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It's been raining today, which feels just right. On any other Friday I'd be disappointed with a rainy Friday since it feels prognostic of a dreary week end. But not today. Today I say let it pour. This is the weather that would've seemed fitting eight years ago on this date.
The desolate contrast of those plane catastrophes and the gorgeous crystalline weather seemed insulting in the rawest of ways, as if Mother Nature had played the cruelest slight-of-hand. Here! Imagine the most crystalline, sparkling September day and then layer onto that image the most horrible devastation New Yorkers have ever lived through.
It seems in equal ways like a distant nightmare as well as like something that happened yesterday.
I fondly remember our gym friend Michael Rothberg who worked for Cantor Fitzgerald.
What a great guy! Michael w as a front row fixture in my Saturday morning class and we always teased him because he was so germaphobic. He'd wipe down his bike before and after class and this was back in the days before antiseptic gym wipes were even invented. He was the guy who patented the bathroom germ-free getaway technique of wiping your hands on the paper towel and then before throwing the towel out, using it to open the bathroom door and while propping the door open with your foot, making the big toss of towel to trash can. Voila! No germs!
And look what good did it for him. My lesson from him (Thank You, Michael!) is that no tomorrow is promised.
If there is a thimbleful of good that came out of the truckload of devastation from September 11 , not that it would be worth it in any way, but we all did snap out of our zombie mode and realized, even if only briefly, that our life is right now. And that's what I want to say today. Our life's not later. It's not when we retire. It's not when our kids grow up. It's not when we get our bigger house or more money or lose those last ten pounds. Our life is right now. It'll always be right now. Your challenge for the second week of my three week fitness challenge is to decide to start enjoying your life right now, because it's not ever going to get better than right now, until it gets better right now!
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