Crushing The Pandemic® Day 206

As a level 17 certified CrushMaster™, I would typically say that getting emotional is for saps and losers. But there is one exception to this very important rule.

When we witness the passing of true CrushLegend™.

Last week, we lost one of the greatest guitar grinders of all time, Edward Van Halen. And I may or may not have shed a tear or twelve thinking about what he meant to this world.

This man crushed it so hard, a legion of guitar players have spent their entire lives trying like hell to replicate his work, virtually all of us failing miserably and hilariously.

And yet we’ve had the time of our freakin’ lives just giving it a shot.

Because EVH didn’t just grind away on the fretboard like a madman virtuoso with freakishly long demon fingers.

He reinvented the whole damn instrument. And did it with joy oozing out of every pore of his body.

This is what the CrushLife™ looks like. And we may never witness anything quite like it again in our lifetimes. But if we could bring 1/10th of that Crushitude™ to whatever work we choose to do, we’d be a bunch of lucky SOBs.

And if we could do it wearing a kickass red and white striped onesie? Even better.