Wisdom From The Dearly Departed

Don’t just reminisce on it, put it into practice.

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My best advice often comes from dead people.

Relax, I’m not going full Haley Joel Osmond in The Sixth Sense on you.

I just listen to the words of artists like Tupac Shakur, Chester Bennington, Charles Bukowski, Biggie Smalls, Amy Winehouse and so many others who were taken from us, many of who passed tragically before their time.

I recall conversations with loved ones, who are no longer here with me in the physical, but whose spirits and legacies live on forever, through those conversations I cherish today.

I’m grateful to have had them. Thank God I was there to do so, rather than anywhere else in the world I could’ve been, doing whatever else.

There’s divine wisdom in them, a kind we can’t access through words of the living. A magic we don’t appreciate about someone until they’re gone. A spark of energy in almost everything they ever said to us, from the profound to the mundane, that now feels special — because it is and always was.

It was special at the moment they said it, just like they were and we are.

Every moment and each person we choose to spend it with can have that magic to it, should we make the room for it and not take…