I was just surprised with a late night phone call from a buddy who served with me in the 11th ACR in Germany in 90-91. We’ve been in contact before, the last time a year or so ago, and he is still as awesome a guy as ever. It’s just kind of crazy to me, though. I’m 41, and I only spent a couple of years on active duty, yet a buddy from the Army calls up and we are shooting the shit and insulting each other like we were sharing a bunk bed just yesterday. Yes, I’m hammered and feeling a touch nostalgic and it is NYE so we are all thinking about a fresh new year, but the concept of mortality just seems more important this year. I don’t know where I am going with this post, other than to say life is good. Even when it is shitty, it is still good. I don’t know what I have done to deserve such a blessed life, but I guess I just hit the lottery. Even so, it seems to go by so fast, and it is accelerating. When I was 21, I would spend Sundays saying “shit, it was just Friday, what happened?” Now, I am 41, and I say “shit, it was just June, now it is NYE, what happened?” And I am sure if I ever make it to 70, months will turn into years and decades. I don’t pretend to understand the fetish fetishists in the pro-life movement, but, as an atheist, I will agree- life is precious. Live it, and live it hard. It’s the only one you have:
So, I guess my message to you in 2012 is the following- let your kids stay up late and spend time with you even if you hate the fucking Chipmunk movie, give your pets too many treats, drink that extra beer and eat that extra scoop of ice cream, always tell mom and your wife you love them, always pet your dog when you can, always give your neighbor the benefit of the doubt, try everything new you can and repeat everything you love as often as you can even when it is bad for you, and live hard, fast, and full throttle and don’t you fucking dare apologize for it.
It will be over before you know it.
ruemara
Congrats, Cole. It’s the meaning of life. Happy New Year!
daveNYC
Niiiiiice.
Happy Mew Years everyone!
Ruckus
It will be over before you know it.
Ain’t that the truth.
Arundel
Seriously nice musings Mr. Cole, and all true. Love your life and the people (and pet friends) in it, love and appreciate them right now, because time slips away from us, ever faster. We’re all lucky in our way, if we have the means to even post here, in a chaotic world. Grateful for that, happy New Year to you and everyone here.
Redshift
Well, all right then, I’ll get right on that.
No regrets. Happy New Year.
The prophet Nostradumbass
Happy New Year, everyone, from the Pacific Time Zone.
Ricardo Cabeza
Germany ’91. We were in the shit. Yea, man. Being a REMF was hard man. HARD. I still got PTSD when I drink and want to impress people who never served. I mean I still yell at my cat. I mean YELL at my cat. But when I got in the reserves, I became a FOBIT in Kuwait. Shit became wicked real then bra. Sometimes the DFAC opened late. LATE! (sobs)
Mary G
Happy New Year, West Coasters!
John Cole
@Ricardo Cabeza: LMAO. That was awesome.
Ricardo Cabeza
Uh, thanks. I was going for mildly amusing. Thank you for getting that.
Swellsman
Beautiful. Happy New Year, Everybody! (And I just gave my dog a good petting, to let him know how happy I am to have him with me — great advice!)
Ricardo Cabeza
Just saw Bill Maher perform at the Clam Shell in Waikiki tonight. It’s a great day for America.
cay
I always find that watching “Little Miss Sunshine” helps.
Mnemosyne
Walk — Foo Fighters
It’s probably because Dave Grohl and I are the same age, but we seem to have recently come to the same conclusion: we have started the long, slow walk to the grave that will last for about as long as the time we’ve already been here has.
Happy effing New Year.
Karen
It’s for that reason that I make it a point to go home to Long Island and visit my folks at least twice a year. I’d go more often but the cat care costs more than the air fare.
mwm
As a smoker, this really speaks to me.
No, really.
Either way, I was supremely happy with the people I chose to spend time with tonight and, surprisingly, with my year in 2011. I have a feeling 2012 will be equally productive, if in a very, very different way.
Kobekid
wonderful under the influence musings… lots of wisdom there…. except the dog treats… obese companions check out earlier than others.
Crusty Dem
Nailed it in one. Cheers. John.
CaseyL
We love you, too, John. Thank you for the New Years good wishes, and thanks as always for being the best Blog Daddy around.
Just came home from the party. It was so much fun I stayed till after midnight. The traffic on the way home was, amazingly, not bad at all. I guess most folks are staying out way late.
Happy 2012, everyone! May your worst day in 2012 be better than your best day in 2011.
Jewish Steel
Yeah, I told a young lady friend to spend the summer with her boyfriend rather than grind thru the summer on her MFA if that’s what she wants. “Honey, you could get hit by a bus. Do what you want.”
Genine
Wonderful post, John!
And happy new year, all! A new year in a new city and things are alright!
From the heart, I wish everyone the best.
GregB
Nice sentiments Cole.
Live, laugh and love to your hearts extent and charge up your credit cards because the Mayans have this one down as the year to end all years.
Yutsano
@Jewish Steel: The MFA ain’t going nowhere. Who knows what the boyfriend could turn into.
the farmer
Cole: And I am sure if I ever make it to 70, months will turn into years and decades.
they’ll turn into seconds and minutes.
*
Kane
Wise words, JC.
Happy New Year to everyone.
moderateindy
Some good advice coupled with some really lousy advice. Sorry, but don’t have that extra beer, or that extra scoop of ice cream. The short term results are rarely as rewarding as the damage is lasting. Is it better to burn out or rust? It’s better to be able to enjoy whatever time ya got. The problem with doing things like having the extra scoop, is that eventually ya get fat, and start not being able to do many things that make life fun. The problem with having the extra beer is you end up being around a bunch of other guys that like to have that extra beer till there is no more extra beer, there’s only the next beer.
Don’t want to be a bummer, but live hard seems to lend itself to ending up with a hard life. So Cole don’t live hard, just Live Well.
carpeduum
Thanks for the inspirational post Cole. I resolve to double my efforts in telling you that you are an ignorant fool in just about everything you say. Because life is short and when you see someone going through it ignorant and clueless as I see you doing, I just gotta say something.
GREENWALD GREENWALD GREENWALD
robertdsc-PowerBook
Happy new year to you, John, and all the BJ denizens here.
Debbie(aussie)
Wonderful sentiments from a nice guy. You are correct about time, I have eight years on you and I could have sworn yesterday it was March and I had just turned 49. This March, hell!
Soonergrunt
@Ricardo Cabeza: The only thing that would’ve made that better is if you talked about how much money you had to spend on weapon accessories and here’s this cool letter opener that can double as a fighting knife in case they ever get past the SECFOR and make it into your office.
freelancer (iPhone)
Jesus Christ, I know I’m I’m a soft touch and I never lived the life you experienced, but even though I’ve been coming here for years (I’ve got a mousepad, an apron, a coffee mug and a polo to prove it.) You’ve reduced me to eyeballs welled up with tears, because it isn’t so much the satisfaction of self-righteousness, but the feeling of helping and enabling others to live peaceful and better lives that gives one the pause that comes with passing along goodwill without respect for credit or ego.
Allah bless us, everyone!
-Tiny Samaratoko chan
genghisjon
Happy no fear everyone.
moe99
Wise words, Mr. Cole. There’s nothing like a diagnosis of lung cancer to turn one’s perspective all the way around.
Trying to make it to 3 years post-diagnosis. I’m 59 and a non-smoker to boot!
Debbie(aussie)
Moe99, keep up the good work ,fight it and live life to the full.you and the many other juicers dealing with ilness and greif, you have best wishes. Debs
Kobekid
@#26 preach on MI, words for the mid-life folk!
@#27 seize the day? Dude that is the saddest, loneliest New Year’s Day post I’ve ever read. Put your dick down for an afternoon and go out and meet some people. There’s a phrase in Japanese for your type, kuuki yomenai or KY.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@moe99:
Best wishes to you moe, good luck and keep on truckin’! :)
Ian
If you can post this kind of nonsense can we bait the trolls?
Raven
Off your ass
and on your feet
out of the shade
and into the heat!
Cermet
John, as an atheist too, I know from science that you do live again – the multi-Universe will, give enough time (and time is infinite) sooner (well, sooner means only many 10^100 + years) or later recreate all of us at some point. How we live will be totally dependent on our new decisions so always try and be your best self but don’t worry, you will always get another chance to try again so don’t get bent out of shape about bad decisions – someday, you’ll get another shot and you’ll get them right.
Happy new year and future new life …see you then and I hope your post get better, then (ok, there pretty good so far.)
Triassic Sands
Yes, life is precious. And as someone past sixty who has had serious health problems (that continue) I’m constantly aware of just how precious life is, though that isn’t the fruit of a recent epiphany. On the other hand, some of your advice, John, is just plain horrible. It definitely sounds like the advice of someone who’s had too much to drink.
If you really value life, don’t have the extra scoop of ice cream, the extra beer, and for heaven’s sake don’t try everything new that you haven’t tried, just because you haven’t tried it. (Hmm, that’s meth, huh? I should try it.)
If you really care about your pet, you definitely won’t give them extra treats (certainly not regularly), except maybe on rare occasions. Overweight dogs and cats, like overweight humans, are less healthy, have higher health care costs, and generally live shorter lives. Life sucks when you’re gasping for breath. If you value life, shortening yours (or your pet’s) through laziness and poor habits is a lousy idea.
Instead of having more ice cream, switch to frozen yogurt or even better sorbet, but remember both are loaded with sugar and diabetes is one of the best and easiest ways to ruin your life. Making wise dietary choices — moderation — doesn’t mean you’re paranoid, but it may help add years of precious life and if you’re as healthy as your genes will allow you to be, you’ll enjoy those years a lot more.
The idea of living “hard, fast, and full throttle” is silly and adolescent. You mean like James Dean? Or Jim Morrison? Live fully, don’t hesitate to take risks that genuinely enhance your quality of life, but do so with care and forethought. Sitting around watching other people play games on TV or in a stadium or arena instead of being out doing something active yourself, hardly qualifies as living “hard, fast, and full throttle.” Before my genes caught up with me, while others were vegging out on the couch, I was out rock climbing or long distance solo sea kayaking. I’ve had many friends and acquaintances who have died doing the risky activities they/we loved, but I really doubt if any of them, at the moment of their deaths, if they’d had the time to consider it, said to themselves, “Gee, I’m glad I’m dying doing something I love.” Yes, it’s better than being killed by a drunk driver, but since it’s death, it’s final, and it still sucks. Given the opportunity to make different choices, I’m pretty sure most of those who died climbing or who drowned while kayaking, probably wouldn’t have given up the activities, but they might well have modified their choices to change the decision that ultimately cost them their lives. But sometimes just plain bad luck steps in and turns out the lights.
In the end, life is not fair, and luck plays an important role in every life, whether we recognize it or not. People who make mostly right choices still may check out early, through no fault of their own. Some, who are generally extremely careful may make one mistake or have one lapse and not live to regret it. Or like the unfortunate 17-year-old boy who, at the edge of a 30 foot cliff, bent over to look at a butterfly, lost his balance and ended up a quadriplegic. I watched that happen, and however, much that poor kid liked butterflies, that was the wrong place and the wrong way to look too closely at one. Does anyone doubt he wished he could take back that decision? However, with a little more care, he could have looked at that same butterfly and walked away to tell his friends about its beauty.
Overeating and excessive drinking are not examples of living life to the fullest. Rather, they’re symptoms of a disrespect for life. Instead of having that extra ice cream, go for another or longer walk or run. Take binoculars and look at some birds — they’re incredible creatures, and much better in real life than on the television — even in high definition.
When you’re sober again, John, I’m going to assume that you’ll realize just how silly and dangerous your advice is. Live thoughtfully, not hard. Live fully, not fast. And people don’t have throttles, machines do. Good judgment will allow you live more fully and longer with more excitement and variety than any childish slogan will.
Happy New Year to you, John, and all the others at BJ. It remains one of the most interesting blogs, even on nights when the “owner” has over-indulged and tries to get all of his readers killed.
(I don’t know if I ever thought I agree with anyone who calls themselves a “moderate indy.”)
amk
Screw it, I’m going with a joke.
John received a parrot as an early Christmas gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of the bird’s mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with profanity.
John tried and tried to change the bird’s attitude by consistently saying only polite words, playing soft music and anything else he could think of to ‘clean up’ the bird’s vocabulary.
Finally, John was fed up and he yelled at the parrot. The parrot yelled back.
John shook the parrot and the parrot got angrier and even ruder.
John, in desperation, threw up his hands, grabbed the bird and shoved him in the freezer.
For a few minutes the parrot squawked and kicked and screamed. Then suddenly there was total quiet. Not a peep was heard for over a minute.
Fearing that he’d hurt the parrot, John quickly opened the door to the freezer.
The parrot calmly stepped out onto John’s outstretched arms and said…. ‘I believe I may have offended you with my rude language and actions. I’m sincerely remorseful for my inappropriate transgressions and I fully intend to do everything I can to correct my rude and unforgivable behavior.’
John was stunned at the change in the bird’s attitude. As he was about to ask the parrot what had made such a dramatic change in his behavior, the bird continued………..”May I inquire as to what the turkey did?
Cermet
@moe99: Please – remember that vitamin D (2000-4000 IU/day) has been proven to reduce the chance of many types of cancer developing so take it (while no studies (yet) prove it will prevent reoccurrence it does prevent cancer (proven) and help cure it in studies. So it may very well prevent reoccurrence! Besides, it reduces the number and severity of colds (after 4-5 months) most people will get and improves your immune system (helps white blood cells to work together against infection.) High levels of bloodstream Vitamin D has many other known and I am sure unknown benefits as well. It cannot harm if the above dose range is used (remember, the body stores vitamin D so mega-doses can be highly dangerous) and does do a lot of good things. It has even been show to help prevent and repair radiation damage! Talk about a useful vitamin!
Best of luck to you in this new year!
magurakurin
@Triassic Sands: yeah, well there’s that…or you could just go surfing.
Carrie
Bonne année tout le monde!
Muchas smoochas.
sjw
Your closing bit reminded me of a semi-sozzled, Balloon Juice version of this, John:
“This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”
(Walt Whitman, from the preface to Leaves of Grass)
A Happy and Healthy 2012 to you and all here!
Josie
@Yutsano: Here is the link to the recipe you asked for. I posted it in the other thread but didn’t know if you would see it. I used beef jerky for the Moroccan dried beef.
http://moroccanfood.about.com/od/beeflambandgoatrecipes/r/Moroccan_black_eyed_peas_cowpeas_khlea.htm
Cheryl from Maryland
Happy New Year BJ’rs.
While I don’t agree with John’s specifics (as a firm believer in don’t eat the extra scoop of ice cream), I agree with the main theme — don’t do what others think you should do, do what makes you whole, do what makes you have joy.
donnah
John, you’ve created a place where we can all come to laugh, cry, fume, and make our voices heard. Some days the posts are amazingly insightful, sometimes sentimental, but they always offer something for everyone.
Many thanks to the blogger team, who produce some great topical discussions. It can’t be easy to come up with fresh commentary every day without getting burned out. I admire all of you for doing it.
So, Happy New Year to all here at the big Balloon, and especially to John Cole, a big-hearted sweetheart and very smart man.
Lojasmo
Son had three friends over to watch movies. We got them pizza. I did have that extra beer, and fell asleep with my head on my wife’s lap. Life is good, but WHERE IS MY FUCKING SNOW? I live in Minnesota for a reason!
wonkie
When you get to my age entire decades whizz by in a heart beat–and I AM paying attention and relishing the moments!
I have always hated NYE because of the sense of the passage of time. And I can remember whethe year 2000 seemed impossibly far in the future and when 46 (my age in 2000) seemed impossibly old. Now twelve years in the rear view mirror!
So you are right–it ends. And sooner than one thinks. And it is important to have one’s priorities straight, to spend time on what is most valued, so as to not end up with a lot of regrets at the end.
IF I didn’t have stomach flu right now I’d be in better shape to act on my own advice!
Hillary Rettig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-LIYR4Fhq0
Keith G
Thanks for the nice thoughts.
Those of us hanging out at B-J live a life of such relative ease. I hope that this year we can find a way to do better for the millions of our neighbors who are waking up to another year of hunger and desperate need – the ones we seldom speak about anymore.
Emma
May your most desired thing come true… no, wait, that might be a curse instead. May you live the kind of life that, when it ends, you’ll look back on it and say to yourself: Damn. I did good!
boss bitch
@amk:
LOL. Very funny.
red dog
Having reached 70 I agree with all of your rant concerning attitude and speech but watch the consumption part, I didn’t and I am now paying the consequences. If I had not smoked, had a donut every morning and desert at night, I would be a lot better off. On the other hand 3 or 4 beers a day seems a minor transgression.
Schlemizel
I’m gonna be 60 in a week & I’ll only add how had it is to live by that credo John. The daily stuff, dealing with work, bills, house, kids are overwhelming.
It takes all the running you can do to stay in one place.
How do you go anywhere then?
You have to run twice as fast.
– Alice In Wonderland
cmorenc
@Cermet:
Shorter Cermet:
Drink lots of MILK!
cmorenc
@Triassic Sands:
Does this mean no more snacking on pork rinds?
Does this mean we gotta snack on baby carrots and sprouts instead?
jhaygood
hey john – i rarely comment on balloon juice (in fact i rarely read the comments) but i read the front page several times a day, pretty much every day of the year. BJ is the place that puts words to what i’m thinking, with more knowledge to back it up. and the laughs that make the insanity so much more bearable. (and some little feat thrown in – now you’re speaking my language.) it’s all a HUGE deal for me. so i just wanted to pass along my appreciation, maybe you’ll see it here maybe you won’t, but thanks so much for the work you do. now i’ll go play with the kids, bring my wife her coffee in bed (which i do every day), and generally spend the day withholdin’ mah produktivitee…
uila
@sjw: With all due respect to John, I’d say it’s closer to the ending scene of Dazed and Confused. Happy New Years, all!
Kola Noscopy
@sjw:
This.
snarkyspice
@Cermet: Speaking from personal experience, getting my vitamin D levels up to normal has completely eliminated migraine headaches that I suffered from for 30 years.
Lee Hartmann
Amen, John.
cokane
Wisdom of the gods Mr Cole
gogol's wife
@freelancer (iPhone):
LOL.
Tony T
YES
Bruce S
Probably noted before, but I assume you mean “fetus fetishists” not “fetish fetishists.”
wrb
sandy denny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vzUcADcDZA&feature=related
grandpa john
Huh!! wait until you’re 74 and asking the same question, where did it go? and the news you may not want to hear, the older you are the faster they go. as I can testify, the last 37 seemed to blow by much faster than the first 37.
canuckistani
Wise words, John. Happy New Year to you.
grandpa john
@the farmer: Yep and the worst part is there ain’t no do overs for all the fuck ups , so make wise decisions if you can.
Svensker
Ya made me weepy, Cole.
Happy New Year, Juicers. Hope it’s a good one for all and that all the changes that meet us are good ones and that the difficult ones can be met with a peaceful heart.
dance around in your bones
Ok, havn;t even read any comments (been watching Jungle Book wit de grandkids….admittedly in a comatose stste)…G
Good gawd, Cole..I was gonna make some snarky remark about you being a Replug back in the day….well…..
I just want to tell you how much I LOVE yer website.
In case you are getting tired of it. PLEASE DON’T.
PLEASE. Thank you. very much.
Allan Anderson
I recently turned 60 with 70 and 80 year old friends. We all agree that as you get older time runs faster. This last year was just a blur for me. Main thing,enjoy today.
dance around in your bones
@sjw: Oh Gawd…got this quote on my fridge…mi favorito.
YellowJournalism
Not to dismiss the wisdom of the advice of my fellow commenters, but I got a kick out of how John’s simple suggestion to enjoy and indulge for one night seemed to be turned into his suggesting that we all adopt the lifestyle of John Belushi. Anyway, you guys are great, and I love how people tend to look out for each others’ bodies and souls. Happy New Year!
keekey
De-lurking briefly just to say I was being grouchy this afternoon because I proposed taking the kids to see Hugo and the ungrateful rugrats want to see that stupid Chipmunks movie instead, so your words about just sucking it up and seeing the Chipmunk movie could not have been more well timed. Off to hug the kids and, if not enjoy the Chipmunk movie, at least enjoy the kids enjoying the Chipmunk movie.
PurpleGirl
@Triassic Sands:
DRTL
PurpleGirl
@Hillary Rettig:
Thank you for this clip. Mame is absolutely right — Live.
(Auntie Mame is one of my favorite movies. I have to get it on a DVD.)
dmbeaster
Couldn’t agree more, and I have put the same principles into practice (particularly in raising my kids).
But don’t be surprised by the reaction that its supposedly all about us DFHs undermining our moral fabric because we are insufficiently severe, and that laxity is proof of moral decline.
Triassic Sands
@cmorenc:
Moderation, my friend. The occasional pork rind probably won’t kill you (unless the feds nab you for poor taste). A bag a day? Not a good idea.
I was in the hospital recently and my roommate was a 58-year-old man who had been diagnosed with Type-2 diabetes. He was in deep, deep denial and his plan was to eat what he wants and simply control it by taking more insulin. He is about 5’9″ and weighs 285 pounds, though he claimed to have lost 50 pounds recently (from being in the hospital). He told the nurse he figures his weight is “just about right now,” but he added that “some doctor would probably tell him he needed to lose another 20 pounds.” Twenty? Try a hundred and twenty. I couldn’t believe my ears. Where could anyone get the idea that being 5’9″ tall and weighing 285 pounds was “just about right?” Believe me he wasn’t a mass of rippling muscle.
He fought the nurses constantly and had Double Quarterpounders with Cheese and extra large milkshakes brought in for dinner by caring relatives. The same nutrition conscious folks brought him…drum roll please…bags of potato chips and, sigh, pork rinds to snack on. He kept saying things like “Nobody lives forever.” And “if I can’t eat the stuff I like, then who wants to live?” When the nurses were absent, I told him that my brother died at fifty from diabetes related heart failure (true). Once again he said, “Nobody lives forever.” That’s true, I told him, by how does it sound if instead of dying you just end up blind with both your feet amputated?
I’m sure nothing I said had any effect on him. But his condition is a direct result of a lifetime of really bad dietary choices, though I guessing pork rinds were not the main culprit.
If you’ve got nice high HDL, exercise vigorously regularly, and make generally good choices concerning food, then I’m sure you’ll survive some pork rinds (but why would you want to — egad, I know tastes vary, but I’ve never been able to figure out how anyone could stomach pork rinds).
As for sprouts, I’d be careful, they’ve been implicated in many outbreaks of serious food borne illness. According to one article:
…Raw Sprouts May be the Riskiest Food in Your Grocery Store
From the same article:
So, given the choice between sprouts and pork rinds, maybe you should opt for the pork rinds.
It’s amazing anyone lives past their fifth birthday. What a world.
For reference:
Double Quarterpounder with Cheese = 780 calories (380 from fat).
32-oz. Chocolate Triple Thick Shake = 1160 calories and 168g of sugars.
PurpleGirl
Remember: Life is uncertain, eat dessert first.
Triassic Sands
@PurpleGirl:
NMP
kay
@moderateindy:
That’s what’s great about it, though.
It’s like the opposite of a New Year’s resolutions list :)
That’s sort of refreshing, you have to admit.
mary
John, thanks for all you do keeping this site going. I have been very lucky in this life, too. As I get older, I have learned to appreciate those I love and to not worry so much over things I have no control over. I just wish I learned it sooner and didn’t waste so much time. Anyway, I do love a sentimental guy. Happy New Year!
moderateindy
@kay:
I don’t know if it’s the opposite of a New Year’s resolution, more like resolution adjacent. And I understand the actual sentiment behind it. I think I’m just a little sensitive to the it’s OK to overindulge on a regular basis concept.
I use to use a joke about stopping smoking, though I have rarely used tobacco products in my life. It went basically like, They say it takes ten years off of your life, but those are usually the “Depends years” anyway, and I don’t want to endure those.
Unfortunately, the truth is whether smoking drinking or overeating, the result isn’t just that you die sooner, but those “Depends Years” hit ya a decade earlier as well. Having seen the ravages of overindulgence up close and personal over the last couple years i felt compelled to comment.
I probably should have just let it go, because even though parts were stated in-artfully,(I don’t think that’s even a word) I knew what he was trying to say, and the sentiment he meant to convey.
And whose that Walt Whitman guy someone quoted, that guy can’t write a lick. Sounds like some DFH for sure.
ninja3000
Fuck it, Cole’s attitude rules!
Tomorrow morning, I’ll slow time down by taking my Kawasaki up to about 140mph, celebrate the new year of my 58th cycle around this earth, and love my life and my family.
There’s good times and bad, but even the bad is worth it if you’ve got someone to love, and she loves you too.
Ride on Brother Jonh, and the same to all of you, my friends on this site…
4jkb4ia
And to great, stunned relief, The Cole walked off the field, and was gone. There would be no sacrifices to it today or any other day.
Last night I had one bottle-sized can of beer, and that was a big deal. So I read this as simply saying, “Don’t live in shame. Life is entirely too short.”
MMM
Shine on you crazy diamond Mr. Cole