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by gaius
6513 days ago
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Scuba diving, mountaineering, you can always tell who gets it. Take responsibility for your own life and your friends lives in the most direct way possible, and make friends that you trust completely with your own. I got no respect for tourists who go bungee jumping and think they're "extreme" when someone else has made sure they're actually perfectly safe. |
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My thing is flying. As an instrument pilot, it's all in my head. You go up in a dark, rainy night and it's just you and the airplane. There are no "easy" buttons. You're managing dozens of variables real-time all the while keeping the plane level. In hard IMC on a low approach, there's no goofing off -- even for a couple of seconds. You get those "what the heck am I doing here" moments, but then again, there are experiences that I've had that you could never reproduce. Either your shit is together or -- you're dead. It's a mind game where the stakes are your life.
Good stuff.