Kobe Bryant had everything. Pretty Woman. Four girls. The last of them was born just 7 months ago. For 20 years he played for him in the best league in the world. Years translated into 500 million, half a billion. One of the richest athletes of all. With houses, cars, planes and sea boats.
At 18 he entered the league, at 38 he left it, at 41 he died. And for just three years, he could only enjoy everything he really earned. He devoted his entire life to the game, when he was a kid he rolled socks and threw in no-frills shots at all, the socks were the ball and the tin was the basket. He was a huge workaholic, the hard work flowed through his blood, and of all Kobe was the first to go to training and the last to go from there too. In every workout, he would throw thousands of stray shots along the way in the dark just to always know where the basket was about.
And he threw, threw and threw until he became a legend in the yellow team town. Gianna ("Gigi"), his 13-year-old daughter, went with him to every single yellow team game, they sat together in the front row, Gigi was an actress herself and Kobe would whisper in her ear The secrets of the game and she listened. Whenever the big screen in the courtroom presented her father, she heard every man in the world admire the omnipotent man sitting next to her, her father, Gigi also admired him, as an actor, as a father, but mostly admired him as a human being.
Kobe Bryant couldn't be hated because he couldn't be loved. And in case you were looking for more proof of how life is a gift, I'm the happiest in the world to tell you that you found it up close because beloved Kobe Bryant died, the man I thought would live forever and probably forever for him is 41 years old. He didn't even get to say goodbye to his partner for life or his 7-month-old home, how much he would like and it just shows us that we have to live our every day in the world as if it is the last day of all. Don't just live once, it's a lie, just die once and live life every day again, it's order and it's okay to ask forgiveness, say "I love you" or thank you, so please live without fear. Because it is impossible to know when we will take our last breaths and when that happens, you do not want there to be living souls that die, just because of the doubts we have been left behind.
R.I.P