The average of life

From a video on YouTube, the various tests faced by some YouTubers were based on descending to 40 meters in freediving in the open sea as well as climbing to 5000 meters above sea level, not to mention a parachute jump to be able to swoop down.

Aside from these which may seem like evidence we have now seen and reviewed on TV or better yet from our sofa without even having tried one, the thing that intrigued me most was that the three stated the same thing. While freediving at that depth, the sensation was of increasingly colder temperatures, just like those who would have climbed to 5000 meters above sea level or those who would have jumped with a parachute.

In all three tests the awareness was calm, relaxation and a concentration that was such as to push away that constant thought that the mind kept whispering or to forget about it and go back to the surface or to think about immediately getting off that mountain or that plane.

What is all this for?

Of course, when I take a trip I can calculate the speed I had to reach my destination. The result is the average distance traveled or the speed that is at the center of all those times I went fast or slow.

But why take the average?

In realtà facendo una media posso sicuramente ricavarmi tanti valori come il consumo (anche in questo caso medio), il tempo medio di percorrenza ecc.. Una sorta di stima così come si fa con la propria vita quando arrivi ad una certa età.

Se ci pensi, quando siamo giovani trascorriamo il nostro tempo ad oziare e anche se fossimo produttivi comunque non abbiamo quella esperienza nel fare le cose al meglio.

However, when we reach a certain age we reflect a lot on what we are still capable of doing and how much better we could do it even without having the strength we had before. Perhaps someone might even regret having wasted all that time lazing around when they were young and not having understood that so much could have been done before.

Ecco questa è una media. Peccato che la media si può fare solo dopo e non prima appunto perché prima non si possono avere i totali per tracciare tutte le medie.

Climbing too high or diving too deep would still make us cold, that's a certainty. It has certainly emerged that to reach such heights or depths it takes calm and concentration. Someone said: be crazy (Steve Jobs) I say: be prudent.

Ultimately, even these YouTubers have experienced that despite their desire to overcome their limits and their fears, they have come to be prudent because they realized that the life they were given as a gift to live was, in that instant, more important than that limit that they could have reached in another meter of freediving or swooping or climbing to high altitude. All with the same desire to live, having understood that there is no real limit but a challenge which is nevertheless greater than life itself and which simply leads to risk and thus to death.

So what's the point of being crazy? What to push the limits of? Understand? Try? Adrenaline? I know for sure that the average of our journey is on the soil of this earth which places us at the center of two terrestrial/marine atmospheres, with two points of freezing and two points of mental suffering. I say mental suffering because I heard from a scientist that our mind lives mainly by saving energy and consequently reaching certain limits of concentration is an enormous mental and physical effort.

Non so se anche tu ti sei reso conto che tutto quello che noi vogliamo fare di estremo è dato dal fatto che non riusciamo proprio a vivere una serena vita, un cammino medio di sperimentazione globale ma abbiamo bisogno di spingerci e anziché farlo a destra e sinistra lo vogliamo fare verso l'alto e verso il basso. Infatti questi due limiti sono i nostri limiti invalicabili infatti vogliamo essere ricchissimi (volendo pensare ad una posizione altissima) ma non vogliamo essere poveri (una posizione bassissima) mentre potremmo avere una vita mediosa e poter godere di tutto ciò che si trova intorno a noi, alla nostra destra e alla nostra sinistra.

There seems to be nothing biblical in this article but there is more than one reference.

It's up to you to find out to take the average of your days, your limits, your suffering, your results, your goals, your victories, your life.

Una riflessione mia può essere un tuo spunto come quel video mi ha dato spunto per scriverti ciò.