Matthew McConaughey

Not skip it, not throw it to the side, not deny it, which I'd love to talk about that here sometimes too, but the value of denial sometimes.

Yeah.

But how quickly do we...

once something's inevitable, go, okay, any mind and heart time I'm spending about going, no, I can't believe that happened.

No, did that really happen?

Anytime we spend it trying to deny what has already happened, that seems to me to be, I'm not sure the value of that time.

So if there's any trick, I would say, once you know something's inevitable, even though how painful it is or how awesome it is,

Start getting relative with that.

And in the relativity is seeing there's a gift here.

And if I realize that gift, I'm honoring.

Now I'm on to building up the beautiful passage of my father leaving this life.

Now I'm on the march to go, yes, let's let the legacy, let this become omnipresent.

Let him live through me.

Let me become more him.

Oh, I think there's value to denial if you really commit to it.

I get this from my mother.

Okay.

And my mom does it to an extent that I'm like,

Mom, do you have any consideration or context of situations?

And she does.