David Senra

May it rest in peace.

And I walked into Boat Club and the story of meeting Lauren, my wife, was that was my first night in Notre Dame, the first bar I walked into, and she was the first girl that I talked to.

And that is a crazy stroke of divine luck or something.

But it was lucky because I was 19 when I met her.

She was 20.

And, you know, we've been together and married and have kids ever since.

And the true answer to kindness is her, because for 20 years now, we just crossed the point of our lives where I've been with her more than I haven't in my life, which is so crazy.

I'm not young anymore.

I'm 40, but not old.

And to have been with her for more than half my life and to have grown up as an adult, whatever they say, your prefrontal cortex like matures when you're 25 or something.

So like six years with her where I didn't even have a fully developed brain.

it's by far the number one blessing is that she uh yeah we created this we have created this life together in a way that i i i mean the thousand things that 10 000 things that she's done that add up to that 20 years is like the very clear true answer um tim tragically died very young um

which was awful, but I think about him all the time because without him, none of this would have happened and this life wouldn't exist.

And so I love this story because, and I love this question, because

whole lives are downstream of simple, quick acts of kindness.

And without Tim, my life doesn't look anything like what it looks like today.

All the things I care the most about don't exist, probably.

And so I remind myself of that every day, which is why I love asking this question.

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