What if I've found my soulmate --but he hasn't found me yet?

Ok--so this sounds really stupid. I've known who my soulmate is for almost 25 years. Our lives just took us in different directions. Last week, I had the opportunity to speak to him on the phone at a mutual friend's house. He was suppose to be on the West Coast. We just "happened" to be visiting our home town on the East Coast the very same week. What are the odds?! I spent time with him (purely platonic) and was overwhelmed with emotion about how I still felt about him after all this time and how much we have in common. Our mutual friends never told him that I had asked about him constantly. So I finally got to tell him. He went back west....I went back North and he's all I can think of. After almost 25 years, he's the only one I will ever truly love unconditionally. He has a different lifestyle then mine. I think I might have scared him away even though he promised to keep in touch now that he knew how to contact me. The whole situation makes me sad to know what could have been.