I talk a lot about life don’t I? I guess it is because it was almost taken away from me a few times in my life and I have looked at it from a weird perspective since.

The closest to death I came was in my skydiving accident where my parachute opened two seconds before the ground.

Things like that can shift how you see life and make things feel a bit more rare and dear, like family and experiences in life, and now I am seeing life through a weird lens. I look at life as more temporary like Heating, Ventilation, and A/C tech friends who have come and gone at the heating dealership where I work. I look at all friends and family as being more temporary and finite than I used to and it has made for better relationships as a result. I like doing my heating and cooling system repairs nowadays and don’t find things so strenuous like I used to before my life altering events. I feel it takes something like that to open our eyep and make us realize that this ride won’t last forever and that my friend and I have to start appreciating it now before it is too late. I will be an outdated man maybe one morning, laying beside my mini split air conditioning system in the nursing home, just reminiscing about the past and remembering my life in general. And when I am laying there I want to feel triumphant that I lived a full life and took the openings that were given to me. I wish you the same.

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