Sunday, January 15, 2012

Fallen Angels

It's been a long time since I made an effort to write in my Blog. It was just a few months of traveling and being just a bit too tired at night and too busy when the sun was up to sit at the computer.

Then there was a bomb that hit close to home. There was destruction all around.

My heart was hurting, my friends and family were hurting too.

The blast took something from all of us. Someone that means so much.

I felt like I couldn't just write a few words and put up some photos of the fun times and great travels. It was like I needed a break to think of what this life is all about.

What is it in these competitions and in these sports that make us forget what we are? Human. Flesh, blood, and bone.

Why do we risk our lives to do what we love?

Life could be so simple but we choose passion, risk, and life on the edge for a feeling that's even hard to explain.

It's been almost a year since my last blog post on my personal blog but I have made a few other posts for the Skier Boyz http://www.skierboyz.blogspot.com/ and Mammut http://www.mammutathleteteam.blogspot.com/ I just didn't feel right about making an update until I made peace with the loss of my close friend Ryan Hawks. http://flyinryanhawks.org/

I have lost other close friends to the mountains. I will never forget these guys and the others that have moved on into a new reality. Billy Poole http://billypooleskifoundation.org/
John Nicoletta http://www.aspensnowmassshrines.com/index.php?The-John-Nicoletta-Shrine-Aspen-Mountain

This is a hard thing to say but there has been another bomb that hit home again. The loss of another brother that is part of our family. Adam Lawton. He also was doing what he loved, skiing.

It for me is about a feeling that I get when I'm in the moment of greatness, floating across the earths surface like some kind of space age Jetson's character or like the way Fred Flintstone's car skips along from the kick of his feet. (It, what is It, It is everything, It is the life force that is all around us whether or not you see or feel It)

It is what makes you happy or sad. It is love. It is death. It just is. It is all around us all the time.

We all take chances every day whether you think so or not. I'm not going to go on and on trying to prove any kind of point about that. Some of us just have a passion for the more extreme things in life.

I'm just tired of losing people that I love and I want everyone to remember that we are all just human.

When you see your favorite skier or sports star on the big screen and the super human line they just sent or the amazing catch or basket in the last seconds of the game... think of all the lines, throws, and attempts it took to make it all happen. Follow your heart and the passion that drives your life.

Be careful, think twice, and use your common sense.

Don't get me wrong I take chances too. I premeditate and think about my day and what it might become. I use instinct and gut feelings to try and make a day that keeps my drive for life on the edge safe.

Believe it or not these few short sentences have taken me a few days to write. Not only that, but getting the nerve to put in the password to open this editing page of my blog has taken almost a year. I hope what I say will have some impact on the way you think of life. It is precious and fragile. I want people to reach out and tell someone that they care.

Peace and Love.

Crossman, out.

2 comments:

  1. Well said Dylan, reads like you wrote from your heart.

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  2. Hey man,

    Just wanted to let you know "keep your head up" and "press on".... I patrolled 1 season back a day or 2 ago (88'-89') @ Pico it was 1 of the worst snow seasons ever hardly any fresh snow and those famous "bullet proof" conditions most of that entire season. Looking back on it in my eyes it was a once in a life time job (if you could even call getting paid to ski 5 days a week a job)..... But I will always cherish it and the memories I have from it. Just do me this 1 favor u keep doing what u do for "the everyday ordinary normal working guys like me...." Most of all be/stay safe and have a freakin' blast!!!!

    A fellow former patroller,
    Fergy

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