"The soul often knows what the body needs, the trick is to convince the mind"
I saw this quote recently while on a rather laborious duration of ski touring, not a 'typical' day out, this was a 24 hour ski a thon including 8800m of elevation and required one to 'dig a little deeper' then normal. I knew it would not be type 'A' fun at the get go but given the company, the cause and a strange idiosyncratic curiosity I had to see if i could 'get through it', I was in.
The above quote met every contestant as they slogged uphil, at about the 3/4 mark of a 450 M climb. If you did the thing solo(which I was coerced into), that would mean 18 views of the quote, a team of three meant 6, 2 meant 9; you get it. The wonderful simplicity and meaning of these words have hit a chord and since then I think I have made a few decisions differently...
You see, dear reader, I am guilty of advanced FOMO (fear of missing out) when it comes to skiing and I do not like it, not one bit. Every other 'sport' I do does not involve this interesting F word at all, climbing, biking, running, dog walking, hiking...nope, just skiing. The other day, while considering a ski outing I have been wanting to do since I first heard of it and my mind was a blaze with the thought, I looked at the +21 temps and trying very very very hard to think of a reason to go it hit me like a tonne of bricks, why force something when it doesn't make sense (to you) to do it?
Instead, I enjoyed the wonderful weather, grabbed rock shoes, bikes, hung with Erin and poured espresso. Its bound to get colder again and if not, what can you do?
This may be a small step in eradicating the FOMO bug.
"The soul often knows what the body needs, the trick is to convince the mind"
