My Eulogy

DRU was an incredible man who’s love for his family was only matched by his ability to find humor in any situation and bring a smile and a chuckle to all he met. As an accomplished best-selling author DRU found a way to translate his love of impacting people and he weaponized it. He had such a way with words that they seemed to leap right off the page and into your imagination, so anything he wrote, you not only saw it, but you also believed it. Using this remarkable talent DRU modernized the Digital Marketing industry to heights that were unimaginable back when he first began. He always made himself available to not only mentor those with a true want but also to receive mentorship. He was truly a lifelong student and was always seeking new knowledge so that he could share it with others. It is rumored that DRU’s library is in a hidden underground bunker spanning the length of a football field and for each book he read, he has a notebook next to it, equally as thick, with his take-aways and thoughts.

To call DRU and intellectual would not do him justice, nor would labeling him a loving man. He had a genuine love for those around him. Atop that list were his 4 daughters and if they ever needed a mountain moved, you can be assured you would find DRU on that mountain, devising his plan to move it. He put this effort into everything he did and never wanted anything in return but a smile. It would be difficult to summarize DRU in a single word so hopefully his name will live on as a verb that will be defined as doing something selflessly, energetically, with great intelligence, and from the heart.

We can all DRU this!

Explanation

I read a book once, please forgive me for not remembering the title of this book. The point of the book was to change your mindset into a way that you would view your life as more of a book, or a story. And since it’s your life, you are the author, and it can be written in whatever way you’d like it to be. If you’ve never heard the “dash” concept, I’ll explain it and then tell you how it relates into my Eulogy.

There are two dates that are going to be on your head stone. The day you were born, and the day you died, or for the sake of the book symbolism, the beginning and the end. In between those two dates, is a dash. This dash represents your life and everything you did between those two dates.

We all know our first date and are currently living our dash. Not knowing the date of your death doesn’t mean you can’t dictate how the story ends. With this in mind, writing my Eulogy empowers me to have the story end the way I want it to. It doesn’t even have to be how my life is now, just how I want it to be when that last date is etched onto my headstone. I’ve got the rest of my dash to make it true.