Keeping those fingers crossed surely helped!!
Ran this sudo systemctl start influxdb to finish the install tutorial got the same error:
Job for influxdb.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status influxdb.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
Ran the command sudo chown -R influxdb:influxdb /usr/lib/influxdb from the reddit post.
Retried sudo systemctl start influxdb and got no error 
InfluxDB is back up and running!! Woooohooo!!
Thank you very much for pointing me in the right direction @Anaisdg
