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I know my limits. It’s both humbling and empowering.
If life’s full experience is the wild and unstoppable arc of a pendulum, who wants to live in the middle? Pushing ourselves to the point of feeling fear, shaking off discomfort and summoning courage, challenging ourselves in a way that makes us feel we might die—that is what it means to live.
At the end of our days, when we look back on our lives, what do we want to remember? A comfortable life lived in the middle? Theodore Roosevelt had a thought about people who live that way. “Poor spirits,” he called them, “who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
People are realizing that in order to find themselves, they first must commit to getting lost for a while, to spending unaccustomed time alone, and, frankly, to suffering.
