every single one of us at some point or another has got the life's not fair

speeches something goes wrong there are plans get spoiled and then some parent or

mentor sits us down is like look life is not always fair sometimes you're owed

something and you don't get it sometimes you feel like things should work out a

certain way but it doesn't work out that way and you just need to adjust because

as a result of my often bitter resentful petty little heart I have been on

the receiving end of that speech a few times and one that stands out to me is one

that I got from my dad when we were middle school high school we were poor not

kind of poor we were really really poor dad wanted to plan a church he had a

good job he's a pastor in Iowa and he felt like God wanted him to move to

Fort Collins Colorado and plan a church and it was never said like oh God told me to do it

he just felt like that was the thing he ought to do I don't know as a kid was in

fourth grade going into fifth grade dad cashed out his savings to plant this church out there

and it didn't really work out very well but he stayed after it for a few years anyway

and I kind of did my wonder years in Fort Collins but we had nothing like we did garage

sale Christmas really we had to cobble things together my parents were and are awesome

and did a great job of making that work well one of the things that my friends got to do

that I did not get to do but that I really wanted to experience with showbiz pizza

and I don't know if all of you remember what showbiz pizza is I think it was the precursor

to Chuck E. Cheese I don't know if there's like a animatronic animal band rivalry between

these two pizza places they had terrible pizza and they had robot animals that played music

for the kids you birthday parties and video games there and like tron and stuff I wanted to go

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