A man reflects on a friend who died in a house fire, remembering their plans for a business that would give the friend more time with his daughter. At 41, starting over alone, he argues that being alive itself is the blessing, and wasting today on excuses about age or fatigue dishonors that gift.
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So, woke up this morning and I'm on Facebook and just getting ready for my day, planning out my content, and Facebook gives you these memories, and one of the memories is of a buddy of mine who passed away in a fire. And I'm thinking back and he and I had these massive plans. We were gonna help him create a huge business. It was just gonna be this amazing thing and he was gonna be able to spend more time with his daughter and it was gonna be awesome, and then it was all going really well and bam, just out of nowhere, house fire, he passed away. Really, really sad. Broke my heart. But I was thinking about it and I'm thinking about all of the hard things that I have to go through in a day. You know, I wake up and it's like, oh, 41, I'm alone. I'm trying to figure things out again. I'm trying to start over. And it's like, yeah, but I'm here, right? There's so many things that I get to experience today, or I will get to experience tomorrow, or 5 years from now, or 10 years from now. That he won't, that he just, he doesn't get. And what a blessing that is and how it really cuts all the BS excuses like, oh, are you tired? Oh, are you feeling old? Oh, are you— it's like, yeah, but you're here. There's opportunity. There's blessings that are going to come. There's amazing things you're going to get to do. And yeah, there's going to be some trials and hardship too, but you get those. You get to have those. I don't know, just, you know, that, uh, that thankfulness for being here, I guess, you know?
