Two things of important note happened to me today. It’s the final push that helped bring this idea into being.
The first is a phone call from my father. When he calls it’s always hit or miss as to what he will talk about. He is a fairly monotone person who has a limited range of external emotions. He asked me what I was doing, for which I replied watching the game with friends, then he mentioned he forgot the game was today. This in itself is normal since he’s not a sports guy. He then proceeded to tell me that my uncle had passed.
This was not unexpected since my uncle was fighting cancer in his brain for a few months. There was a time limit for which we all knew but hoped would be extended longer than it had. My uncle was an important person in my life in very specific ways. It’s hard to explain the influence a single person has, but I can sum it up. He had a semi sarcastic and witty since of humor for which was granted to me sometime around the age of 16. This witty sense of humor served me as a safety net through specific times in my life. For the good and the bad that it is, it has defined me.
The second was a friend, for whom I would like to say is a good friend, but sadly the world hasn’t allowed us to get together enough to be more than basic friend/acquaintances. This friend posted some things that made me fear her well being. This wasn’t her normal character. Though the situation has worked through without incident, it made me realize it’s time to start talking, writing, spilling then things that I have help deep down.
These are the catalysts that made me finally realize that there are more important things than for me to sit complacent in life and wait to see what happens.
Today I’m starting my experiment in life…