Bookmarks

Most people have certain moments in their life they use to mark everything else. "Before we went to...", "It was after we did...", etc. Those moments are usually amazingly good or devastatingly bad, but whichever category they fall into, they burn themselves into our brains because of the starkly different level of intensity they carried above and beyond everyday life. My friend Dave Scott calls them, bookmarks.

These bookmarks are by their very nature, rare. So what happens when three or four of them all happen at the same time? Which one do you choose to complete the kind of sentences I mentioned? And on a different thought stream, can the normal human being survive so many intense moments all at once? 

The past few weeks combined with the next few weeks have the potential to be steering me towards that strange anomaly, and in all seriousness, I'm scared how I'm going to handle it and furthermore, come out of it. While there are only a handful of you still out there reading ELEVEN, my life is touched by literally hundreds of people, and with that thought comes the question of what my life is really going to look like when the smoke clears. Is this stretch of super-close bookmarks going to be healthy for me, or something completely different? And what is Sam going to look like to the people around me as a result.

I'd say, "Stay tuned," but I just don't know.