This year I turned 44, and wow, what an entrance into the double digits in the upward 40s group. I have been quite enthralled in “life,” and for me, that looks like chasing my purpose (God teaching me), loving my wife (learning how to be in partnership), and raising secure kids (nurturing my inner child), all simultaneously. While getting older is fantastic for many reasons, it is also sobering; yet we are born knowing that life is precious and should be treated as such. The problem is that by the time we genuinely understand that sentiment, life has lovingly grabbed us in a choke hold, smashed all our unfortunate realities in our faces, and we are grasping for pieces of ourselves that we have gathered through just living ‘life”.