Letters to Sydney

Back when I was four years old I remember my dad asking me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I told him what most little boys tell their fathers, "I want to be a firefighter."

A few years later I was asked the same question, this time by my first grader teacher for a class book we were writing. I told her an astronaut.

A few months after that when we had finished the book, I decided that I no longer wanted to be an astronaut, but a police officer. Then after that it was a doctor, a zookeeper, and an airplane pilot.

My point: I had a lot of things I wanted to be when I grew up. The one thing I never wanted to be: 24 years old with a terminal disease that was slowly taking away my life.

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When Benjamin Jackson discovers he is dying of stage 4 lung cancer and his life is about to be cut very short, her spends his last days writing love letters for his girlfriend to read after he is gone.