Live your life like Dave Prifti. This involves seeing the world, finding and wholeheartedly pursuing something you love, learning to laugh at oneself, owning a gorilla suit and wearing it on days other than Halloween. It means demanding effort and offering effort in return, loving your partner without equivocation, building a house, home and family and treating others with dignity and respect without worrying about shallow, meaningless nonsense things like clothes or appearance or standardized test scores. Spend your time offering compassion, building friendships and fighting for justice. Never lie to your friends, unless you’re sitting with them at a poker table. Fall into the embrace of your friends when you need them, and offer your own embrace when it is needed in return. Treat your children as the most precious people on earth. Encourage them to follow their dreams and fill them up with all the love that you can, and then treat other people’s children as if they were your own. Yes, live your life like Dave Prifti. Live with integrity, care for those less fortunate, offer the best of yourself. Leave the world better than you found it.
Andrei Joseph