SED 05: Thinking

[kerravonsen]

Stumbled across this in my websurfing: "I'm not telling you it's going to be easy. I'm telling you it's going to be worth it."

My first thought was "if it was easy, it would eventually be boring". We actually do like challenges. When we have enough energy and have rested enough from our stress, we do stuff. Human beings are kind of crazy when you think about it: we do difficult things for fun! We are so needy for mental stimulation that we invented these things called "games" which make us think hard when we don't have to!

Weird.

Comments

[kerravonsen]

I used to belong to the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism). I would spend hours constructing garb, and making things that had no use in the modern world.

One reason I didn't join the SCA, though it was tempting, was that it was clear from the people I saw in our local group, that one would have to dedicate one's entire life to it in order to do it "properly", and I wasn't mad-keen enough to do that.

I love to make things that are challenging and difficult just because I can.

That sense of accomplishment is something money can't buy.

[dreamflower]

Yes, for many of my friends (and for me when I did it) it pretty much was a way of life. But when I moved it wasn't the same.

That sense of accomplishment is something money can't buy.

*nods*