No Need to Aggrandize.

"The secret to a miserable life of quiet screaming desperation?  Work long hard hours at a job you hate, that enables you to buy things you don’t need, only to impress people you don’t really like."

Don’t fall victim to ego-driven ignorance.  It will slowly kill you.  I wasted a good chunk of my life aggrandizing; chasing after titles and statuses that only served to validate my ego.   My only salvation is meeting your mother, but most importantly, having you… 

Dad.

Poison.

A friend of ours had their little cousin pass away just a few days ago due to ecoli and salmonela poisoining.  You hear about it all the time, just never so close to home.  So I find out that he was only a about 7 years old.  

Reminded me that I really need to pay attention to the choices I make… in everything.  I know you can’t predict or expect to stop everything bad thing fron happening.  But the carelessness and things like not taking care of myself.  

Those choices.  Have… well… a direct impact on you.  

It is the first time that I realized that. no matter how cliche or obvious it is.  It doesn’t really hit home until you understand what that really means.  

Makes me look at evrything I’ve done in the past and really rethink about what I do with my time and why I make the decision i do.