just push on...

It's been a rough start to 2008 for The Digital Bohemian. I found out late last year that a good friend was dying. He passed early New Years morning.

I could go on for hours and pages about my friend. About his life, his accomplishments, his family. I won't though.

If there is one thing that my friend showed me over and over, is that no matter what life hands you, just push on. Decide, move forward and see what life brings next. He hadn't had an easy life, family, business, friends. There was only one thing that ever slowed him down, and it's a lesson that I have learned from him well in what not to do.

I've made progress in the last two years on life long ambitions. I've got a few more waiting in the wings that have been stalled. Stalled by other issues in my life that I can't go into here. I shall borrow a page from my friends life story though. Just push on. Decide, move forward, see what life brings next to me. INFP's easily become paralyzed by too many options, too many choices, too many fears. My friend wouldn't let himself become paralyzed, even after he heard the bad news in September. He pushed on, he moved forward with as much dignity as his illness allowed. He tied up things he needed to.

My friend blazed a trail for me to follow. He taught me an important lesson in his final months. Just push on. If he could do it even to the end, then the blocks to my ambitions are trivial.

Just push on. So you can see what life brings next.

I will...