Neale Daniher

I was saddened just about to the point of tears on hearing of Neale Danihers passing.  Rarely have I seen someone face something so terrible and final with such courage.
One of the things that impressed me a lot was his attitude.  It was not so much a matter of accepting without a fight but accepting something that came his way uninvited but with a readiness to fight it.
He was a former player and then coach of AFL.  As a coach he had many good motivational sayings but to me there is a huge difference between saying good stuff in the fight of life and good stuff in the fight for life.
The one that impresses me most at the moment was his saying “when all is said and done more is said then done.”  I honestly do not want to be like that.  It is so easy to make promises in the emotion of the moment and forget about them when they are bothersome and inconvenient to the moment.
Probably no one else is like me in that sometimes it is a relief that another has not taken me up on “if there is anything I can do just let me know.”  Ok that is not always the case, but it can be.
Of late I have not been well.  Ok I was not dying but I did feel like withdrawing from activities and keeping a very low profile.  There can be a time for that.  But I did feel big time that it was not all about me and I wanted Merril to be able to enjoy some of the things we normally enjoy together.  So I made adjustments and we have not missed a thing.
Why bring that up?  Because I genuinely feel that right decisions now make future right decisions easier.  To me life is not about doing what is right only when I feel like it but doing what is right because it is right.  That may be a learned skill, but I reckon it is a skill worth learning.