Yahoo Canyons Group

Haunted by a members passing

By RAM · August 1, 2012

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AuthorRAM
DateAugust 1, 2012
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  • Tim Vollmer
    14 years ago Reply

    RAM, Thanks for that post. I have to admit to being quite haunted by it myself. I (unfortunately) usually only get the chance to skim over the emails from this group, reading in detail only the ones that most grab me, so I’d missed Michael’s comments. He makes some wonderful points, about ego, about adventure, about family, about why we do what we do. All valuable points normally, but in the context of where he would have been in his own life when he wrote them, all the more poignant. Thank you for pointing them out to us all and ensuring they were read and re-read in the way Michael would have wanted. The important parts of life certainly become clearer in the mind the closer you approach to death.

    Tim Vollmer Mob: 0404 273 313 Email: tim.vollmer@gmail.com Web: http://www.fatcanyoners.org/

  • kuenn_k2
    14 years ago Reply

    Ram,

    Thanks for sharing that, even though it’s some sobering stuff for a Wednesday afternoon.

    Introspective too are your own reflections: “going means you just blew it!! That you broke the heart of those that love you. That you left responsibilities unfinished all over the place. That young people that love you often have future commitment issues when one they love leaves, for whatever reason, during their formative years. That it is just unacceptable to die under these circumstances, doing these trivial, self indulgent exercises, even if they fill your soul.”

    On one hand, truer words were never spoken, on the other, it is difficult to measure the cost to future generations when one turns aside from pursuing “noble” passions. Therein lies the rub; determining what is noble. We like to glamorize the super-human event, feat or accomplishment and yet they’re happening all about us each day in micro. Motivation and resolve to succeed is derived at all levels of achievement, and in many venues.

    I wonder if Robert Frost was struggling in the same vein when he penned, “I shall be telling this with a sigh, somewhere ages and ages hence: two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference”.

    — In Yahoo Canyons Group, “RAM” wrote:

    A recent participant on this forum passed away, apparently by his own hand. The story and three of his last posts here leave me a bit haunted and confused. Very sad

    http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/07/27/12991545-autopsy-confirms-arsonist-committed-suicide-in-arizona-courtroom?lite

    > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canyons/message/63512

    > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canyons/message/63534

    > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canyons/message/63551