The Game of Life.

He awoke on a daily basis to be the father people could only dream about having.  A hard worker and someone that everyone looked up to, especially his own daughter.  The man was a rather big dude in his prime.  Six foot two and two hundred fifty pounds.  The weight was muscle weight and not that chubby beer belly type of weight.  The funniest part about him is that he wore bandannas just like Hulk Hogan did in the eighties which made him look identical to Hogan, as well.  Children in the school would come out and ask his daughter if her dad was a professional wrestler.  She would giggle and become embarrassed.  He would egg all the children on by dressing in parachute pants, bandana and a ripped shirt like Hogan and show up to pick his daughter up.  The children loved it.  Any reaction of smiles really got him off.
He always talks about how the smile on children’s faces made his day as much as it made theirs.  That is a inspiring way to look at life.  Always putting someone else first to an extent.  You always get what you put in and he put in a lot and in return had a lot.  At that point in time in his life he had a great wife, a wonderful daughter, and nice things including house, job, and vehicles.  Good things come to people who wait and he waited long enough.  He struggled his whole life and worked hard and his dues had finally been paid.  Life was on the up and up.  It is the little things in life which make the greatest impact and he took advantage of that saying.
His daughter came home from school one day and was incredibly embarrassed.  As all the kids peered out the small little rectangle windows of the bus and looked into the front yard they couldn’t believe their eyes.  The lawn had been cut in a special way for his daughter.  He mowed a large heart with her initials mowed in it.  He knew all his daughters friends and all the kids on the bus would talk about how cool he was and elders would think he loved his daughter to the max.  He got his point across to his now embarrassed daughter.  Most children would be spoiled to have these things happen.  To be shown love.
His entire life came crumbling down almost instantly.  It started with the loss of his job.  He had no problem finding another but nor making the same kind of money.  Something had to give and something’s went unpaid.  The worse thing is that he let go of more then he should.  Two weeks before they were having their house foreclosed on, his wife found out through the paper and not from him.  He was losing it all.  His wife and daughter moved out, he lost his house, one of the cars, and everything in the house;  This was all in the matter of a month or two.  It doesn’t take long to lose everything but it takes so long to get things.
The point of this story is that good things come to good people.  You get what you put in.  Is there something everyone didn’t know that explains what happened.  Until this day no one knows.  We all ask repeatedly but get the same answer.  A shrug and a tear.  It doesn’t matter how big you are or how great of a parent you are it only takes one mistake to lose your entire life without losing your life. Life can throw curve balls at anytime and no matter how prepared you are for them you just never know which curve they may make.  Every curve ball is different and you cannot prepare for them all.  Just do your best in life and make every moment count.