I love Richard Simmons. I was so excited as a child to exercise along with him on the tv, and then there would be making a healthy food at the end of the show. My grandmother would lovingly laugh when we baked about how I learned to beat eggs by watching Richard Simmons.
When I was a teenager, I saw him talk about how he was bullied as a kid and how that made it so important to him to give love to the world. I thought anybody famous was cool, so I had hope I could become cool like him.
I did become cool like him. I'm not famous, but I learned that's not what made him cool. It was the love. The passion for just existing. The willingness to be weird.
We were blessed to have Richard Simmons. This world is better because he breathed the same air as us.