MY SECOND LIFE
Simon Yeats
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GENRE: Memoir
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BLURB:
We
all have two lives. We only get to experience living in the second after we
realize we only have just one.
I
have my first real scare in life when I get attacked by a kangaroo when I am
seven. My first brush with the cliff-face edge of death comes when I am 12. My
dad drives the family down the dangerous Skipper’s Canyon dirt road in New
Zealand in a rented minivan.
Including
the occasion I am almost involved in two different plane flight crashes, in the
same night, there have been at least a half dozen more occasions when I have
been within a moment’s inattention of being killed.
However,
none of those frightening incidents compare to what I experience after my son
is abducted.
This
memoir is the story of how I used the traumatic experiences of my life to give
me strength to forge on during a 13 year fight to be a father to my son.
What
did it take for me to get to my second life?
It
took me to truly understand what fear is.
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EXCERPT
How does a
second life differ from a first? My story of reaching the second will
demonstrate it perfectly for those languishing in the latter. I guarantee the
perception of your life will never be the same after reading about it.
What did it
take for me to get to a second life?
Was it an
occasion of cheating death? Was it multiple occasions of evading the grim
reaper? Was it being arrested and thrown in jail for no reason?
Perhaps a
better question might be. How much do I love my child? What am I willing to go
through to be in my child’s only life?
Until recently,
I had never even heard of this saying by Confucius. But, when a person sees
something that resonates with a chord in their heart, they feel it.
I felt it like
an earthquake.
Before then, I
had never given thought to who I might have ever met that I would consider was
living a second life.
Yet this would
seem to be our very point of being.
While there
have been many occasions in my existence when I have felt like the world is
against me. The true nature of life often seems a cruel device. Callous.
Savagely unforgiving. And the puppeteer of fate in control of all our lives
does not seem to care that we do not want it to be this way.
How many people
would admit that they are suffering during their first life?
Rhetorical
question.
We all are.
Some more than others. But we all are.
Not
surprisingly then, that humanity thrives on the ever-unfolding tragedies around
us. The devastation of the tsunami in Thailand. The OJ Simpson trial. World War
Two concentration camps. The collective work of The Cure and The Smiths.
If it bleeds,
it leads.
This is what
people want to see.
But the hordes
in their first life are primarily concerned with the suffering of the mighty.
However, many
of us are not mighty.
Most of us are
ordinary.
And the
suffering in our first life is done in silence.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Simon
Yeats has lived nine lives, and by all estimations, is fast running out of the
number he has left. His life of globetrotting the globe was not the one he
expected to lead. He grew up a quiet, shy boy teased by other kids on the
playgrounds for his red hair. But he developed a keen wit and sense of humor to
always see the funnier side of life.
With
an overwhelming love of travel, a propensity to find trouble where there was
none, and being a passionate advocate of mental health, Simon’s stories will
leave a reader either rolling on the floor in tears of laughter, or breathing
deeply that the adventures he has led were survived.
No
author has laughed longer or cried with less restraint at the travails of life.
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