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Last night was arguably the most important, highest stakes basketball game of the year. And did I watch it? No. I was playing bridge. Maybe I have my priorities straight. Or maybe Monday night is just the wrong night of the week to have the NCAA championship basketball game on. I've missed a lot of those games over the years because of that.

But perhaps this year it didn't matter. Because on Saturday evening, when the semifinals were happening, I didn't watch those games either. I was eating spicy chili and watching It's a Wonderful Life (that's right, in March) with several people from college group.

Perhaps the most important thing in life isn't what we do as much as whether we did it with people. And whether we enjoyed those people, and loved them, and were willing to sacrifice things like big important basketball games for them. It's a rough (wonderful) life.