hospital visit

A couple of things happened yesterday.  One positive and one quite hard.

First off, the Golf Channel ran a piece about The Dan Plan which was well done and fun to watch.  I saw it while at Heron Lakes and it was a trip to see myself on TV talking about the project.  One thing I realized is that every time someone shoots some video of me practicing, by the time I view the video I already feel like I have improved dramatically since the date of the shoot.  It seemed like it had been a year since the Golf Channel filmed and I’m at a completely different stage in my game, even though it has only been a couple of months, but perhaps this is how you progress at such an early stage in the game.

From this bit of press, I received a few emails, half of which were positive and half negative.  I honestly don’t mind criticism of the project and feel like getting hate mail, in a way, means that I am doing something right in the world.  Eliciting responses from both sides of the field means that the project is interesting enough to start a discussion and hopefully inspire people in a positive way.

The hard thing that happened yesterday was a good friend of mine was in an accident and I spent most of the night with him in the ER.  Currently, I’m sitting by his bed in the ICU where he is completely sedated and has been intubated.  The doctors say he will recover, but that it was touch and go at a couple points over night.

I don’t want this coming off as cliche, but spending the night/morning with a friend in the ICU can be a good reminder of how precious life can be.  It’s so easy to take health for granted.  Also, I’m sitting here catching up on emails next to my friend while he begins to recover from his accident and I can’t help but wonder why someone would spend part of their day writing hate mail letters.  Perhaps I just have too much time to think right now, but it seems unnecessary to me.

At any rate, accidents can happen.  We all know this, it is part of life.  There is no way to avoid these things completely and the only thing that we can do is try and enjoy as much of life as we can.  The past 12 hours have put things in better perspective for me and oddly enough have inspired me to go out and train harder.  There is only so much time we have and it might as well be spent pursuing a passion.

Again, I am not trying to be cliche with this blog, but felt like I there were a couple of thoughts worth noting over the last day.  Please take from it what you will and feel free to write more hate mails if you desire, it honestly will not bother me.