WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.083 (instrumental music) 00:00:09.393 --> 00:00:10.226 - [Voiceover] Everyone always 00:00:10.226 --> 00:00:13.935 has these grand aspirations about life. 00:00:13.935 --> 00:00:17.158 When I grow up, I'm gonna do this. 00:00:17.158 --> 00:00:19.040 Be this person. 00:00:19.040 --> 00:00:21.634 I'm gonna make a name for myself. 00:00:21.634 --> 00:00:23.558 I'm gonna be someone. 00:00:23.558 --> 00:00:26.391 You know, always these big dreams. 00:00:28.582 --> 00:00:29.832 I was the same. 00:00:30.922 --> 00:00:35.089 I wanted that big job, that big house, that fast car. 00:00:37.032 --> 00:00:37.865 All of it. 00:00:39.638 --> 00:00:41.797 Didn't get it, though. 00:00:41.797 --> 00:00:43.047 Not even close. 00:00:45.932 --> 00:00:48.078 I ended up here instead. 00:00:48.078 --> 00:00:49.995 37 years at this place. 00:00:51.596 --> 00:00:53.846 God, has it been that long? 00:00:56.173 --> 00:00:57.378 First two years I told myself 00:00:57.378 --> 00:01:00.153 it was gonna be a temporary thing. 00:01:00.153 --> 00:01:03.486 I was gonna move on, get that big house. 00:01:04.553 --> 00:01:07.143 It was only for the paycheck. 00:01:07.143 --> 00:01:10.891 Supposed to help the wife and feed the baby. 00:01:10.891 --> 00:01:14.428 But then baby number two came and well, 00:01:14.428 --> 00:01:18.595 two years turned into five and five years turned into 10. 00:01:20.484 --> 00:01:23.177 It's funny how things change. 00:01:23.177 --> 00:01:25.751 How your perspective changes. 00:01:25.751 --> 00:01:27.152 You grow up. 00:01:27.152 --> 00:01:30.054 You get married and have kids. 00:01:30.054 --> 00:01:31.660 You learn that a lot of stuff they told you 00:01:31.660 --> 00:01:34.993 when you were younger was just bullshit. 00:01:36.377 --> 00:01:39.695 Life's always been about lessons and moments. 00:01:39.695 --> 00:01:41.228 That's all life is. 00:01:41.228 --> 00:01:43.868 Just a series of moments. 00:01:43.868 --> 00:01:46.868 Not things, not wants or even needs, 00:01:48.667 --> 00:01:51.500 just simple, honest to God moments 00:01:53.132 --> 00:01:54.909 that hopefully add up to you living 00:01:54.909 --> 00:01:58.298 a decent life and being a good person. 00:01:58.298 --> 00:01:59.823 Really, it's always been little moments 00:01:59.823 --> 00:02:04.186 that you remember over everything else anyways. 00:02:04.186 --> 00:02:06.386 The smile of a loved one, 00:02:06.386 --> 00:02:09.301 the sound of their voice in the morning. 00:02:09.301 --> 00:02:12.793 How easy their hand fit into yours. 00:02:12.793 --> 00:02:15.075 I didn't plan on ending up at this desk. 00:02:15.075 --> 00:02:17.672 But it was where life took me. 00:02:17.672 --> 00:02:19.313 I didn't get the dream. 00:02:19.313 --> 00:02:21.485 I got a life instead. 00:02:21.485 --> 00:02:25.402 And it was more than I could've ever asked for.