First time homeowner loses his job 15 minutes after closing on his new home: 'I turned off my camera so they wouldn't see me cry'

Life has a funny sense of humor. It will strike us down after lifting us up, over and over again, until the end of time. Like Frank Sinatra once sang, "Riding high in April, shot down in May. But I know I'm going to change my tune when I'm back on top in June." Couldn't be more true. You just have to learn how to ride the waves. It helps to be able to laugh along with it as well. Sure, it's not exactly funny that you ditched your umbrella at the last minute to save space in your bag and now you're caught in one of the worst downpours in history, but it's a little funny. Not ha ha funny, but ironic funny, the kind that Alanis Morrisette sings about. If you have a sense of levity, then nothing can get you down quite so hard. 

The universe has a cruel sense of timing, though, and you have to appreciate that. That's what happened to the man in this story who had just accomplished something major for the first time, then was in for a surprise.

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