As the late, great Mac Miller’s birthday came and went just over a week ago, the Pittsburgh native’s lyrics have been stuck on repeat in my head. In particular, the beginning of the first verse in his 2018 hit ‘2009’ — a simple one-liner: you’ve got to jump in to swim.
Simple, right? But sometimes even the most simplistic saying hits the spot. Nothing good happens without that first leap of faith. And that leap isn’t always so easy. That’s something that we could all do with remembering from time-to-time. If you needed a human reminder, there is one diving on the floor for loose balls and flying for alley-oop slams on our screens every other night.