Uncle Lex Michael was a 23-year-old university graduate and an athlete. In 1985 while riding his motorcycle along Velez street , a bus hit him. This resulted in the amputation of his leg below the knee. Eight years after, while competing in a triathlon, he was hit by a van. He became a quadriplegic, not able to feel or move anything from his chest down.
Do you ever get tired of working?
If you’re the average person, you must be living a routinary life—you wake up, go to work, go back home, sleep, then wake up again the next morning to do the same thing. You’re seldom able to spend your hard-earned money on yourself because you have a family to feed, kids to put through school (even if they’re not yours), monthly utility bills to pay, plus the rent, etcetera, etcetera.
When I graduated from college, I had absolutely no idea where I wanted to go in life. All I knew is that I’d do whatever I am meant to do. What is it? I told myself I’d figure it out.
Different companies called me a few months after graduation and because I didn’t know exactly where to start with my career, I just went to all interviews. There were some that kind of scared me because of the job description, some that made me dread working because of the job description, some that made me dread working because of the possible workload and some that seemed just like the perfect job.
There was one particular job I liked but the promised call didn’t come. I felt lost again and decided to apply to other companies and forget about the one that got away. Just as I was losing hope, the company called and informed me that they had a job offer for me. Before I knew it, everything was fixed and I was working!
I recalled it was the evening of August 20, 1989. The Menendez couple—Jose, a successful and wealthy businessman and his wife, Kitty—had dozed off in the family room of their Beverly Hills mansion. Then two boys entered their house and killed them with a 12-gauge shotgun. The primary suspects were their two sons, aged 21 and 18. The motive? The father domineered them and had threatened to disinherit them. So to get their inheritance and spend it on their lavish desires, they murdered their parents. Prosecutors later alleged that the two boys spent about $1million within their first six months as orphans.