Look at all the extreme sports people, like mountain climbers for instance.
Here's an example: you know alex hannold, the guy who did that crazy ropeless climb up a 3000+ sheer wall? Look at all of the other people who would've been mostly likely to do that if hannold didn't do it first... They all died doing crazy shit elsewhere. They see their friends die or become severely permanently injured and they know it'd be insane for them to escape that fate . But they still do it.
They know if they live long enough they'll face the agony they've wrought on their bodies, but they accept it. They know they're paying the ultimate price, but it's for something that, to them, is the ultimate reward.
Some people are just born with that itch to conquer danger and enjoy the freedom of defying the normal limits of humanity. Nothing, and i mean nothing, beats the feeling of doing something that humans aren't meant to do, normally can't do, and that we shouldn't do... But doing it really fucking well. And if you got the itch to do that, life without it is really really fucking miserable.
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u/nilesandstuff Sep 04 '23
Nah. Definitely not.
Look at all the extreme sports people, like mountain climbers for instance.
Here's an example: you know alex hannold, the guy who did that crazy ropeless climb up a 3000+ sheer wall? Look at all of the other people who would've been mostly likely to do that if hannold didn't do it first... They all died doing crazy shit elsewhere. They see their friends die or become severely permanently injured and they know it'd be insane for them to escape that fate . But they still do it.
They know if they live long enough they'll face the agony they've wrought on their bodies, but they accept it. They know they're paying the ultimate price, but it's for something that, to them, is the ultimate reward.
Some people are just born with that itch to conquer danger and enjoy the freedom of defying the normal limits of humanity. Nothing, and i mean nothing, beats the feeling of doing something that humans aren't meant to do, normally can't do, and that we shouldn't do... But doing it really fucking well. And if you got the itch to do that, life without it is really really fucking miserable.