If I believed in God….

I will first tell you what I do not believe, I do not believe in a guy sitting on top of the clouds judging people and throwing lightning.  Similarly, I do not believe in a little red guy in the middle of the earth that will be the consequence for a bad life.  But I certainly am open to the idea of something bigger than myself and yesterday would be a big example of the possible existence of a force like that.  In case you have not followed I have 58k in chips and lost a big pot towards the end of the day that would have had me well over 100k.  So I was feeling a bit sorry for myself.

So as I got on the plane to go back home (I play again on Tuesday) I was a little surprised to see a young man already on the plane.  I introduced myself and he did as well.  It was still a bit strange to have such a young kid in first class so I probed a little bit.  It turns out he was going to camp in Minnesota and this was his first time ever on a plane.  He is 14 and his sister was already at the camp.  The camp is Camp Heartland it is a camp for kids that are HIV positive or have AIDS.  Wow, I mean like wow.  The way he told me about the camp was in a way that he likely has done often telling people just to see their reaction so he can know whether or not to broom them from his life quickly.  Sure put my whole WSOP misadventure in perspective.  Certainly either disease is not the death sentence it used to be but as we talked I found out that both he and his sister take incredible amounts of medication.  I also found out that he is a running back on his middle school team and wants to become an electrician.  Just like any other kid he has dreams and hopes.  I could not contain my emotions for most of the plane flight but I tried to not let him notice but at one point I had to put on my sunglasses.  All I could think about the whole time was how grateful I should be for my families health and also mine.

I sometimes wonder if my life is just more eventful than other peoples lives.  This stuff happens to me all the time, every time I question the presence of God something like this happens and makes me think twice.