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I've read about him before. He follows a pretty extreme "health" regime. He's pretty obsessed about living longer - but he isn't actually taking any time to liv

• JKCalhoun 3y ago
  Yeah, having lived almost 60 years, living is kind of weird for me. By no means am I wanting to usher in oblivion, but the idea of just living and living and keeping on living seems not just tedious to me but also rather void of purpose. I have to confess though, raising my daughters to adulthood seems to have altered quite a bit of my psyche and sense of self such that, now that the nest is empty, I wonder from time to time what it is I am even still doing here. Having also retired what used to be hobbies to me have become my full time occupation ... and it feels almost hedonistic to just keep on like this.
  • rokkitmensch 3y ago
    Some days on the lift, I feel this way too. "Why am I still doing this? Sit on the chair, slide down the mountain, queue up at the bottom, repeat." Then I go blazing down the hill, or spend time challenging myself with speed in the trees or catching up on all the freestyle stuff I never learned as a kid, and I forget all about the repetitive tedium of life. Until I sit back down on the lift.
• strken 3y ago
  He reminds me a little of my ultralight hiker friend who uses a syringe to fill up his toothpaste tube and is currently experimenting with putting his feet inside ziplock bags instead of bringing camp shoes. This isn't a criticism of either of them. Some people are into micro-optimising their life and find it brings them joy. Maybe he's one of them.