I get up in the morning, see my Wife and Children for a few minutes, go off to work, get home, see them for an hour or so, then do more work, go to bed, and get back up to do it all over again. Is that truly living? Depends on your definition of what truly living is. To me, it’s not, but I do have an obligation to my Family to provide for them and want to make my Children’s quality of life better than mine. Am I cheating my Children of enjoying lifes simple pleasures by trying to keep up with the Jones’s?? Maybe so. I’ll be doing some soul searching for a while and see if I can live my dream by simplifying life a bit.

Reminds me of the quote “All Men Die, Very Few Truly Live.”

Evan, in my opinion, you truly lived your life to the fullest. God Bless you, you died too young, and will be missed by many.

It seems he was seeking and still growing. The thing that struck me is that he pointed to something bigger than himself. And, also, he pointed to acts of kindness and the results of tiny acts. This is very powerful.

You bring up Obama. Well I cant speak for him but I can bring in Guialiani. When he took over New York they had high crime. Instead of going after the big offenders – drug dealers, killers, ect, they took care of the little things. That is, broken windows, bums in the streets, ect. By taking care of the little things the big things like murder and drug use decreased. True story.

Anyway, I am late for work and I am sorry if I did not do this point justice. In the end, his points (EVANS) were very profound and basic in the sense that if we are less self centered and kind to others we can have much power in one. He points to breaking away from self centered nature by getting alone and breaking away from a negative conditioning culture and yet points to the fact that we need community to share our lives with. In short, he was not afraid to be alone and face who he truly was, aknowledging something greater than himself so that he could come back to community and share what he had learned.

I admitt, he like the rest of us, are imperfect and are on a journey to learn and share with others. Thanks for your thoughts.

Got to run…

Peace -

At times I found it a tad arrogant how he spoke of himself. And i also found his actions to be quite self fulfilling which contradicted alot of what he said about making a change.

“I’m going to go into the dessert because that is going to help others once i write about it”.

It’s one thing to say we can all make a difference, but it’s a whole different thing to tell someone how to do it.

I don’t know, I was just a little disapointed by what I saw.