Savour it

Savour it:

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Savour it.

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Those moments of happiness.

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Joy.

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Being around good people.

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Laughing.

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Having fun.

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As someone once said ‘I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days before you’ve actually left them.’

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Life is so fleeting.

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All of it can change so quickly.

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Happened to me this week.

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Started off thinking it was just a normal week.

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A few days later and it all changed.

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My life flipped upside down.

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5.5 years of dedication to a firm are all gone.

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Instead, I’ll remember the moments of fun.

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Biking around Prince Edward County drinking wine.

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Late nights boozing playing liar’s dice.

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Conversations about life after 2 am.

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Closing deals.

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All of those moments are still there.

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As shitty as the situation ended, I can’t ever forget those moments.

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Amplitude will always be a part of me.

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Now and forever.

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Was the place I grew up.

The place I became a man.

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Grew my confidence.

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Understood what I was capable of.

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Became a writer.

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Wrote 1100 blog posts and 2 books.

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Ran a marathon.

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Read several hundred books.

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All personal goals I accomplished during the last few years.

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Aided by having a job I loved.

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It was most of my 20s.

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Especially through Covid.

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The years that felt like days.

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Grinding through.

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Remember the moment we did one of our first deals in the middle of pandemic being outside taking my dog out to pee.

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Remember when one of our first portfolio companies went public and what that IPO process was like.

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Sat in my parent’s dining room for 18 months.

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Moved from an office on Queen and John.

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To one at University in front of Union.

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To the one at Mars we’ve been at the last few years.

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Remember the dinners.

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All the great food.

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Damas.

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Karaoke.

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Playing Molkky, the Finnish game.

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In Prince Edward county during a sunset.

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And on the beach in Vancouver.

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Remember the rooftop party in SF where I knew most people.

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To the first time I ever met my colleagues at the Bloom Burton conference in 2019.

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What a time it was.

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Sad the way it ended.

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Wish I had more closure.

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But sometimes that’s life.

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You can’t control what you did in the past.

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All you can do is accept reality for what it is, learn from it and move on.

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This will be one of those moments.

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As my friend Mario said to me, this is another Canada moment.

The moment in uni when I realized I wasn’t going to residency.

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I will bounce back stronger.

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No doubt about it.

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But I will also miss what I had.

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What I had achieved.

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What I had lived.

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What I had experienced.

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Being a member of Amplitude.

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So thank you Amplitude.

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Thank you to my bosses for taking a chance on me.

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For bringing a young adult back to Canada from Europe.

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For letting me grow into the person I’ve become.

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As difficult as it is right now, I know this is also the universe telling me it’s time to move on.

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It’s time to do something different.

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To add another chapter to the story.

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It was fun while it lasted.

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I’ll remember it forever.

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Thanks for everything.

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Make sure you savour life as it happens.

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