do, and with who? I know that these questions usually prompt the last-ditch answers like: break laws, profess love to secret crushes, jump off a mountain, etc. and so forth.
I don't care about that stuff(well not in this context) those are the answers as if everything will end. What if everything doesn't end, just the world does? Strange thought huh? The end of the world doesn't mean the end of everything. This question prompts a whole system of prioritizing what you do into the things that really matter the most to you. Sure, you might not go plant a tree to help the Earth, but you might go climb one with some friends and for a little while regain part of your childhood. Sure, you might not take the one you love on an airplane to an exotic country to enjoy a meal while you serenade them in the native language, but you might take the time to write a note saying how much you care about them then go watch a sunset/rise together.
   Throughout Ecclesiastes Solomon talks about how he has searched out everything under the sun(outside of Christ) and found everything to be meaningless except to eat, drink, and enjoy life. It's not the extravagant things that are most important, it's the simple things. The times of touching someone else's heart is worth so very very much more then touching their soul. That is what needs to be done. And it may be just a hunch, but I believe that that is what will be missed too.
   So. What will you miss? and What are you going to do about it?