IS IT WORTH OUR TIME?
"Consider how we use our time in the choices we make in viewing television, playing video games, surfing the internet, or reading books or magazines. Of course it is good to view wholesome entertainment or to obtain interesting information. But not everything of that sort is worth the portion of out life we give to obtain it. Some things are better, and other's are best."
~Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, "Good, Better, Best"
You were finding that spark that you thought you lost not knowing it was there, just waiting for your efforts to make it glow. You left him saying it's not the same but then years after seeing him again, you knew you were wrong.
Can you calm things down and bring back things the way it was before the storm?