Several of you know that tragedy hit my family. My stepbrother in law, Nate, was killed this week, electrocuted while on the job. He was only 28. My beautiful stepsister is a widow in her twenties. And I woke the other morning, with the words I wrote for one of my videos echoing in my ears. I hope I am brave enough to live them:

“Death could come for us at any second. We are breathtakingly fragile. Recognize that you are human, that you are mortal, that your time here, in cosmic terms, is a blip of a blip. But that is what makes us so precious. Our lives are defined by our limitations. We are exquisite precisely because we are rare--because we are born, bloom, and perish. And when this life ends--and it will end for us all, prince and pauper--all we experienced, all we loved, all we learned, all we changed, will vanish. You only get this one chance, this one chance to experience this exquisite planet. The world is vast and full of wonder. Replace judgment with curiosity and explore. Be famished, every day, to learn something new. Love incandescently and be loved the same in return. Laugh as often as possible. Instigate happiness--for yourself and for those around you. Aid in transforming the suffering of others whose brief flicker in this universe may be one of pain and anguish. Stop judging others and trying to control how they live and who they love. Stop killing time, treading water and running in place. Stop limiting yourself. Risk standing out. Dare to be unique and unfettered. Dare to dream big and live even bigger. This is it. This is all you get. One life. No exceptions. How will you make your life...extraordinary?!”

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