That is crazy to me. I don't like death-defying acts to watch or participate. So Nascar, rock-climbing, tightrope walking without a net, and other such pursuits have never appealed to me.
What I dislike the most though is people crying on TV after a fatality has occurred when you made a choice to walk on the side of a cliff. Too much risk, not enough reward for me.
Hola TT, I do think a lot of these people do it out of passion. It's almost like their calling - even the high risks don't get in the way for them. Who knows what the background of our true nature is, really. Not knowing why we come here and do all sorts of things is a difficult position for me to comment on. But it almost feels like as part of the evolution process, the big thing that is in place, that we are going through. As they say, nothing is gained if nothing is ventured. America would have never been discovered and that was a very high risk adventure Columbus set out for himself come to think of it.
That's true, but my tastes are very simple. I am content in every circumstance and see most things as folly. The only thing I am interested in evolving is myself as I try to figure out the complexities I find within myself. Things outside of me don't interest me that much.