Stu Burguiere

Making a name for myself was the point.

It was the mission.

And in my twenties and in my teens, I put that above absolutely everything else.

And I leased happiness or what I thought happiness was until the leases expired.

And I was left with nothing except wasted time and wrong answers because I

Of the men sitting in this room, Jeffy, Stu, Pat, I know what matters.

Family, real friends.

How much you can share with somebody.

How hard you try to uplift others.

And how many you can encourage while you can.

My dad used to say, if you're lucky, son, you will have one or two friends.

Really good friends in your life will stay through the good times and the bad and will be there for all of it.

It's taken me a lifetime to have these friends.

You don't earn these friends.

They just appear.

And I have been blessed in the second phase of my life to have friends I don't deserve, but I do cherish.

For those of you who are younger, who really don't know what life is all about yet, this is what life is all about.

good people you travel with good people you share when you have nothing good people who lift you when you when you just don't think you can stand it another day that encourage you to keep going

to ignore the stones that are being thrown your way and to follow what you believe you hear from God to do, even when the friends can't see it themselves.

If I had my life to do all over again, if I just had the last 30 years to do all over again, it wouldn't change much.