"I'll take survival questions for 100"… um… 'A question I'd hear just before hearing "It rubs the lotion on its skin or it gets the hose again"?'What is survival to you?
Yes. Disconnect.. Recharge... Escapism... Dislocate... Run away, turn to music.... sex.... etc... Women... sex... a form of pleasure.. but not genuine happiness. The guitar... my salvation... my stairway to heaven. Playing the guitar is like meditation to me... ambient music.. rock in roll.. I communicate with all the legends gone by.... the guitar is spiritual to me... I started when I was 7.... I'll play until I die.... dreams of rock stardom is a form of escapism. The guitar allows me to communicate with the "other side". Jim Morrison -- you were fuc*ed... when I think of escapism I think of you... sex .. yes .. give me more... I need the dopamine high... I don't drink, smoke pot or do drugs.... but I can write like I do. LOL.We do need to get away at times and disconnect in order recharge. If it's simply to relax that's fine, but if it's a way to try to cope with stress and chaos, there is a real need to find the stressors and deal with them in a healthy way. Coping is a defense mechanism that ignores the core issue(s).
This 100%!My small challenges are nothing compared to what many others in the world endure.
Water - food - reproduction?What is survival to you?
Breathing!What is survival to you?
In the martial arts to focus on breath during stress, pain, and fatigue, is to focus on life.Breathing!
After all is said and done, every day above ground is a good day.
Trying to survive John Mayer's fight riff: