Vanity is a benefit; it's hardly the only benefit. We'll spend maybe $100,000 on phone bills in our lives, I wonder would I be happier with a bunch of Instagra

Vanity is a benefit; it's hardly the only benefit. We'll spend maybe $100,000 on phone bills in our lives, I wonder would I be happier with a bunch of Instagram alerts, or having crossed the Antarctic alone; what would create fonder memories? Experiences that have been had by others don't impact you. I can look at a picture of Earth from NASA all I want, it'll never hit my core in the way it would if I went up there. What if you crossed it alone and didn't tell anyone you'd done it, and vanity wasn't the same sort? Living alone in the woods is one thing, living alone in the woods and posting it all to social media is a little different. Can you really imagine no benefit to a man doing something to challenge himself? This is no Everest tourist expedition with 1000 other climbers and an enormous support staff of locals, this is daring? Why should we ever try anything that anyone has ever done before? Should we then just stay home? Even if it provides nothing to these men, at the barest minimum they have inspired some long thought in others; after all, we're all sitting here thinking about it. I've been thinking about it, and talking to friends about being alone in the wilderness, for the better part of the day now.