Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - The Danger of Waiting for "Someday" || Powerful Motivational Speeches

Episode Date: September 9, 2026

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frantic and often chaotic journey to get somewhere to, well, define where somewhere is. But I think about that a lot. Our days consist of so much running around that I can easily forget what even my calculated decisions add up to. Why? It's a simple enough question. Perhaps one I could ask more. Why? What's with this whole get comfortable with discomfort thing? Why do I place so much emphasis on the quote-unquote path less traveled?

Which is a term that one of my buddies was recently given me a hard time about using in all my speeches, right? It must mean something to me. It's got me here. But is here better than over there? After all, it's not out of the realm of possibility that I'm the one who's missing the mark. And it's okay to examine that possibility. In fact, that's why I'm here. And I bounced this around in my head as I made my way up the trail

and noticed as I looked around, everything just felt perfect. Have you ever had one of those moments where it just seems surreal? The morning was incredible. I loved the sound of the earth under my feet as I took each step, the chirping of the birds in the early morning, the sun making its way through the trees. and I thought, it's amazing that you can live 20 minutes from this feeling and just never experience it. I guess proof that a decision did not go, to do nothing, is still very much a decision.

And in this case, would have been the less desirable one. I'm glad I went. My phone was in my backpack, and for the first time in a while, I didn't even think about it. My mind was stimulated. My senses were taking in something new, something different, something not my studio or laptop or social media analytics pages. In fact, all that stuff felt kind of trivial now that I was removed from it. And I wondered, why don't I do this more? I thought popped into my head earlier that morning.

I thought, hey, that's a cool idea. I just had to get through that initial pushback. The hesitancy of, well, what's the point? What's the desired outcome of a hike? And after all, this little jaunt is just going to distract you from your work and your progress. But at that moment, I think you have to just shut up. reason for a second. You have to remind yourself that there's value, period. Otherwise, we open the door for rationalizing. We talk ourselves out of some of life's beautiful secret. Sometimes

you have to just go. And as I made my way down this trail further and further, I started to feel better. I felt reassured. Like I had something that I otherwise wouldn't have had, something that's my own. And maybe that is it. Maybe that alone. Maybe that alone. is the reason for everything. To collect those incredible things large and small that we might not have had. After all, isn't life just an accumulation of memories, of experiences that are spread out

like a choose-your-ending children's book? And with so much control over the outcome, I think that matter deserves my attention in order to acquire the good stuff. Whether it's in a different location or context or time in my life, life, I still learn again and again that to get that, we have to leave some things behind. And that's the essence of life.

You usually get out what you put in. And I think about that a lot. I think about the forks in the road I've come across, those same ones, the life-altering decisions. I guess it's only human, you know, walking away from that promising career that I spent my whole life building towards. Every once in a while, sure, I miss the security. Leaving this city and the people that made my life what it was,

it's haunts me from time to time, trading permanence and structure, for the freedom to condense my life's work into a laptop, take it anywhere in the world. Empowerment can be lonely, right? And I guess I can't help that in the midst of those situations, the easy decision always feels like the wrong one.

I've just been pulled by the upside. I gravitate towards this grandiose version of what life could be. be on the mark that I hope to make. And to me, the scariest thing has always been not having the courage to see more, to explore. The phrase, what if has always been my adversary, the monster in the closet, and it's a costly one to slay. Right?

But life is both suffering and infinite beauty. And it's like, you have to choose where you're going to endure pain and why that matters, so that you can climb the mountain that means everything. to you that makes life worth it. In other words, meaningful discomfort now or painful regret later. And I strongly believe that life is about pursuing something meaningful. And even the triviality of a hike wants to remind me of this truth. And I could be at home playing guitar, watching Netflix, relaxing. I mean, that would have been easier. But there's only one way to catch that sunrise over the trees. And that way is not Netflix. All those beautiful views, they require an output of energy to

reach them. They come with fear of something going wrong and in doubt that perhaps the turn you made wasn't the best one and that's okay. But I believe that happiness to be truly fulfilled requires tradeoffs. And with each step, it becomes easier and easier to understand. For the Jimrat, it's the discipline and the belief, knowing that muscles break down so that they can be built up. For the relationship to flourish, it's overcoming disagreement, accommodating the needs of that person that you love, so that they can be the last thing you see before you fall asleep. For the free spirit, it's walking away from what you know in pursuit of something that excites and invigorates, even if you're not entirely sure what it means.

It's about enduring ones so that you can collect. the other. Now, what you choose to endure and what you choose to collect is up to you, but that's what makes life such a beautiful ride. A rollercoaster taking you through lows to reach highs into darkness to see how life changing the light is

when it pushes its way through. Little decisions that become the collage that explodes off the paper when you step back and look. That's what you get back when you make a point to see more. That's why my life,

love affair with the trivial and the mundane lights my path. It's not just a little thing. It's a microcosm of my everything. It's my saying yes to the opportunity that we work so hard to ignore in an effort to avoid inconvenience. But a life worth living is not always convenient. You could even argue at times, it should be inconvenient because the higher the climb, the more we give of ourselves, the more precious the world looks from the top down. And the challenging times, that things will be sacrificed and leave behind, they're not so much a part of the picture as the paint on your palate. That in breaking down, you can now recreate using your own ideals, metrics, and guidelines, a world that you now have the ability to transform. That's why life, to me, is nothing more than color, decisions, nothing more than paint, steps, nothing more than brushstrokes and life.

Well, life is nothing and everything. which as the morning breeze reminds me is a decision that is entirely There's an old saying If you're already in pain If you've already walked through hell You might as well get something out of it Because pain on its own is just suffering

But pain with purpose Well, that's transformation Quick story That I think will help kind of paint this picture. And this is really the light bulb moment for me. I'm like, wow, this is something that it's going to stick with me for a while. And I'd love to pass it along to my audience here.

So a few days ago, I was in the gym, training with Eric, my friend and trainer. And we're doing intervals, kind of like basically lifting weights followed by some exercise that's fast-paced in. So your heart rate's always up. I was doing dumbbell bench press, straight into push-ups. You kind of repeat that cycle, you know, five or six times. And towards the end of that, I'm just completely exhausted. So I pressed the weights, set them down, and then I moved into push-up position, you know, one, two, three, and by, I don't know, six or seven, my arms were screaming to the point

where I'm like, okay, I've reached failure. You know the ship's about to sink, right? And so towards the end, maybe rep eight or nine, I just collapsed, hit the floor. Figured I'd take five seconds, you know, shake it out and come back and finish the push-ups. But Eric was standing right over me, and he looks at me and he says, never do that.

And I kind of looked at him confused, like, what? Because it's not like I'm dogging the workout, right? I'm going as hard as I can here. He just says, never just fall. That's quitting, right? You don't quit. Why would you do that? Never just quit.

And it took me a second to understand. I'm like, what do you mean? I gave everything. But then he explained, just think very practically, Eddie. Think about how much blood you've forced into those muscles, how much energy you've already spent, how hard you've worked to get to this point of failure, this beautiful precipice.

When you know you're failing, you fight all the way down. You fight until you physically cannot move and your chest hits the floor. Because that's the moment where growth is born. That's the place where strength is forged. Never give that up. That's the goal. That's what's precious. And, you know, I've got to be honest, like hearing that,

it made sense right away, but I'd never thought of it. before and like my ego was bruised. I felt embarrassed. How has this never crossed my mind? You know, when I thought I was going all out. I thought that was just the way you do it. You drop, you reset, and you come back. That's why coaches are so valuable. It's why you need mentors. That's why we need people who see things we don't. Because what I thought was the end was really just a missed opportunity. And so now that I've sort of painted this picture in the gym, let's pull it up a level and make it practical. Let's find the bigger picture.

That five-second window doesn't just live in the gym. It lives in my life and your life. It shows up when you hit the wall in your career, when the relationship cracks, when the dream feels too far away. We think collapse, right? It's natural. We think, I'll reset, I'll try again later.

But what if that's the moment to fight? What if the fall itself is the rep, or at least the most important one, right? What if the breakdown is what forges the breakthrough? See, every setback carries within it the raw material for your comeback. Every loss carries the seed of wisdom, but, and here's the kicker, only if you choose to grasp it, to take advantage, to fight all the way down. only if you refuse to drop and walk away. The growth is not just in the success, it's in the struggle.

It's in the awkward moments when you're not polished or composed, when your voice shakes, when your hands tremble. That's the iron being sharpened. That's you becoming who you are meant to be. So if you're listening to this right now, and you feel like life just handed you an L, you know, given the context, fill in the blank. Maybe you failed an exam, lost a job,

maybe someone you trusted let you down, don't just collapse. Don't let yourself because of the tension drop and move on to something else. Don't dismiss it as wasted time. Squeeze everything you can out of it. Extract the lesson and capture the wisdom. Let the circumstance break you down

because in that breaking down is the blueprint for building back stronger. Muscles grow when they tear. Souls grow when they're tested. Lives expand when they are stretched to the brink. And here's the truth. If you're already in pain, if you've already walked through that hell,

why would you leave empty-handed? Why wouldn't you capture the most precious finale? Why would you walk away without the treasure that the suffering contains. Fight when your lungs are screaming. Fight when your body's shaking. Fight when your mind says you have nothing left because the way down the messy, brutal descent to the floor

is the foundation of your resurrection. One day you'll look back and realize the moments that defined you were not the easy victories. They never are. They were the times you chose not to simply fall but to fight every inch of the way. So don't waste the pain.

Don't waste the hell you've endured or walked through. You're already in it. Make something of it. Let the fall become your greatest rep and fight all the way down. Today's episode is brought you by David. So I'm training for 100K next week. And when training volume increases, the way that mine has, nutrition becomes a much bigger part of the equation.

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things I didn't say they still ring in my ears they echo across time but not in the way you might think see they arrive and fall before me at my feet not as regret

but as a reminder that life isn't over they appear rather as an invitation to trans Send past limitation and step into that ever-elusive idea we often refer to as what can be. Did you remember that feeling being a kid? Let's say second grade. Put yourself in a desk looking up to the front of the classroom.

Teacher asks a question. And you know the answer. Well, at least you're pretty sure you know. But there's a seed of doubt. What if it misses the mark? What if it's not quite there? You mull it over and ultimately keep your hands in your pockets in your head down, only for someone else to raise their hand.

The teacher chooses them, they answer the question. They give the same answer you were going to give. Not only correct, but wow, excellent, nailed it. That was a tough one too. Round of applause. Good job, student X. Student X, with possessing both the right answer and the courage to be wrong, if that's the result fate were to cast upon him.

And the thought, it replays in your mind. It's like, I was going to say that. I knew that. And then suddenly there's a shift. Student X's response gets quieter and quieter. It fades into the background. What was said is no longer relevant. All you can hear now are the jarring, droning echoes dispersed from the abyss your nothingness created.

Your silence screams so loud that it penetrates every ounce of your being. The question was trivial. The response didn't matter. It was never about that, was it. It was rather a microcosm of the crossroads we face in life over and over again, way beyond second grade. The question, do we act and risk the fall in exchange for the mountaintop, or do we pause, hesitate, and invite into our world a silence so excruciating it cannot be outrun? A silence that covers every corner of your reality, a silence that moves where you move and goes where you go. It lives until you find the courage to speak.

Every once in a while, it's beyond valuable to be reminded that life is finite. It doesn't seem like it right now. It doesn't seem like it from your desk. or out the car window as you drive your kids to school. It doesn't seem like it in traffic. It doesn't seem like it in the wait room by yourself or putting your thoughts to paper at the kitchen table before the rest of the world wakes up.

But none of this, my friends, is here to stay. It all goes. Every single thing. And so here's the switch I'm advocating, be made. In soccer and in hockey. When a team's losing by one very late in the second half or third period, they often pull the goalie, leaving their own net wide open. How vulnerable.

But in doing so, they simultaneously increase their odds to score, because the goalie now acts as another attacker. Again, it is a gamble, a gamble for sure. but down by one, when time is running out, who cares? It gives you a chance. And I don't see how life is any different. We're all here for a length of time that equates to a blink of an eye. We are a raindrop in a thunderstorm.

The siren is about to sound. The whistle is about to blow. In a million years, why would you? Do not pull the goalie. Why would you sit there in a self-created silence wondering what life could have looked like if only you gave more? This is the one and only opportunity to pour all of yourself into something before something becomes nothing and the march of time leaves you in the rear view. Yeah, maybe you win and maybe you don't. With the ticking clocks, they're playing a different game altogether, and to win yours, you must

understand theirs. Silence is louder than a swing and a miss. It's louder than a courageous soul who misjudges an approach and smashes into the ground. It's louder than the lessons life graciously hands out to those willing to step into the belly of the beast. is loud. So go scream your truth unto the world.

Go make your mark. No, not for vanity. But because of the same question previously alluded to, why not? As far as I'm concerned, odds don't dictate reality as much as they shape perspective. You,

you shouldn't be here. The statistical likelihood is just too small. Your existence has attached to it almost impossible odds, yet here you are. And you have the audacity given this info to sit there in silence. You're delusional, selfish, wasteful enough to not go, to not try, to not unpack the gift at your feet and make your way into the world. My friend, your silence. My friend, your silence. screams. So go.

Leave in your wake a trail of courage that screams louder. Leave behind you a message to the world that you weren't given much time. No, not much time at all. But you were given enough time. Your snapshot in the movie of eternity. Your verse in the movie of eternity. great play of life, your chapter in the book of existence, it will read like the miracle that it is.

Oh, miracle, that's a big word. That's a lot of pressure. But no, it's not about the magnitude of your decision making. It's about walking through those little doors in life that terrify you. It's about saying yes to those opportunities that put knots in your soul. stomach and cause your hands to shake. It's about sharing your voice, delivering your thoughts, even when you don't know how they'll be received. It's walking the path you know in your soul you need to be walking. The silence is deafening.

So speak into that void. Make something you can call your own. Chip away at the marble until what's precious. remains. So be louder than the dissenting voices. Be louder than the ticking clocks. Be louder than the setting sun. Be so loud that even if for a brief, single moment in time, the world knew you were here. I was late. The kind of late where you're pacing, you're pacing, your heart racing, you're running around, kind of muttering under your breath. And I'm looking everywhere. Under couch pillows, in the pocket of a jacket I haven't worn in weeks, crawling around under the

desk, tossing shoes out of the closet. Whole apartment's a mess, right? In the one thing I need, my keys, they are nowhere to be found. It's pretty comical. My girlfriend who was standing outside of the apartment waiting as I ran back in to find them. She finally walks in and takes two steps into the apartment, looks to her right, and points right to the keys hanging by the door. There they are, there they always were right where they should be. I had torn apart the entire room looking for something that was right in front of me. Why? Because I suspected them to be everywhere, but there.

So we had a quick laugh. I shook my head, grabbed the keys, walked out the door. But it stuck with me. Kind of put it in my back pocket, metaphorically, and said, I'm going to come back to it because there's more. I think that moment was more than just forgetfulness. I think it's a mirror to how we often live. How many times do we do this in our lives? Well, I won't speak for you, but I can say personally quite a bit.

searching, striving, exhausting myself, thinking the solution has to be hidden in some complex system, some new secret answers out there, it just needs to be found, when the truth is, often, the thing we need is already hanging right there on the rack. I mean, think about it, we chase supplements, expensive gadgets, miracle routines, when sometimes what do we need to do, stretch? hydrate, drink more water, electrolytes, improve our sleep,

meditate, right, get the cortisol down. The simplest solutions can be the most transformative. We carry stress like it's welded to our shoulders. We search endlessly for ways to escape it, but the key just might be a 10-minute walk outside. Or a phone call to a friend, right? That moment of silence, just closing your eyes and breathing deeply to regain composure in what seems like a frantic day.

We overlook the obvious because we convince ourselves the answers have to be hard. They have to be hidden. But they don't. I remember training injuries that wouldn't go away, right? I would scroll through articles, watch videos, chase down every advanced rehab technique. Then one day a coach asked me, do you stretch? Do you drink enough water? Right? That's simple. It's like, yeah, I stretch. Yeah, well, what does stretching mean? Do you do it for a half hour? Do you do it daily? Are you working on your mobility? And I'm like, mobility. No, I run. That's pretty mobile. But it was just ignorance. That's half the battle. If you're going to run every day, if you're going to live weights, you need to be stretching your hip flexors and doing the things that keep you in the game. And so I started to work on that and the progress came back.

The keys were on the rack the whole time. What was needed wasn't a miracle. It was doing the foundational things that overlooked. When I've felt seasons of sadness, I've told myself stories about how complex the solution must be. I need to tear it down, reinvent everything, overhaul my life. Then I remember, have I been connecting with people?

Have I been getting out, laughing, sharing life? Seems obvious, seems intuitive. But when you're immersed in something you're building, for me, that seems to be the first thing that I let go of. And I pay for that. I pay a steep price. Often the quickest way out of a fog is through community, through presence. We know this.

We just forget. So that makes you ask why. You know, why do we miss us right in front of us? Well, my instinct is that our minds want complexity. We equate complicated with valuable. We think the solution to feeling stuck must be fill in the blank, a new career, a massive transformation, a move across the country. Sometimes, sure, that's right on, depending on the context. But other times, let's even go as far as to say most times, the next step is simply to start.

It's to open the laptop and write one sentence or put on running shoes and jog around the block. It's to read 15 pages of a book, right? Something to gain momentum. The extraordinary is built on the ordinary. Never forget that. It is repetition of very doable, commonplace things. The masterwork is built on brushstrokes. The victory is built on small, often obvious choices,

repeated again and again and again. But we overlook those because they're not glamorous. They don't feel profound. They feel, well, ordinary. And yet, my friends, ordinary is where the keys hang. So if you take anything from this, remember, life is not always about searching harder. Sometimes it's about seeing clear. The keys to your growth, your healing, your peace,

they might not be hidden under the couch cushion. of complexity. You might be right in front of you, waiting for you to notice, waiting for you to grab them and walk through the door. So the next time you feel lost, make sure you're looking at the Q-Rack.

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Because there's this equilibrium we have to create and maintain as we navigate our day-to-day lives. And no one addresses this. In my mind, better than Thoreau in Walden, when he states, if you've built your castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That's where they should be. Now put foundations under them. He addresses the very nature of creation, of dreaming, right? He says, you know, there's an element of idealism and aspiration,

but you have to marry that with pragmatism. with pragmatism. Keep your head. Focus on the mountaintop. Dream. Aspire. Imagine what life could be. But don't spend your day in thought.

Build the foundations. Put the foundations under that castle in the air by doing, by stepping, by every day creating one more stare in the same. staircase that will bring that new reality into existence. Over the years, I've talked a lot about Stephen Pressfield's book, The War of Art. Really, the impact it's had on me, I think for good reason. You know, personally, I tend to gravitate away from structure. In fact, unless I'm being deliberate and cognizant of how I'm planning my day, things. can get messy pretty quickly.

So I have to really be intentional about that. And there were times in 2014, 2015, 2016, where, you know, I had visions of building something big and meaningful and making an impact on the world. And I'd sit down to build it, whether it's write a speech, create a video or episode. In that particular day, I would feel like, You know, I just don't feel inspired.

I wish I did. But, hey, can't force creativity. I'd close my laptop, I'd get up, and I'd move on. And it wasn't until I read Pressfield's book that I understood, that's what every writer, speaker, creator, builder deals with. It's on us to say, no, I'm setting this timer for 90 minutes. I'm going to show up. I'm going to pour my thoughts out,

pour my heart and soul into this project. And if something comes from it, amazing. If it doesn't, that's okay. But over a long period of time, that's how consistency is established. That's the only way to create that necessary compounding that actually supports my goals and big picture and long-term vision. That dedicated effort is,

an example of putting foundations under the castle in the air. I don't think we do this intentionally, but there's often a misalignment between what we say we want and how we spend our time, right, how we live our lives. And just being honest is challenging to see these inconsistencies in ourselves. They sort of hide within our day-to-day lives. Which is why that simple alignment exercise of asking, what do I want? And is what I'm doing bringing that to life? So critical. It's why Thoreau's question so deeply resonates.

I'm saying this now, and I'll say it forever, the greatest changes in our lives will never be a product of some huge, complex, complicated series of moves. It won't be 4D chess. calculus, secret codes and strategies. It's like, no, critical change starts with some simple adjustments. Usually right at your feet, right? It's getting up earlier.

It's cutting something out. Adding a new activity for 20 minutes a day. These are the things that are life-changing. Doing the correct things simply and consistently. The old head in the clouds and feet on the ground adage. Dream like your life depends on. Think as big as you can. Have your eyes fixated on mountaintops.

Just make sure that your feet are simultaneously moving, that one step at a time you are going that way. Sometimes building those foundations requires more deliberate action added to the day to day. Sometimes it means cutting away the outliers and excesses of our day to day. It means fully immersing yourself in what remains. In Elon Musk's most recent biography by Isaacson, a particular idea stood out to me. And Elon is a man who is literally seeking to invest in and create a world above the cloud.

He said something, and I'm paraphrasing, like, We need to free ourselves from the in-case mindset. We have so much excess just in case we need it. And what happens is this dilutes one's capability and impacts the mission or goal. In fact, he said, if you're not removing so much that you essentially go, oops, and end up putting 10% of what you took out back in,

then you're not taking out enough. It creates clarity. It allows you to best structurally support your vision, the mission to build above the clouds beyond what you currently know, what currently exists. This is the same superpower of being deliberate that Thoreau champions that he advocates for. Just in a different context.

It is the greatest dichotomy in human existence. Maintaining a vision while building the vision. Having a dream while supporting that dream, knowing what the masterpiece will look like is not enough. Similarly, recklessly throwing brushstrokes against a canvas is not enough. These two things don't stand on their own. So what if you today were able to effectively marry the two? What if you believed in yourself enough to create a vision and every single day chip away

until you're staring directly at it? What if you got to know yourself at a deeper level, truly understanding what mattered to you? What you wanted to build most, you looked in the mirror, believed it, and then committed to its creation. Step by step, brick by brick, moment by moment. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be.

Now put foundations under them. The sands of time may have buried you, as they'll bury us all. But in my mind you live on, in my mind there you are smiling the way you used to lighting up the room the way you once did

you even laugh at my jokes when no one else does which I'm sure is not easy for even the memory of you to do why did the scarecrow win an award well because he was outstanding in his field obviously see that's what we're working with here

Or maybe that is up your alley. I'm not sure I was too young to remember. But I do remember piling in the car and going to the button store. That's what you'd tell us. Remember? Okay, we'd say, just excited to be there. Then you'd pull up to four seasons ice cream and it would be like Christmas in July. You made a lot of people feel like Christmas in July.

Maybe you were Christmas in July. I talk about you a lot, maybe too much. Sometimes people say I remind them of you. And I always take that as a compliment because in my mind you were perfect. But I've gotten older. And I know now that you couldn't have been perfect. You were human. It's so odd growing up and learning that even

the people you look up to the most in life are flawed. It's weird learning that not even your parents, the king and queen of your world, have all the answers. Nah, we're all just trying to figure this damn thing out, aren't we? We think we're more sophisticated than cavemen dancing around the fire 40,000 years ago, but sometimes I wonder. Oh, I moved to Arizona. I lived down the the street from Aunt Julie. It's fun to be able to see her. You know, she tells me stories about you guys as kids, how you like to push the envelope, you'd always get into trouble, but it would always be this sort of calculated trouble. Like even when the wheels were falling off the wagon, you somehow stayed in control. I'm not sure that's the best way to describe it, but it's what I've

got. She mentions how she always felt safe with you. And I think that's sort of cool. Like what's more beautiful than being the source of someone's safety? What's more meaningful than putting someone at ease? Sometimes I wonder what you'd say about where I am now, what I'd do for a living. I even wonder if you'd be disappointed that I never went into the military. That may be one of my true regrets. At least four years, you know, but I'm planning to help give back in other ways. It's not so much that I'm crazy. your approval, although subconsciously is certainly possible. It feels more so I wonder how I'd measure up.

I went to Mass Maritime Academy a few years back and spoke to the cadets in the field across from the statue of you when mom, dad, Nana, everyone was there. I shared a few lessons you taught me when I was younger. I did the same thing to a room full of state police in Idaho. It always seems to connect. I think because it's just real. I don't feel the need to be anything

or play a role or be a character. Just a mere messenger. That's all. A distributor of value. And there's something precious about that. Oh, a lot of people know the phrase you're always stronger than you think you are because of you, Grimson.

I told the story in around 2015 in one of my videos and it really resonated with people. It's great perspective. I'll never forget you being sick and telling Nana not to worry, that the tumor was no big deal, that it was, quote, all in your head. Okay, maybe I do get the dad jokes from you.

But that blows me away. Because another thing I've learned over the years is that life is hard. It can be so hard. But you, even in your toughest moments, You never made it about yourself, ever. In fact, you'd go out of your way with humor and compassion and love to make sure those around you didn't feel your pain.

Long story short, I won't get into it now. But because societally, we sort of lost our way for a few years, we're re-learning what basic things are, masculinity being one of them. It's everywhere, online and public discourse. And every time it comes up, My mind goes right to how you made us feel. I think about you and dad putting family first.

Not telling, but leading. Always. Being a rock in our lives. Anyway, I won't take up too much of your time. I'm sure you're sailing the ocean blue up there. Actually, this wasn't even supposed to be a note to you. I was planning to write about little, hinges, about how there are some small, frictionless things we can do in life that make a monumental

difference. Perhaps even things we wouldn't anticipate being as powerful as they are. And this morning I was having some coffee before the sun came up, you know, that little stretch of time between 4.30 and 6.30. How it's so beautiful anticipating the full day to come, it's so quiet. I started thinking that I should enjoy it, because that sun will ultimately set as your son has. My story will be no different. But your son, I remember its warmth on my skin.

I remember how it illuminated even the darkest of rooms. I remember its rays dancing overhead, reminding us of your presence. Perhaps recalling that warmth is my little hinge, my engine, my why. And I'll do my best to pass it along, to help others feel it. I think most importantly to remind them that they have that same light within them. Entire worlds within them, in fact. And so, Gramps, goodbye for now and happy sailing. I'm sure I'll see you again.

where the ocean and the sky intersect. Don't you wish you could just hit skip on the worst parts of your life? You know the same way you can skip an ad? I get it. I'm Siyaya and I live in Ice Cove. I've made some questionable decisions that didn't end up the way I planned.

And today I'm still figuring it out. Somehow things usually get worse before they get better. Apparently that's how I roll. So bundle up and come along for the bumpy ride. Stream a new episode of North of North Tuesdays on CBC Gem.