Everybody should read this...

and try to take something from it.

Its 33 pages long, however I skipped through to just OZYMANIDAS's posts (Clayton)

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=136505

 

WOW. This really hit home for me as i was within a fraction of an inch to being in his same condition 5 years ago when i broke my back in a motorcycle crash.

I stayed up till 1 am last nite reading,.... and will continue to follow. So sad.

 

that sucks!!!! read first 5 pages can you give us the high lights did he ever get better?? it shows when you leave America your on your own been outta country they have a different way of doing things and no money they ignore you. I hate to leave the U.S.A for that reason and believe it or not others in their country don't like us. i have experinced that in asia.. hope he's okay i would have love to do a long trip like that .....:biggrin: even here i thought about riding the vfr to cali from texas but i hear voices saying trailer your bike there ,ride up 10 see the redwoods then trailor it back. kind of a wimp thing to do but there are way to many dumbaSSES on the road now and makes a trip like that very dangerous...................once again hope he's ok but those things happen to us riders all the time thats why need to gear up and be smart out there..:usa2:

 

Devastating! I started on a KLR. One cannot help feeling for this chap and his family. Too sad. Live live for too soon it is over.

 

WOW!, Im not sure what to say, sounds like a bad twist of fate. He was prepared for just about anything except for what happened psychologically to him. I know that kind of adventure is not my thing, but find it interesting for whos it is. Sounds like if he had just taken his time this story would have ended very differently. If nothing else at least he did something that he wanted to do, just maybe a little too early in life.

 

Wasn't that bittersweet when in Mexico he said "he bagged an American college girl last night?" Probably his last, um, conquest. Can't you just imagine him being paralyzed and remembering things like that? Broken heart is what he died of. And it isn't like the guy gave up right away. He fought hard and kept a good attitude for a long time. Finished his first year of law school in a chair...
We cannot know what it is like to have lived his life.

 

I would've loved to make a trip like that, but not at the cost he paid. Too bad he got paralized. Lost is self steem and took his life. My uncle Miguel got shot 7 times back in 1991. 4 of the bullets hit the spine and got paralized from the waist down. His self steem was real low after the accident. He stayed in the hospital and at home for about 4 years. He decided one day to go back to his work at a bar. He ended up buying the bar from the owner. Now he is a sucessfull bussiness man. Last year his only dauther was born using fertilization in vitro since that was the only way(remember he is paralized from the waist down). Being paralized is hard, but not impossible.

Still it's a sad story. RIP Clayton

 

Yoda! Like you I do. Good points have you, mmmmm.

Always good to remember that there have been many people who have lived happy lives with even worse maladies and afflictions and that there have been millions of able-bodied people with wealth who are miserable and end up killing themselves. Life is what you make it. The only expert on a person is that person. Only you can really tell me what your life is like. Only I can tell you what my life is like. The shame is that many folks kill themselves without reaching out for help when help might have saved them.

Make your life count! LIVE! Help others. Rock on...Good Karma!
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My whole family is real close. I remember that my grandpa also die around that time. But the whole family got together to help my uncle. We all pray for him to get better. He still paralyzed but he's living life. When we go to the beach, he rides a seadoo, swim to the deep and back to shore(With no lifejacket), rides ATVs, dancing with the wheelchair. He didn't stop in front of the obstacles inn life, instead he went around them. To me Life is one so you take the best out of it. If life brings you lemons, you make lemonade. Use the "F_ck it" approach like we do back home in PR, F_uck the problems, the worries, the bad things period. If you let them get to you, they will consume you.

Hey Nungboy. That's Shiva on your avatar?

 

Muy Bien, Yoda. Es verdad! Life is what you make of it.

My Avatar? It is Buddha. A Thai version of Buddha.

 

:doh: My bad. I'm more accustomed to the Chinese Buddha.