Embracing 40
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5 min readJun 5, 2021
June 7, 2021, marks 40 years of my existence on this earth. I fully embrace reaching this milestone despite the sobering reality of getting older. As a black man in America, life is fragile and often too short. Yet, I survived to see this day, and I do not take that for granted. From now on, I will apply the lessons I learned and gain more knowledge about this thing we call “life”.