The phrase comes from the sport of baseball where both runner and fielders have to ‘touch base’ in order to be safe or record an out. The corner bases are stations with which a runner must make contact before being put out or, perhaps, the need for a fielder possessing the ball to make contact with one of the bases to record an out.
The current idiomatic use of touch base implies a meeting of sorts between two people. One possible explanation for the derivation could be that the idea of base as a home or headquarters might lead to the suggestion of a salesman in the field returning to headquarters to meet with a client or colleague.
Our base could be close family, core team or our passion, our reason for true joy. Every time we touch base, we reconnect to people and priority. It is said so well that not keeping in touch is injurious to relationship. When we reconnect we are reenergised and also connect to initial vision and mission.
Touch base is not just meeting or reconnecting. Often it needs seeking or searching for the base as we may have strayed far away from that base. We may have lost sight of that base. Hence it is important to maintain the conscious link to our personal or collective base. When we touch base we reclaim original purpose.
Do not run around an aimless race
On a regular
basis… do touch base!
- Pravin K Sabnis
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