Friend: I don’t like living in apartments in cities. I want to live under clear skies, sleep under the stars, live in a place with fresh air.
Me: I don’t think I can sleep on the roof as yet
F: No, there are other ways. We can have a glass roof in our room.
Now, here’s the problem. Sleeping under the stars is an experience, an adventure, and not just a sensory one. Sleeping within a room with just a visual of the stars is like going on an adventure with training wheels.
One, that is ironic because it takes adventure out of the adventure.
Second, this level of fear among human beings have created an entire industry that I would like to call pseudo-adventure. People who think they go on an adventure but never really approach the boundaries of their fears.
Me: I don’t think I want to get a glass roof. I will slowly learn to sleep on the rooftop.
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There are billion-dollar industries selling pseudo adventures to people who do not realize how unhealthy this is for their risk appetite and self-worth.
Every pseudo adventure is like a street handjob. Deep down you know this is the rock bottom. It is the