Ian Hecox

Then it's my choice that this happened.

You know, they didn't befriend this person to inherit something from them.

had an older friend who passed away.

And if they wanted to send their money elsewhere or give it to a relative or something like that, they would have done it.

The fact that this person, a younger person, gave this older person the time of day and also became a true friend of them probably meant a lot.

And they're like, this is the best thing I can do.

They were also clearly of sound mind when they were like, I'm dealing with stage four cancer.

This could be it.

If I go, what do I want to leave behind and to whom?

So taking the guilt outside of it and just looking at it as it is, people don't need to know your situation.

Not everybody in that place is going to go to your home.

Not everyone's going to be looking at your SUV with an eagle eye and being like, I know what this is.

And it doesn't have to...

I don't know, separate thought.

It almost feels like survivor's guilt sometimes, not just in the way of like losing a friend, but like when people do live paycheck to paycheck in the way things are set up now and people are like, I don't have money for whatever.

And now you suddenly have all of this money.

I'm also curious about, they brought up like, oh, I don't know if it's appropriate because they were my direct subordinate.

I feel a little bit less strongly about the power dynamic difference there simply because this person clearly had so much in savings or things to pass on.

I don't know what the job was, but if someone's 67 and has, at the very least, it sounds like half a million dollars to pass on to somebody, it's not like, I guess it could, but it's not like the boss is like, you better work well and leave things to me because I don't know.

Yeah, it's tough.