To them for whom time feels linear, an opportunity overlooked is an opportunity lost.  To them for whom time is more of a circle, that opportunity may come around again.  How are the two to get along when one feels a loss where the other feels hope?  But, he'd as often wonder if the two weren't magnets to pull the other in: Wasn't it that loss seeks hope, and hope seeks loss in order to feel hope again?  He'd twirl such notions in his mind for no more than five minutes — which, though, came to him often, sometimes a dozen to the hour.