trail wrote:
>Not just do random stuff and then try to justify it.
I don't get your distinction. Triathlon is also just random stuff that we justify by turning into a competition.
Triathlon might be random. (I said "ridiculous" and "arbitrary".)
Triathlon training, however, is a systematic process for achieving this "ridiculous" and "arbitrary" goal.
I have a stupid goal. The best way to achieve this goal is x followed by y, followed by z.
Crossfit does not start out with a goal at all. (Unless looking good to other meatheads counts). It starts out with a bunch of pointless activities. Crossfit games and a bunch of psuedo-psuedo science is then used to justify the activities.
This seems backwards.
If life is a journey, it is not the end destination that counts. Who cares that triathlon is pointless?
But without a destination, one is just wandering around aimlessly. One never gets anywhere at all.
Just lingering around the box!!
Dedication to a recognizably pointless goal is probably a hall mark of a certain kind if person.
We want to do things.
Anything!
The stupider, often the better.
(Like triathlon).
It is not enough to act like we are doing things.
It is not enough to look like we might have done something.
It is not enough to "feel" like we have done something.
Not to be judg