The great what if’s – what if you woke this morning and sleepily said to the world that you were not afraid – not afraid to fail, not afraid to go broke, not afraid to embarrass yourself, not afraid to die?<\/p>\n
I was thinking about this as I had my tea – way too strong tea for my caffeine insensitivity, but I decided to just go with it.<\/p>\n
Last night flying in on the plane – we stayed at a consistent turbulent level – enough so that you could never really relax. I thought about how that is what living in New Orleans is like – you could fix your garden, you could paint your house, you could even optimistically put in a pool but the truth is a hurricane could come on June 1st and wash it all away.<\/p>\n
So we can never really let down our guard in New Orleans.<\/p>\n
But neither should other people in other cities although they are lulled into thinking they can.<\/p>\n
So what if life is about dealing with fear and uncertainty and that’s the norm and complacency is a droning we need to be slapped out of and what if it is true that the meaning of life is not to be comfortable but rather to live it?<\/p>\n
Today, the rain has stopped in New York and it is going to be in the upper 50s – woo hoo – time to step out into the world and take a big bite out of the big apple and hope there are no razor blades hidden beneath the juicy flesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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