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To this day Jairek and I are good friends. If I never met him, I would not find out who Tony Robbins was back then and I would not be where I am today! Synchronicity! 
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On the other hand, I have missed out on many other opportunities including my own family member. When I finally moved to the US in 2001, my sister started dating a guy from her business school. He was a poster child for a student: he lived in a dorm with shared bathroom with 10  other people, drove some bit up car, and overall maintained a very simple lifestyle. When my sister and him got serious, we started going to his family estate in La Jolla, California on vacations.  Its about 20 million dollar home with a million dollar view, one of a kind art pieces, unique design, and of course comes with a housekeeper and a chef. For about 7 years I was admiring this place and a lifestyle of the owner of the house, but it seemed always out of reach to me. I would even put it this way  I had not a single though running through my mind that anything like that was possible for me. Who was I? I did not think much of myself back then.  A few times my sister would visit me in New York City and stay in $3 million dollar penthouse overlooking Broadway and Central Park that belong to the same family member.  I could only admire that place and feel like crap going back to my tiny and old East Village apartment. That family member flew his own private jet, owned estates all over the country and international, and was friends with people like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and other luminaries. 
And guess what I did to learn from this successful man, to gain his wisdom? Nothing! I did absolutely nothing! I did not even bother to spend time with this gem of a man to dig his brain and learn how he became so successful. Moreover, I had no idea how successful he was and had no interest in learning. Well, after becoming successful myself and meeting luminaries like Sir Richard Branson on my own, I became curious to google my acquired uncle. I was blown away but what I saw: In early 2000, he was listed at No. 41 on Forbes magazines list of the worlds richest people, , the 24th-richest man in America with $10 billion, making him then wealthier than investors Carl Icahn, George Soros and Kirk Kerkorian.  How is that?  I under saw one of the biggest luminaries in the world right under my nose. What a lesson! How many opportunities do you miss every day? How many people you dont start a conversation with could change your life forever? My friend, from this moment, treat every single person as the most important person in the world! You never know who is next to you!