![]() ![]() I had a good life, but if I look back on it, all of the days pretty much blur together. QUICKSAND MEME FULLThat was my life for a very long time working full time and filling the non-working hours with gym climbing or movies, board games, video games, whatever. That security and predictability offer stability, and for those of us that are as terrified of the unknown as me, it’s easy to think that that’s good enough. ![]() ![]() Probably not great, but probably not terrible either. I like routines and fall into them easily, and they bring me comfort because when there are no new variables to add some spice to any given day, you know things are usually going to work out okay. I like being comfortable, as most people do. It’s a dream I’ve been working up the courage to follow for pretty much my entire life. I end up writing a lot about the path that has lead me to traveling and climbing as much as I do these days, because it has been one of the scariest and most challenging (and thus rewarding) things I’ve ever done. While I think I’m pretty safe from that reality in a physical sense, there is an emotional quicksand that poses a very real danger in my life, and that is the sinkhole that is falling too deep into My Comfort Zone. I think it’s the idea that the harder you fight, the quicker you go down that makes it so scary. Now, the odds of that happening to even the outdoorsiest of people are still negligible, but I think everyone who has ever watched Artax the horse traumatically die in The Neverending Story can relate to the fear of the futile struggle of being stuck in quicksand. My cousin Emily and I pretending to be stuck in the sand in Port Lavaca, Texas as kids In fact, just the other day I read about someone having to get rescued from some quicksand in Zion National Park, and it freaked me the fuck out. There’s a great line by comedian John Mulaney that goes: “Growing up, I always thought that quicksand was going to be a much bigger problem than it turned out to be.” It always makes me laugh because the statement is weirdly accurate I did worry about quicksand as a kid. ![]()
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