pigsteak wrote:only at the high end of climbing, where sponsorships are at stake and folks make their living do these issues even matter. for the rest of us, talking smack about doing our first 12a, onsighting 12b, beating into submission a 13a,etc..is an exercise in self absorption no different than what we are smugly pretending exists at the highest echelon....
do not even for a minute lie and say you do not look at your ticklist, watch your rankings on here, whether it is by overall routes climbed or your hardest sends, try to massage an insecurity and beat your partner to the send, bolt ad nauseum routes to somehow pretend you are significant in this world, check if your brah from the gym sent the route you just did, try to spit them off some problem at the sweaty sack bouldering gym that you have wired, pull off your shirt to make sure everyone truly knows you are a skinny ass white boy,bitch about the crowds, feel superior because you can smack talk Muir, be pro or con on fixed draws, post 10k times on a forum, hate blue jeans, wish all babies and dogs at the crags would disappear, dream that trad is pure....gag me with a spoon little kiddies.
it all stems from the fact that we are self absorbed useless masses of water, fart stained and delusional about how much our existence matters at the Red or any climbing area. No one cares....seriously, no one cares. you are nothing, and the sooner you come to grips with that the less time you will waste away your life pretending climbing is some bad ass experience. its not..it just removes you from the pathetic mess you made in your 'real life'....quit running from that fact and grow up.
And... were done here
