Live is Life

I think Opus chose to sing "Live is life" because it rolls off the tongue better
than "Life is live." They really wanted to scream "Life is live," but it just
didn't jibe as lyrics. They decided instead to take some poetic license with the
phrase. It has now been enshrined in one of the most popular jock jams in modern
sports history. If you ever go to a Dartmouth hockey game, listen as the home
team skates out onto the ice. You'll hear it. It's amazing.

It's such an amzaing and inspiring song that I decided to name my blog after it.
You'll find a little excerpt from the lyrics under the title at the top of the
home page. Basically what Opus is saying is that life comes at you fast and
there's not a lot of time to react. You're like a goalie in a hockey being
sprayed left and right by slapshots during a power play (bad simile, check). You
don't have time to think. You just play. And while you're out there, you and
your team "all give the best, every minute of an hour don't think abou the
rest..." etc. Live is life.

I'm fond of rhetorical questions, my favorite being, "Is not life a hunred times
too short to bore ourselfes?" By asking this question, ol' Fred Nietzsche
implores us to take advantage of our lives and not to bore ourselves with
contentment. We should live with a master's, not a slave's, mentality: be noble,
brave, intrepid. If Nietzsche were alive now, he'd be an Opus fan.

Now, with Nietzsche's advice and Opus' music egging me on, I'm preparing for a
trip to Namibia to find out just how "live" life is. I've created this blog as a
way for me to keep in touch with you and vice versa while I'm over there. I find
that I'm more inclined to read a long blog post than a long email, so instead of
getting long, boring, philosophical emails that you'll want to delete because
you hate reading long emails, you will be able to (at your convenience) read
exciting, interesting, evocative blog posts. Yeah!

Now, it's time to get the show on the road. Live is Life.