Life

This will probably come as a shock to most who know me best, but sports are not the only thing in life worth writing/talking about, although this will probably be the last non-sports post I make.  My grandfather recently died and he was my first close family member to pass away and I wasn't sure how I was going to take it.  It's definitely one of the saddest things in the world to see your family in tears over someone that everyone was so close with and especially someone who was such a great man like my grandfather was.

He hasn't been the same since about the late 90's, but if there was one thing I can take from him it is this: he always made sure I knew life is not long at all and you shouldn't waste a day of it.  He wanted us, his family, to know that he wouldn't be around forever and life will still go on.  It just may have hit me at age 23, that maybe I have been taking some things for granted.  You should wake up everyday with a smile on your face for the simple fact that you get to live to see another day.  I definitely have not held up my end of the bargain with that one, but it is quickly going to change.  

You never know what you might discover, who you could meet, what you could see in one of the thousands of days that you will spend on earth. My grandpa lived just shy of 30,000 days and if there was one person who didn't waste a day on this planet, it was him.  He was a teacher, an author, a minor league pitcher, an historian, a WWII veteran, a father, a husband and most importantly one of the kindest individuals you will ever meet.  So, for those of you who took the time to read this post, please remember that living is an incredible gift in and of itself.