A long while back I was A Vegan Adventurer, then it was A Vegan Abroad, then A Vegan Mess (all apt for the time), and now… it feels like A Vegan Adventurer is the right fit for me after all. It’s just taken a little growing into.
Category: climbing
Climbing: a kind of meditation
But when I’m on the wall, when I’m working out the next move, trying not to fall, thinking about placing my feet, my mind is free of everything else. I’m not freaking out about rejection, stressing out about my workload – none of it. It’s bliss. It really is.
“There is an 80-90% chance the bone will die, disintegrate, and collapse.”
“And you’ve already lost all side mobility in that ankle. That’s gone.”
Laying in a hospital bed, high on morphine, I stared at a surgeon who was explaining to me in no uncertain terms that I had FUCKED UP.
Vegfest burgers, Attack on Titan, & Crowd-surfing with You Me at Six
A weekend of cuteness, happiness, and shoving misogynistic boys at gigs.
It’s just you and the wall: the psychology of failing again, and again, and-
And I think it’s because, in the real world, I:
Give up pretty easily when I fail at something, thinking “well, I guess this isn’t for me after all”.
Don’t even try in the first place because I am so absolutely terrified of failing that I would rather hold onto the dream of reaching something than actually try to reach it and fail.
The Climbing Vegan
So, I got my first pair of climbing shoes today, eeeeee! They are beeaaaautiful. For the past few weeks I’ve been renting shoes, as I was trying to figure out whether I’d stick with climbing long enough to invest in some, but after realising I was spending so much money renting shoes that had been […]
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