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Okay, so - ugh.
Easter weekend is going to be a tough one for walkers, bikers, outdoors-ers - haunted by previous years of gallivanting.
But maybe it's also a challenge to copy a bit of the fortitude shown by the people we always say we'd love to be like.
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Easter weekend is going to be a tough one for walkers, bikers, outdoors-ers - haunted by previous years of gallivanting.
But maybe it's also a challenge to copy a bit of the fortitude shown by the people we always say we'd love to be like.
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As a scifi-loving kid, I wanted to be an astronaut, like how I later wanted to be an archaeologist after watching Indiana Jones.
Then I *was* an archaeologist (briefly), & found it wasn't about replacing golden idols with bags of sand & then running like the clappers.
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Then I *was* an archaeologist (briefly), & found it wasn't about replacing golden idols with bags of sand & then running like the clappers.
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But actually *being* an astronaut seems to be about studying insanely hard, getting physically tough in a way that's hard for folk like me to comprehend, & then locking yourself in a metal box for months at a time:
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-nasa-astronaut-tips-advice-quarantine-lockdown-2020-3
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https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-nasa-astronaut-tips-advice-quarantine-lockdown-2020-3
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Same with terrestrial adventurers, like those on polar expeditions on foot.
Or the admirable, heroic and clearly mad-as-forks solo sailors who did this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Times_Golden_Globe_Race
(Grab this book for a gut-churning retelling of it: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Quest-Adventure-Chris-Bonnington/dp/0340417005 - h/t @Al_Humphreys)
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Or the admirable, heroic and clearly mad-as-forks solo sailors who did this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Times_Golden_Globe_Race
(Grab this book for a gut-churning retelling of it: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Quest-Adventure-Chris-Bonnington/dp/0340417005 - h/t @Al_Humphreys)
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All these things are, in one sense, selfish. They're done to push the limits of what's possible, but they're rarely a matter of life or death to folk not involved.
This is different:
https://www.legalnomads.com/coronavirus/
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This is different:
https://www.legalnomads.com/coronavirus/
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So if you're not frontline-useful (like me), staying home is the best thing to do. So you swallow your pride and admit that right now, you're useless.
But it's also a tiny insight into what it's *really* like to work as, say, an astronaut: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/tips-astronauts-submariners-self-isolation/
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But it's also a tiny insight into what it's *really* like to work as, say, an astronaut: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/tips-astronauts-submariners-self-isolation/
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And maybe part of that, to quote @mrdavidwhitley, is to "stop trying to enforce miserable, joyless living on people who are behaving suitably responsibly."
Spending Easter weekend yelling at people (who aren't listening anyway) doesn't sound like an adventure worth having.
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Spending Easter weekend yelling at people (who aren't listening anyway) doesn't sound like an adventure worth having.
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Anyway.
All this is crappy and awful. And just getting through it in one piece is everything.
But if you want, there's also stuff to learn about the reality of those adventure stories we all grew up with. Not really comparable (Netflix vs frostbite? Hm...) - but maybe a taste.
All this is crappy and awful. And just getting through it in one piece is everything.
But if you want, there's also stuff to learn about the reality of those adventure stories we all grew up with. Not really comparable (Netflix vs frostbite? Hm...) - but maybe a taste.
