Getting out there (6/10/14)

Someone asked me what I was passionate about recently, and my answer to him was living. I was robbed of nearly three years where I never left the house with the exception of doctors visits and a very rare trip to the movies. Confinement was one of the many drawbacks of living on a feeding tube.

Part of my problem was that the weather would cause me to sweat off my protective bandages quicker than a gator would inhale a child at a petting zoo. The other part was my immune system was so depleted from chemo that the common cold may as well have been the Bubonic Plague as far as I was concerned.

So now I like to get out and do things whenever, and wherever I can. That’s a fringe benefit of this book tour. I’m hoping to cram three or four years worth of life experience into 10 months time. Even though the book tour starts on August 5th with the release of Average Joe’s Story: Quest for Confidence I have already begun to get to work making up for lost time. I have a half dozen events scheduled and I’m trying to schedule more every day. I was fortunate. I got to see that life was passing me by while I still had an opportunity to do something about it. Most people I know either have woken up or will wake up one morning and realize that it’s too late. I’m glad that I no longer count myself amongst them.