 All right guys, all right guys, what is going on today's video is it's not gonna be long I Just need to talk about this man. I need to talk about it. It's gonna be an episode of making gains I don't even know what day it is. It doesn't even matter this video certainly not about making gains. It's not about training It's not about fucking food or anything like that Recently guys recently a couple of my Friends not close friends, but they are friends definitely more than acquaintances It's it's it's unbelievable really Two different people One guy is 30 years old. I know him from the gym Another guy is 26 and I know him from a rugby team Within one month of each other they both got diagnosed with brain tumors These guys are my age. Okay Completely random They're both healthy. They both eat well one of them obviously goes to the gym one of them trains, you know trains with me at rugby and Completely at random they they they both Managed to unfortunately get diagnosed with brain tumors now One of my friends the one that I saw at the gym I noticed that he had he'd been away for about two or three months, and I didn't know why you know I he was he was going great guns before he went in fact We were always talking about how he was um, you know getting leaner and finally getting in the shape He's always wanted to be in and and it was great. You know, I always gave him support He gave me support and then a couple of weeks ago I saw him for the first time in ages and you know, I went up to him like the smiley guy I am usually, you know, we're always joking around and I went up to him. I said hey, bro, where you been? And he turned to me and he wasn't smiling And I noticed that half of his face was drooping down And what had happened that he had eventually told me three months ago when I'd seen him last he Suffered from headaches. He was suffering from I Can't recall. I can't recall. Anyways, he was suffering from a few things that were you know, pretty random weird he went to the doctor and you know Test staff to scan after tests. They found that he had quite a large tumor on the left side of his brain And so he went down to Adelaide. Alice Springs doesn't have a Hospital big enough or good enough to you know deal with brain surgery So he went down to Adelaide. They perform the the the operation they Took out the tumor, but in doing so they they must have nicked some nerves in his face and basically half of his face is You know, it's not working And it's taken him three months To get the courage and to get you know the the confidence to to start going back to the gym the place that he loves You know, this was his this was his passion. This was everything to him and You know and a life event like that can just completely fuck it all up Very similar story to you know, and I just feel sorry for him. What can I say? What can I say? I said to a man fuck, you know, what can I say? He said that it's not that not all hope is lost He may get function back in his face Slowly, but it may take years may take months, you know, he doesn't know so he he's on the way out, but basically, I mean Something like that just really hits home that You just got to take every day In good health as a blessing Because it really is a blessing and you don't realize how important your health is until it's taken away It's just like, you know, when you're when you're feeling sick, you've got a stomach ache. You're nauseous, right? When you finally do throw up and that stomach ache goes away at least for a little bit Don't you feel so good don't you feel so appreciative just to have no stomach ache And we wake up every single morning with no stomach ache Well, most of us do except for you when you're pregnant But we wake up each morning no headache no stomach ache and we don't appreciate it until it happens to us And then we finally do get better and then we're like fuck. Thank God that's over But at the end of the day guys every single day that we wake up that we're above the ground You know that we feel in good health. I feel good right now, you know, I could complain about a few things But really I feel fine. I feel good I don't have a fucking brain tumor and I don't have half of my face that is not working That's what it comes down to and Secondly my other mate Alex Probably a better friend of mine. I just saw a and it's funny, you know things like this happen to people and they just disappear They don't tell anyone, you know It's it's I wouldn't know how to approach telling people if something bad happened to me I'm more concerned about helping other people, you know I would never sort of want to put myself in that position that vulnerable position or at least I'd feel vulnerable Where you know people were pitting on me and sympathizing with me and stuff I really don't know how I'd go through it. And so, you know, these guys They're battling on man. They're soldiers and and I really really Respect them for that. So my other mate Alex similar story. He started having symptoms headaches You know very very lethargic things like that went down to Adelaide got scans done once again boom brain tumor aged fucking 26 Um, he hasn't had a surgery yet So he's back up in Alice Springs, but he's had he's had to stop work because his misses has had to stop work um, and basically there's a go fund me uh Website that's been, you know raised Well, that's been created to raise money for these guys because they both aren't working now um They've got bills. They've got rent, you know, and it's it's It's sad. It really is sad. Let's be fucking real right now I could have I could have cancer growing in me. I could You could never do enough scans or enough tests to You know cover all your bases to know that nothing's going wrong with you There may be so that goes back to what I said before, you know every day that you're feeling good Don't take it for granted Don't take it for granted man. Each one of these breasts that we're breathing clearly Great air, you know It's uh, it's precious man. It's fucking precious and Yeah That's it I don't know what else to say. I just had to I had to tell someone because I've had two friends Get brain tumors Out of absolutely nowhere and had their their lives turned completely upside down and You'd be a real fuck with to not Imagine at least at some point. What would that be like? If it happened to me And if you can think about those kind of things And and and and tell yourself, you know and tell yourself internally, you know. Yes. Okay. I know I should be Appreciating life more. I should be, you know Concentrating on my health more at least and just jog your memory a little bit, you know At least think about the subject for a little bit because Fuck it's scary man. It's fucking scary like Is it cell phones? Is it phones? Is it all these all these electronics? Is it staring at the screens too long? You know, what is it? Just seems too weird to be To be a coincidence so What I do want to say is Good luck to both of these fellas. I don't know if either of them will ever see this video but You know, you've really affected me In a good way, you know, it's it's it's a good way I'm getting a positive out of your guy's negative. Okay. I I'm definitely getting a sort of a Rethink and a revaluation on on life and what's important and what I should appreciate so Good luck fellas Alice Springs is behind you So is my youtube channel So We'll get there Hit up man. Hit up. Peace