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Assuming that I survive the Hock, how do you think the experience will change me as a person? Do you think it would make my judgment worse, or make me more likely to try crazy shit like this again?
I had a friend who had done some kind of cold wilderness survival challenge thing before I met him. In general I liked him, but whenever he talked about the survival thing, it kind of stalled the conversation, because it wasn't very relatable, and there wasn't really anywhere to go other than "yeah, food stress does sound stressful, yeah" which felt lame and awkward and I felt a bit socially anxious. So I would predict you would be weirder and less approachable than if you spent a comparable amount of time working with a volunteer organization or something.
It would be difficult to relate to, but I think I'd like to pick the brain of someone that did this sort of thing regularly.
Possibly I'm wrong, I haven't been following the whole saga. I'm mostly basing this on the tone of the posts I've seen, rather than their content per say. People who go out exploring or on vision quests or something can be interesting, as long as they focus on something, anything, even inside themselves, other than just pure survival in itself.
I do like, say, Wind, Sand, and Stars a fair bit, but he's not actually talking about mountains or dunes or snowshoes, or anything to really grab a hold of.
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