fear

What are you afraid of? Me, I'm afraid, or was afraid of swimming without a wetsuit. Until this past week, where I swam 1500 meters, in open water, without a wetsuit! Now don't go thinking, that I think i'm the man and can just forsake the wetsuit because I think i'm just that awsome, it's not about that. It's about the fact that the wetsuit was a block, a wall, a crutch, whatever you want to call it, and I was able to break through the wall, throw away the crutch. Now, I am still as equally bad a swimmer without a wetsuit as I am with one, but that's not the point. The point is that I overcame something, I perservered, and for those of us that don't race for money or personal glory, those little battles against oneself are paramount. I don't race for any external validation of my life, I race for my own personal satisfaction, for fulfilling a purpose, for continuing to achieve, and pursuing the perfection of a craft, an art. So go on vacation without your blackberry, without a TV, go running without a heart rate monitor, walk your dog without a leash, go out in the rain without a raincoat, and swim without a wetsuit! It will make you happy.