Comments on: Beware of Life

By: Karyn

Karyn — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:30:47 +0000

What a great post! As one of my friends likes to say “life is fatal.”

Alexander Eliot said it a little more poetically, ” Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible? ”

To expound on that idea a little more, Pema Chodron, Buddhist nun, has said “death is certain, only time of death is uncertain. What is the most important thing we can be doing in this moment?”

I love it when art, spirituality and humanity come together to point us toward universal truths. ?

By: Courtney

Courtney — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:16:36 +0000

Completely agree and have written those last few lines on a post it as a constant reminder – right next to two of my favorite quotes for 2010:

One of the greatest joys in life is to be in search of one thing and to discover another. – Anne Wilson Schaef

You may be dissapointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you dont try
- Beverly Sills

I have been reading your blog for over two years now and thank you for your drive to seek new destinations and your passion for life. You are an inspiration.

By: kelsey

kelsey — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:35:50 +0000

I just stumbled on your web-site two days ago and I am now addicted! I like many other people feel a little lost in my mindless job. I long for the road less traveled and to do the things I dream of but I am told its irresponsiable. I was asked by a freind “what is a job you would do for free because you love it so much?” That is the question I am focussing on right now. And this article and your others are helping me tap into those beautiful dreams I’ve kept tucked away in the back of my head for so long, no more though! I will tap into the road less traveled and along the way never forget to tell the one’s I love exactly that…..that I love and appreciated them. With their love plus my vision I feel one day soon I will be running down that road less traveled!

By: Anton

Anton — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:17:52 +0000

I took a trip once to Tasmania, Australia little did i know a week before reports of the worst blizzard in Ten Years on the overland track, so bad people were scared and wanted out. Before i left home I had to go out and get a good snow jacket, and we were not as prepared as we wanted to be, but thankfully things turned out ok-we could have done with more chocolate.

I know that from what we had in our packs at the time, if we had of been caught in this it could of been a disaster. It just goes to show you do learn from different experiences when your on top of the world. I look forward to what the year brings ahead on this amazing journey. Keep up the excellent updates, it is so true we can learn from one another, not to judge a book by its cover.

We all have dreams, and this is where we have to be, its the only way in life!

By: Sarah M

Sarah M — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:11:12 +0000

I couldn’t agree more. My mother couldn’t agree less… conflict ensues;)

By: jess gonacha swift

jess gonacha swift — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:47:20 +0000

What a fantastic post, Chris! And a motivator, too. I don’t want to wonder about the road not taken or the life not lived either!

By: Deborah Rice

Deborah Rice — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:09:02 +0000

Before long parents will be held accountable for letting their children walk to school or leave the house to catch a school bus, if something bad occurs. The focus seems to be in smearing the reputation of the victim (s).

By: Motivated Memento Mori

Motivated Memento Mori — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:08:54 +0000

Age 17 I flipped a truck while driving slowly on an icy road. At age 18, I broke 3 bones in my ankle playing soccer. Age 19, I was hit by a drunk driver. With complications, it almost killed me twice. Age 20, an elevated porch collapsed with me and 10 others. The guy beside me fell on his head. Distance from his head to the ground – 16 feet/4.8 metres. (Luckily he survived). I was just scratched.

All of these things happened less than 20 minutes from home. In between these accidents, I’ve spent three semesters abroad on three different continents, traveled alone in 15 countries, spent 4 months doing HIV/Aids work in Africa, and I’m still on track to graduate summa cum laude with a double major only two weeks after I’m old enough to drink legally here in the USA.

The scars I bear all over my body are memento mori. I’m not even willing to put off chasing my dreams until after graduation, it’s far too risky. After all, who knows when I’ll get hit by a car (again).

By: samthor

samthor — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:22:55 +0000

thank you for the reminder that the brave may not live forever, but the timid barely live at all.

By: jen

jen — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:52:08 +0000

honestly – vaseline on the door handles of all the people sending you emails about people dying while traveling. and, worse for anyone who says the hikers deserved to die. i do not claim to understand the risks that people take sometimes, but i never judge them. this – the most slippery, dangerous slope of all. blessings in your travels in 2010, chris.