I wanna be like you

Do you know someone who is just a really good person? Like a give the shirt off their back and not question why you needed it for a second person? Like a person who makes you want to be a better person? I can say pretty confidently not everyone has the pleasure to have someone like this in their lives, but I am lucky because I have my brother Nate.

He is the definition of a good person. I am honored to have him in my life and even more honored to be able to call him family. He is the hardest working and most dependable person I know hands down. My papa was a really hard worker and my dad is a hard worker and I think Nate gets that trait from both of them, but he is different. Whether he wants to or not he will get the job done and do it smiling. He is the most easy going person I know.

A few months ago I found myself in a slump. I wouldn’t say I was depressed but something mentally was going on and I was just tired all the time. I had no motivation to do anything and just wanted to sleep. No matter what time I went to bed it was a process to drag myself out of bed every morning for work. I would lay there thinking of ways to just not go in. And one morning as I laid there watching the clock tick by, I was like what is wrong with me? Nate would never just lay in bed and not go to work because he was tired? My brother somehow functions on like 4 hours of sleep. I don’t think it is entirely by choice, but it is what he gets and he makes it work. Me on the other hand, I was sleeping over 10 hours and still couldn’t get up. His day starts around 4 am, where he goes to the gym and then he is off to work. Most of the time when he gets off work he is going to another job or working on some project. He never just sits and watches TV. He is go, go, go, get shit done, from the moment his feet hit the floor in the morning. And me, tired? Please. It was a slap in the face to get my shit together.

He never complains and sometimes I think he has the worst luck in the world. He is actually like really unlucky. He’s like buy 4 new tires and next week you have a nail in 2 of them unlucky. But he brushes off whatever life throws at him and keeps going.

Help me move at 6 am on the weekend? Sure, done. Watch my kid so me and Nick can have a day out? Would love to and picked her up hours before he needed to. Put together furniture, toys, etc? You would think he actually enjoyed it. Pour a concrete patio? Who was out there in the 90 plus degrees for days? Nate. Need a truck? He will be there to haul whatever you need. Need a good laugh? He has that too, just ask him about some work stories.

I’m sure he has bad days that I don’t see, but when I think about being a better person I think about being more like him. Every year on his birthday I tell him I want to be more like him and I don’t know what I would do without him, but I don’t know if he really gets how great he is.

The world needs more Nate Hall’s.