I am Keith Hernandez

Over the weekend, I watched Man On Wire, the documentary about Phillippe Petit’s breathtaking tightrope walk across the World Trade Center’s twin towers in 1974. The movie is at once an astounding heist film (his high-wire act was unannounced and very illegal) and a re-affirmation in the power of one’s passion, dreams and motivation. From the very energetic Petit:

To me, it’s really so simple, that life should be lived on the edge. You have to exercise rebellion. To refuse to tape yourself to the rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge. Then you will live your life on the tightrope.

Watch it and you will want to really live. Any and everything that you dare thought was impossible gets slammed up against the wall by this film, which yells “Watch me!”