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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 12, 2012 - 03:05pm PT
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Jul 12, 2012 - 03:07pm PT
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Do....not live to a ripe, old age. Try.....to get my fear back.
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briham89
Big Wall climber
los gatos. ca
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Jul 12, 2012 - 03:09pm PT
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an a5 route
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 12, 2012 - 03:18pm PT
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I would get a base rig and start jumping off cliffs.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Jul 13, 2012 - 10:21am PT
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to your elastic inquiry
i offer a brittle response,
i am doing along without fear,
though i am not pushing it's reciprocal, that courage.
i've received a dishonorary degree in insanity,
shoved my mind, fearlessly and martyr-like, across psychological thresholds, just for a glimpse and taste of a realm
where uncommon sense thrives.
a little bit of death is beautiful.
full death can be beautiful, i've seen it.
i bid farewell to my worse half while sitting
in jail cell, my rap sheet doubling as my diploma.
my credentials now disinclude the honorable life discourses of fatherhood and husbandry.
every day, i thrash thru alone and unafraid.
my job promotes no peer interaction.
in my climbing pursuits i partner with a cold, hard steel device (no offense silent partner).
sometimes i try to reenter your world, and i fling about
the place friendship attempts, but im not a sustainable bud.
it matters not to reality.
it matters not to imagination.
explosions of zeal ignite infernos of depression.
my heart is not of muscles and valves nor within it dwells squishy emotions.
its a brick pushing sand and gravel thru my veins,
it only knows harmless hate, issued at my world thru dark cliches
without much abandon.
devoid of fear i've done a life or two,
many failures kicking my teeth out,
and me flashing my ugly smile anyway.
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Jul 13, 2012 - 10:28am PT
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I would try pyschological evaluation. Fear is necessary and natural, if you have none, you might want to figure out why...like Dingus said, become human again.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jul 13, 2012 - 11:26am PT
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fear is a natural thing...
confronting fear and executing in its presence requires a bit of calculated risk taking at best.
I noticed in my late teens that I really didn't fear going fast and being out of control. That's a pretty dangerous combination when you are riding a motor bike, or skiing, for instance. Skiing is a particular problem since the normal venue for me on ice and snow is way more vertical than most ski slopes, "how hard could it be?" looking down a double-black-diamond run? well if you have blue-circle sort of experience it could be trouble.
While I still ride, it's a pedal bike, though when you're going down off the hills around here and exceeding the speed limit, breaking behind cars, you start to think about just why none of this is bother you.
It sounds like boasting, but actually I worry a lot about the inability to perceive the dangers in that behavior. Fortunate for me, climbing situations can still generate fear...
Not fearing basically short circuits the risk calculation, and so opens you up to the possibility of "writing a check with your thoughts that your body can't pay."
Toxoplasmosis gondii has actually occupied this niche... getting its host into trouble through risky behavior so that the parasite can thrive, short circuiting a rodent's fear of predators... to be eaten and allowing the parasite to complete its life cycle.
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jstan
climber
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Jul 13, 2012 - 11:39am PT
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I would try to figure out what was wrong with me.
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ImplicitD
Trad climber
Boise
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Jul 13, 2012 - 12:17pm PT
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The best response so far is the last one.
If I had no fear Id try to live without petroleum... Thats right Id live in a cave and grow my own food and climb barefoot.
But Im scared so I pretend all is ok.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Jul 13, 2012 - 12:22pm PT
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If I had no fear Id try to live without petroleum... Thats right Id live in a cave and grow my own food and climb barefoot.
But Im scared so I pretend all is ok.
Fukkin AAAAAA.
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Caveman
climber
Cumberland Plateau
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Jul 13, 2012 - 12:25pm PT
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Stupid stuff, a little bit of fear is a good thing.
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Jul 13, 2012 - 12:35pm PT
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The things I choose not to do I do out of carefully considered common sense.
It's not fear that keeps me from swimming with sharks with chum smeared all over my body, so much as being confident in the knowledge that it's just not a good thing to do.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Jul 13, 2012 - 01:16pm PT
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I would try to figure out what was wrong with me.
Once again, jstan speaks truth.
John
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Jul 13, 2012 - 01:45pm PT
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Fear is one of our most important tools. Since the beginning of time we have adapted and innovated based on our fears. I would not like to lose my fear.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Jul 13, 2012 - 01:49pm PT
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john beck i partially hydrogenately concur,
the mere problem with your proposal
is that fear is not reality authored,
but rather culturally authored.
thus we have to be selectively afraid,
otherwise we all become women.
did i just write that?
im totally not sexist
women are by far, or rather,
BY FAR the bravest chromosome,
i've watched my wife give birth twice and
i cant hold a candle to the sun-star of her resolve.
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TwistedCrank
climber
Dingleberry Gulch, Ideeho
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Jul 13, 2012 - 01:51pm PT
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Nothing.
Fear is a great motivator.
If I didn't have fear, I'd become a marshmallow.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Jul 13, 2012 - 01:54pm PT
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marsh mellows are afraid of the flame.
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MikeL
climber
SANTA CLARA, CA
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Jul 13, 2012 - 01:57pm PT
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Live life fully. Quit death-denial projects.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Jul 13, 2012 - 02:01pm PT
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life itself is a death denial project,
cause death actively seeks us in
the form of seductive whispers,
many of our heroes have been lured upon these.
i agree, though. mike.
quit life, but quit over the course of a lifetime.
surrender takes patience.
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