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humanodon  ·  3707 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: When do you feel alive?

To answer your question in the smallest sense: when I'm walking I feel alive and sometimes when I'm writing. In the larger sense, like kb, I like motorcycles. I also like swimming in the ocean. It can be a weird feeling, jumping into the ocean from a boat, far from shore, knowing that only the power of one's own controlled muscle movements are what separates one from death. I've always found it kind of funny that "treading water" is such a funny way to characterize a life that isn't really going anywhere.

When I was younger, I would sometimes get into fist fights with my roommate. Not out of malice, but rather, on several occasions we agreed that getting into a fight would be a good way to wake up the senses and snap us out of whatever kind of funk we might have been in. Also, I once provoked him into a fight because he was dating a terrible, terrible girl who said she would leave him if he fought me.

I guess more generally, experiences that make me aware of my own physical, mental or emotional capabilities/limits in a real way, whether by overcoming something, or working through a situation, or even through losing.