Of Meetings Past

I grabbed a notebook from my drawer today and discovered some notes from meetings I attended a year ago. At the time, the meetings seemed important and took up a great deal of time and effort. Today, they seem trivial and inconsequential. The project we had been working on never got off the ground, despite all the resources that were poured into it.

Life is like that, I guess. Things that seem critical today wind up being unimportant in the great scheme of things. Other things that seem a low priority become of critical importance when you look at the big picture. The sad thing is that most of us never get good at figuring out what is important and what isn't.