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est in peace... "that's not gonna happen" Phil was up for anything that involved the water Phil Wilkins (1948 - 2022) Phil was always up for an adventure I have looked back over the last two years of my editorials, and apart from one or two, there is an ongoing common theme. It is obviously, something we all need to be aware of but do these editorials have an effect? Maybe not, but that does not delete the endeavor. To be concise and to summarize the majority of the last two years’ editorial is to say that our only non-renewable asset is time and the overpowering need to use it wisely and effectively. To continue with the cliché, no one ever lay on their deathbed wishing they had spent more time at work. We do not get to choose the hand we are dealt in terms of health; sure, we can improve our chances, but we do not really get a choice. However, the choice you do get is to use the time you are given the best way you can. Phil and wife Sue shared a love of skiing, then later took up snowboarding! Last week a close friend and mentor of mine died. Phil Wilkins, he was kind and generous and intelligent. But he was also active; he surfed, he dived, he biked, he skied, he windsurfed, he paddle-boarded. if there was a moment in the day, he filled it with action. But these activities he did not do alone he involved friends and family he was both the captain and the cheerleader. Then his life was cut short by Parkinson’s disease. As tragic as that is, and it is hugely tragic, Phil could look back on his life and say without a doubt that he could not have squeezed one more moment in; his life was full and well lived, and he filled his cup to the brim and then let it overflow. I will miss the ongoing example of how to live a life, but it installed in me from an early age the need to ‘seize the day’, and his example continues in that you really don’t know how many days you are allotted. When someone passes, people say, ‘rest in peace,’ if there is a sequel to this life, then I am sure Phil is certainly not resting in peace, but he’ll be there squeezing as much as he can out of each and every day. Thanks for the lifelong example. Steve Dickinson - Editor Mountain biking was another of Phil's loves your <strong>Adventure</strong> starts with Us 23 Locations Nationwide | www.radcarhire.co.nz | 0800 73 68 23 | adventure@radcarhire.co.nz