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So some of you may be wondering where I have been, others of you already know. On June 4th my brother in-law was in a very serious car accident. They weren’t sure if he would even live. So we spent a week with family in the ICU waiting room. Then of course it took about a week to catch up for being gone for a week.

Sitting in that waiting room I had a lot of time to think about life, and how short it really can be. My brother in-law is only 21 and is life was suddenly and unexpectantly changed that Sunday evening. I mean…do you really get that? What if you never made it home from work tomorrow?

There are still a lot of unknowns in my brother in-laws future and only time will tell what type of recovery he will make. But the whole incident has really brought home to me just how short life can be. We all like to think about things we should do in life, but think, we have all the time in the world to accomplish it. That isn’t necessarily the case.

I hope this hasn’t been too morbid for you. I hope you will read this and think about the priorities of your life. Are you so tied up with living your life that you can’t even enjoy it? I know I am certainly guilty of that one. I certainly don’t want to be remembered as “That guy that developed the number 1 filtering software”. In the big picture things like that don’t matter. When it comes down to it, it isn’t a big fancy house, an expensive car, or one of those awesome flat panel HDTV’s that make life better. There is so much more to get out of life than that.

I could name a thousands things I have never done, but want to. What stops me? What is stopping you?

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