A man who loved life and inspired me has died. I had never met him, never heard his voice, I followed him on social media. Many scoff at social media, calling it a loveless place, but the energy we call love is alive on social media and shared daily by and among millions on social media.

The man’s family wants privacy; their direct physical and emotional connection to this man deserves that space and time at the epicenter of their loss.

This man’s posts were a sharing expression of his love for life, his love for family, his thirst for meaning, his love for healing people, his love for nature, his love for challenging himself physically far beyond any average person. He was and remains an exceptional example of loving life and sharing that love openly. For all those and many more reasons, he inspired me and I grieve his loss with my love for what he gave all of us by sharing.

Most of us see grief as pain, something that afflicts us, something we would rather avoid. I have grieved enough challenging losses to understand that grief is a teacher of how and why we love. Grief stops us in our tracks and demands that we understand how important love is to our soul, and a lesson in what exact love our soul needs.

From experience and observation, I have a metaphysical view of love. I believe that what we call love is a global universal positive energy force, a networked web of love with similarities to both gravity and light. Human souls connect to love by resonance. Via our soul, each of our thoughts and emotions create tiny ripples, waves of love with specific frequency or mix of frequencies.

These connections with love energy are frictionless and invisible. They can cover the globe instantly, and are a persistent as the light waves from the start of the universe. The love you put into the world persists for all future time. It can be connected with by anyone who finds resonance with your love, and these resonances amplify and form nodes where more people might find love that attracts them.

The man, who died this week, by posting about his life in a positive light, formed thousands of very strong nodes, strong emotional connections with known and an anonymous people’s souls. Through grief, we learned that his life mattered to many others that he knew and didn’t know personally.

We loved him. He would not want us to suffer in sadness; he would want us to carry parts of his passionate happy life in our souls and share him with others. Our task is to remember, to resonate, to mimic and to amplify the great good of his passionate life by teaching those who love us a lesson about some part of his soul that resonated with us.

The universe we live in is a random and chaotic place where great good and great bad things happen without explanation. Onto that heartless landscape we live in, we humans build purpose by loving each other, and by loving ourselves, and by loving the gift of life that we call today.

I start each by remembering the loved ones that I have lost along a good and purposeful life. I am proud to add this man to the short list of those I have truly cherished and learned about love of life from. I will teach from his teachings whenever I need to, I will speak of him as an example, as an inspiration to live with purpose each day, but most of all to find the joy in each and every day we live.

Please join me for a moment of silence as we collectively remember and amplify the love he had for his life.