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August 20, 2003

The Decision.

This entry is being posted out of order, sorry. It was meant to be posted before "The Plan". Sorry.

Last night I read an article in Rock & Ice Magazine ("The only rule that counts", April 15, 03 #124) by John Long that had a profound affect on me. It was about a climbing friend he'd had during his heydays in Yosemite Valley. One day this friend announced that he had to stop playing around and get on with his life. That day he left Yosemite, never to return. Almost 25 years later, Long received a letter from Jeff. The letter told a little about the life he was living as a successful business man with places in Manhattan and Singapore. He'd just redone the bathroom in his NY place for $67,000, to give you any idea of how much money he had. To his credit, he acknowledged how vulgar that sounded. Throughout the letter you couldn't get past how much remorse he expressed for dropping out of the lifestyle he'd had with John, while at the same time justifying the necessity of his current lifestyle. He'd also given up the woman he apparently loved, because it didn't seem possible given his busy work schedule.

Long did not immediately reply after getting the letter. While he thought about the letter he had to write frequently, they were so many worlds apart, it just wasn't a priority, nor would it be easy. Many months later, after having forgotten about the letter completely, he accidentally came upon the letter again and quickly realized that Jeff's office was in Tower 1 of the World Trade Center. A quick investigation on the net revealed what he had feared. Jeff had been one of the victims. He'd written the letter just days before the tragedy.

In THIS entry, I vaguely started thinking about how to put my ideals into action. "Its easy to frame answers to questions in terms of ideologies instead of action. ... It is all well and good to define ones ideologies. But once that is done, much sooner than never, one must turn them into action. " In the days since I wrote that passage I began to realize the implications of that decision. Its time to start formulating a plan and begin following through with that plan with immediate action.

Posted by wonko at August 20, 2003 09:51 AM

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Put on your Nikes kid, and just do it!

Posted by: dwEEzzle at August 20, 2003 03:18 PM

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