Sitting on a park bench

My CEO wrote this about someone who was leaving the company...

The thing I will miss most about working with M on a daily basis is his character. At last year's Leaders Meeting, M talked about sitting on a park bench long after he has retired. He wondered if the people he encountered throughout his life would walk over and say hello, or turn and walk away. He conducts himself everyday in the hope that people will want to walk toward him in that park. It may be quite some time from now, but I know I'll not walk - I'll run to greet him on his bench; I'll give him a hug and we'll talk for a long, long time.

I found it extremely touching. You could just picture it... an elderly gentleman, sitting quietly in a park as the autumn leaves gently float down to the grass. And people... people from his life, walk out of the haze of his memories, walk toward him, smile, greet him and clasp his hand for a brief instant before walking back into the depth of days past. It's a beautiful visual.