why do you climb?
I climb cus the view is probably better from up there, if I could just make it. it wasn't till I was twenty or so that I realized they had ropes and such to keep me from dying in my pursuit of the top. Now its the sandstone that has seeped into my veins, and the memory of the movement that allowed me to make the clip.
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How you compare may not be as important as to whom you are compared
The Zen thing can't be all there is, if so we are only climbing stuff that we can do. There must be some latent drive powered by failure and self doubt that gets us on more difficult stuff. I think Wes' sig answered why climb in a nutshell, "pummel the body and (to) purify the soul. When I think of Zen, I don't think pummel.
We could just be pawns in DNA's game, our species has a habit of going up hill when we don't have to . . . why build the pyramids, run the marathon, drive the convertible Beamer, etc? These extreme individual forays are survivalist strategies for the whole.
Perhaps we climb because we are really Chimpanzees. Climbing pries away the thin veneer that we call civilization to expose the animal. In this climbing falls into the class/set containing sex, love, eating, defecation, running, jumping, swimming and etc. Somehow the Gumby world has managed to avoid climbing.
We could just be pawns in DNA's game, our species has a habit of going up hill when we don't have to . . . why build the pyramids, run the marathon, drive the convertible Beamer, etc? These extreme individual forays are survivalist strategies for the whole.
Perhaps we climb because we are really Chimpanzees. Climbing pries away the thin veneer that we call civilization to expose the animal. In this climbing falls into the class/set containing sex, love, eating, defecation, running, jumping, swimming and etc. Somehow the Gumby world has managed to avoid climbing.