It is the nature of a journey that you will meet friends and fellow strangers along the way. You will share campsites and swap stories and learn from each other how to weather your futures just a little more wisely. Then the sun will rise, or the signpost arrive, and you will go your separate ways. This, too, is the way of things: most of the souls you encounter will not go with you to the end. You have the time you have with them, and if you are skilled enough in pilgrimage, bittersweetened by your travels, you will learn to let that be enough.
