UFC 291 has the best line up of the year, but deeper than that is the fight I came to watch.
My teammate is fighting my high school wrestling coach, the man who inspires me now is fighting the man who inspired me then.
I’m here as a fan first, but this fight is deep and whoever wins I’m gonna be excited for but this is sports it just happens how it goes.
2 days away, let’s fxckin gooooo
You guys will Age . Even With all the sunscreen and skin care . You will get weaker Also . And your skin Will shrivel as well And nobody Will care Ab your clean girl Aesthetic. And then you Will be dead . Just fyi
Alexandre Pantoja is now the UFC's lone Brazilian champion after a 28 day drought without a Brazilian champion, which is the longest stretch without a Brazilian champion in 16 years.
My 5 year old son has the hardest time going to sleep. He usually will get up out of bed at least once to test me.
Tonight it was twice. Exhausted and frustrated, I could feel my patience waning.
“Daddy!”
“COLTON, GO TO BED,” I barked.
“But daddy, I need you.”
And just like that, I melted. There was something about those words that pierced me. “I need you.”
There will come a day sooner than I’d like where he will say those words to me for the last time. Sons do not need their fathers forever, after all.
So, I walked into his room, I got on one knee and I told him how special it was to me that he needs me to put him to sleep every night. I told him he won’t need me like that anymore when he’s a grown man and so it makes tonight special. I feel like he understood. He was fully in the moment with me.
Then I rubbed his back and his head for a few minutes, kissed him, and said goodnight.
He was asleep 5 minutes later.
I realized that in that moment I could have easily lost my temper and scolded him for refusing to go to bed (something I’m guilty of doing before) — and I would have missed out on this absolutely priceless moment with my young son who is growing by the day. And for what?
The older I get, the more I realize how important the seemingly insignificant decisions we make all day every day really are. They compound just like an investment and over years, you could miss out on an unfathomable amount of value in the most priceless asset: time.
Going to try to remember this night.