May 6 in General discussion
No one prepares you to watch your hero's fall
Today is a tough day for me.
Hey {{contact.first_name}},
Who is your hero?
For me it was my parents.
My mom worked multiple jobs to allow us to live a middle class lifestyle.
My dad worked jobs he hated so that we could have the holidays we wanted.
But no one prepares you for the eventual fall of your heros.
About two years before my kids were born my had walked into a hospital because his pacemaker kept firing.
He never walked on his own again.
The day after my second fathers day, he passed away.
For those two years it was a constant back and forth to the hospital, ER visits, and dealing with seeing your hero reduced to speaking like an infant.
The only words he could say were "fe fe" and SHIT!
The ladder always came out really clear.
Now, I am seeing my other hero slowly fall.
My wife, who is a stroke coordinator for the local hospital, noticed signs of a stroke in my mom.
This happened just after my youngest sons Christmas concert.
We called 911 and she was taken to the ER where she was given the same diagnoses as my dad.
While not as bad as my dad, she has become a shell of herself.
She stays with us a few days per week, another benefit of having a business with no boss.
Today was an especially bad day, where we had to take her to the hospital.
As I type this I am waiting on a call from my wife with test results.
Today I feel unmotivated, I feel sad, and tired.
I don't feel like doing anything, and I really haven't
I don't even feel like editing this email, so I won't
In business and in life, some days are just really tough.
Appreciate your heroes before they fall.
I'm only writing this email because I committed to myself that I'd send an email every day in May.
I like to keep commitments and hold myself accountable.
For the rest of the day, I will be looking for things to make me laugh as a way to escape the thought of another hero falling.
Alston
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No one prepares you to watch your hero's fall
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