RIP Evan Tanner

above image is some dog in South Florida that I wanted to punt kick but he ended up mellowing out and being kind of cute:

My friend had a problem with her passport so I ended up flying to Miami for a week or so. Sadly I am still here. Nothing against the States but it's just not for me right now. As soon as I stepped of the plane I was bombarded with fast cars, cell phones and billboards. It's amazing how easily people get sucked into this shit. If I had a dime for every BMW I saw in in S Florida I would be typing this blog from Maldives while drinking a shandy. Needless to say I am with family in Orlando now which I do enjoy so I'll be making the most of my short time here. I miss my scooter, good waves, and crazy cat.

My cousin, who fights MMA showed me the headline about a fighter who died in the CA desert.

Read on Yahoo news:
Here

His name was Evan Tanner. What caught my attention was not the fact that he died or was a champion MMA fighter it was his writings. If you get a chance to read them they are pretty good. Especially if you're in search for that sense of virtue that exist deep within inside . Near the end of his life he was surfing and exploring. He started his career from watching video tapes from Gracie fighters. Near the end he was writing about the true meaning of living.

"It is a shame that in this society we've been taught to judge a man's worth by what he owns instead of who he is. Everything is surface, and so few look beyond it. A man will sell his soul, he will lie, cheat and steal, for money. If he has it, he can buy respect. Wear the right clothes, drive the right car, have the right friends, that's all that matters. Our lives are consumed in a selfish, self absorbed quest for possessions, the latest and the best in a never-ending cycle until the day we die. We forget what it means to be truly human. We forget the things that really matter. We lose the magic of what life should be.

I won't live by rules that make no sense to me.

- Evan Tanner"

Blog can be found:
Here