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Evel Knievel was seriously before my time. I don’t even think I saw a picture of him until today, and that’s only because I found out he died. I’ve heard about him all my life, just as the crazy guy with the motorcycle who did insane thing like jump over the Grand Canyon (did he really do that by the way? Or is that some kind of rumor?) and buses and stuff.

The crazy thing, to me anyway, is that he died at 69 of failing health or diabetes… that just seems wrong. You’d think Evel Knievel would die doing something outrageous, not from health problems. That seems like Superman dying of cancer and Spiderman contracting AIDS. It’s just wrong.

I’ve been getting this message from a million different directions recently… that life is too short for all the crap we’ve got going on. One of my closest friends could have died very recently in a car accident, and everything she’s been saying since has confirmed this. One little thing in your life could go slightly differently, and boom… you could be gone. Life is too short for all of the things we are and are not doing.

I feel like I need to make a lot of changes in my own life. A lot of changes. I feel resolute; I feel like this whole thing is so fleeting and I’m wasting my time with inactivity. I need to get up and go. I’ve come up with a list of New Year’s Resolutions. Now, before you tell me that it’s not the new year just yet… I’m thinking more along the lines of “I want to check back on myself around New Year’s, and I want to see if I’ve actually done what I set out to do.”

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