From the earliest ages, we are inundated with waves of emotion, doubt, fear, and anxiety. It is as if we are caught in a harrowing maelstrom. It soon becomes self-evident that how we manage this tempest, and the way we protect ourselves from the cold of an emotional winter, dictate the life that we will lead. There are those individuals who experience life not as a distant winter with its apprehension and existential angst (1) but as a blistering summer. These individuals are overwhelmed with a pace and intensity that pulls them in countless directions at once. This is your great friend, with such intelligence and passion that he should be successful and world famous, but in the end succumbs to alcohol, drugs, or bad relationships — and dies at an early age. Such a tragedy!