It's been a tough time for FP over the past while. In less than 15 months, he's lost two close friends to varying types of cancer. While I've not had a chance to speak to him about it recently, I think it's hit him quite hard. His two friends were close in age to us, so have died fairly young. I may have posted about one friend a few times. S met him in the pub one night and thought he was great, and still talks about that night out, even now though it must be well over five years ago. KfW2 met him and was seemingly oblivious to the fact he was chatting her up for almost an hour.
He did hint a few nights about taking time to smell the roses. Well, he didn't use that exact phrase, he did kinda suggest that he might think about doing fun stuff more often. We were discussing going to a Champions League match at the time, so stuff like that rather than going out for ice cream. Maybe not bucket list items, but certainly something "special".
Additionally, with the news breaking last night that Taylor Hawkins, drummer with the Foo Fighters (one of our favourite bands) dying, I think he might lean into this more. Next time I see him, I'll follow up with him on all counts, to see how he is and to see if he wants to follow up on doing more fun stuff.
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