Daniel Priestley

You realize everyone, everyone dies.

Everyone decays.

Everyone gets old.

If you're lucky, you get old.

And if you're unlucky, you don't get old.

So there comes a point where you have to release the idea that you're going to have this happy ending.

You're going to have moments of triumph and moments of disaster.

You're going to lose people.

You're going to have everything taken from you.

It's guaranteed.

Everything is taken from you.

How did that change your perspective, this loved one going through this?

You realise that... Or I realised that the mental timeline of endless decades spreading out ahead, endless amounts of health, endless amounts of relationships, is not...

It's a nice fantasy that keeps us together, but it's not guaranteed.

And then the impact for me is to treasure relationships.

There comes a moment where I don't know if this has ever happened to you yet, but you go, wow, I didn't know that was the last conversation.

you don't realize this, but one of the legacies that you leave behind, not you because you've got this body of work, but one of the legacies that people leave behind is little voice notes that they leave in your phone, they leave in your WhatsApp.

And you listen back to some of these voice notes and you go, wow, I didn't know that was a treasure.

I didn't know that was a special thing.

And this particular person who got impacted with the stroke, he was wonderful at voice notes.