uncle ricky

He was told that

He was going to die at 33

And the one thing that I

Learned from him was to

Live your life and

Do everything that you can

And enjoy every moment of it because

Well we all knew we're gonna die someday

But he really knew he was gonna die someday

And so he did um

He had two wonderful children

And uh

I remember when he thought

He was teaching them how to swim

And he just threw them in the water

And I was like Ricky oh my god

You just threw them in the water

And he said they'll figure it out

They gonna swim, watch

Watch, just look at them

They're gonna swim and

Sure enough, they did

Um

And that was kinda his attitude towards life

Sink or swim

Do whatever you can

So he went on to work

For the government

Um

And uh I got him in the government

He worked for health, education and welfare

For most of his adult life

And retired but that didn't stop him

From partying and living life to the fullest

Um

That was the

The one thing that I

That I really learned from

Him is to not wait

If there's something that you

Want to do out of life

You have to plan for it

And you have to go get it

Um because it's not

It's not gonna come to you

And um

Took me a long time to figure that out

But that's why um

I didn't finish college

I did try to get the money but

I knew my mom didn't have

A lot of money so

But um

I still tried but I knew

I often wondered how hard did I really try

But it was the same year that he died

My senior year