Haven't updated in a while but I've been pretty busy between work and life and stuff. Charlotte's been up for the past few days which has been great and I've been getting enough shifts at work though I need more to make sure I actually put money away this summer. I have also bought a membership at the Boiler Room for the summer and have put it to good use so far. I forgot how much I enjoy climbing. It's one of the more interesting sports (if you can call it that) for it requires two people to do (at least the actual climbing a route part) but the success is all personal.
What I mean is that unlike many other sports, how you rate in comparison to someone else is unimportant. Climbing is one of those sports in which "success" is entirely based on beating your own limitations. It's not that there isn't a competition to Climbing but rather I guess the people I've climbed with choose not to treat it that way. It's one of the most rewarding feelings to be able to accomplish something you couldn't do before. A real sense of accomplishment and improvement. It's also amazing how if you beat your own record, it's really self-motivating, a real boost... But if you fail to exceed your own expectations it's quite devastating. I suppose in a way it's worse to loose to yourself then anyone else.
I wonder how much better people would feel if we didn't hold ourselves to a criteria set by others but rather only set out to exceed our own expectations. Of course, that idea is a pipe-dream, and not even a very good idea. With no competition would we actually bother to improve? Are humans self-motivated enough to bother to exceed their expectations?
In other news... My thesis still sits un-started on my shelf... Sigh...
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