I talk a lot about life don’t I? I think it is because it was almost taken away from me a few times in my life and I have looked at it from a different 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 precious and dear, like family and experiences in life, and now I am seeing life through a different lens. I look at life as more temporary like HVAC 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 difficult like I used to before my life altering events. I guess it takes something like that to open our eyes and make us realize that this ride won’t last forever and that we have to start appreciating it now before it is too late. I will be an old man maybe one day, sitting beside my mini split air conditioner in the nursing home, just reminiscing about the past and remembering my life in general. And when I am sitting there I want to feel content that I lived a full life and took the chances that were given to me. I wish you the same.

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