Karl Sherrill

And so I had my oldest son was a senior in high school.

And COVID was taking all that away from him, right?

All the senior celebrations, 13 years of school to get to that senior moment, to have senior breakfast and have mom and dad come over for the breakfast and to have prom and to have dances and to have graduation live and all of those things that he had worked so hard for to watch it be stripped away from him and realize that, yeah, but in the grand scheme of things,

And he's 18 years old.

He's got a lot of life ahead of him.

This is a moment in time.

And I was letting myself look at it and say, that's defining how I feel about the world.

And I felt out of control.

And I was not myself.

Had good friends and mentors in my life who said to me, man, you don't seem like yourself.

What's going on?

And that helped me to step back and say, I've got to take control of the situation.

So the reframing for me was twofold.

One is that my priorities completely shifted.

I have a child who is incredible.

He's one of my heroes in my life.

He has challenges that many people will never face in their life.

And he overcomes them on a regular basis.

And so whether he did his homework or not,

I could care less.