An Absolute Sense of Life
Posted on 06. Apr, 2011 by Anthony Johnson in Uncategorized
The most frequent comment I’ve heard about Curtis, before and since his death, is some variation of “how much he loved his life”.
Everyone has their own way of expressing it – but as far as I can tell, everyone means and is recognizing the same thing in Curtis.
That he loved his life. That he had an overwhelming, almost blinding enthusiasm for it. That he possessed an indescribable level of curiosity and degree of fascination for everything and everyone he encountered.
You literally couldn’t keep him down. Joy was the norm. Setbacks and unfortunate events were just roadblocks, soon to be left in the dust, no matter how big or bad they might seem at first.
- Total your car? Move on. Life’s incredible.
- Watch your Jeep sink in the ocean? Movin right along. Life’s incredible.
- Get in trouble with the law? Moving on. Life’s incredible.
- Feel lost and without a purpose in life? Pressing on. Life’s incredible – every second of it.
This was an attitude we all cherished in Curtis. I think we cherish it for two reasons. One, because it is something we know we are capable of, and desire to live. And two … it is something very rarely seen today. It is almost unheard of – yet we know it to be possible, even if it ends up looking different from Curtis’s depiction when we express it.
What I’d like to point out today, is something that’s taken me a long time to understand – that the attitude Curtis lived his life by, was an expression of something much deeper.
It was an expression of how much he loved his life. And love, in the most general sense, is to value.
In essence, Curtis valued his life and the joy living it brought him, to the highest degree possible – absolutely and completely.
As much as a person can.
While Curtis was not perfect, and sometimes got the details wrong living his life (speeding tickets come to mind), this — the most important part — was utterly consistent.
That he valued his life all the way down to the point that was possible to him. 100%. And he never let anything hold him back from that. Ever.
— Anthony
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