I’ve been bitten hard. It’s been years – over 13 in fact. And I just thought I’d dip my toe in the water, and something huge and undeniable grabbed it and pulled me in, wholesale. I’m talking about being back in the outdoors, Specifically kayaking on rivers –
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I had an epiphany the other day. An epiphany – as I discovered – is a moment of sudden and great revelation or realisation. (according to my trusty Mac’s dictionary) A veritable bolt of lightening, A switching on of the lightbulb, A penny dropping. What was it?
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My first religious experience was in a fish and chip shop playing the video game Gauntlet. You may know it from your youth? (Showing my age here) But the point is, Time seriously stood still. There was no “Valkyrie is about to die” (she was the best) because I couldn’t lose.
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Found a quote, purportedly by the Don himself. Regardless of your opinion of him he’s hit the nail on the head right here: ___________________ “I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That’s where the fun is.” ___________________ I’m not going to get into
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Humans need certainty. Now certainty is a tricky thing. What is really certain in this world? When I first discovered adventures in the outdoors, one of the things I loved about it was the difference sense of certainty from what I was used to. I’d go and be in these wild places and test myself
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So 7 people died in the Alps over a single week recently. You probably heard about it, you might have even known some of them. When I first realised you could die doing these very cool, very life-affirming and life-enhancing things in the outdoors I was shocked. At the time, the news that a friend
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So there’s a guy who is bored of his job – … and so he sues his employer. Awesome! Pass all your responsibility on how you feel over to someone else. I actually can’t believe this happened. But the BBC reports it, so it may have a smidgeon of truth.
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You ever know anyone who is everywhere, doing everything? Seems like they know how to bend time in that they get so much done – And yet they have the same 24 hour day as everyone else. I know a guy who is awesome in this sense. He has his own (great) business, an awesome
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Watched a cool film the other night – one I didn’t expect to like, even though it has my man Hugh Jackson in it: “Eddie the Eagle” You know – about the ski jumper back in the 1988 Olympics … Go watch it, it’s cool and very inspiring, actually. What did I get from it?
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You ever have those moments where you feel more out of control than in? Spend a whole day on Sunday feeling just that. I was kayaking – on a more challenging river than usual. In the warmup I was just feeling out of touch, not connected to my boat, to the river, to anything. Whatever
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