Eric AI Voice Generator by Fish Audio

When you're young, you think you have all the time in the world. But I tell you, these days pass like morning dew in the sun. Take hold of each moment, for tomorrow is not promised to any of us.

And when I was young, very young, we had this neighbor who lived all alone in that old house. She worked in her garden every day, and people, they didn't understand why she kept to herself so much. But I knew there was a story there, a sad story.

And when I was young, maybe about sixteen or so, we had to work very, very hard in those days. The community was different then, and people would help each other more. My mother, she would always say that times were harder but people were kinder.

Looking at all of you, I see the same pain in your eyes that I've carried. We've lost so much, seen things we can't unsee. But maybe that's why we must keep fighting - to protect what little humanity we have left.

When I think back to those days on the farm, we had very, very little, but we managed. The young ones today, they don't know how it was. We worked in the fields from sunrise, and the community, they helped each other, you see. That's how we lived.

I watch the light fade across the floorboards, tracing paths I’ve walked for decades. There’s a weight to the silence here, a heavy collection of moments I let slip away. I suppose some stories are meant to stay quiet, echoing only within these four walls until the very end.

Every time I walk past her room, the silence is deafening. I watch Corey trying to be strong, but I can see the light has gone out of her eyes. I just want to take this pain away from her, but some burdens are too heavy for any father to carry.

You see, we spend our lives waiting for the perfect moment to be happy. I waited seventy years for a tomorrow that never looked quite right. But tomorrow is a ghost, kid. All we ever really had was today, and I let too many of them slip away.