Now, I have no idea if this is type-related, but, strangely enough, it resonates. When living somewhere up north in Europe I missed the bus back to school and didn't want to wait half an hour for the next one, so I thought I'd walk the distance, why not. I'd have to walk between this thin stretch of road between this awe-inspiring mountain that drops almost perpendicular to the edge of the fjord (frozen, incidentally). I believe it took me about 3-4 hours and it was pitch dark the whole time. I stopped at some point cuz I felt the ground shaking, don't know if it was a reindeer or what and couldn't tell how far or close it was, but i freaked out, lol. The "thing" let me be though
. Was kinda terrified in a way the whole time, nature kinda scares me, it's too big or sth, lol. I told my friend when i got back to school and he politely suggested i might be crazy
I have no idea what i'm thinking at the time of doing these kinda activities though, but i wonder if it's some kind of inner pilgrimage of sorts, maybe to know yourself better (heh, myself scares me sometimes
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To end it on a slightly more positive note though, i'm 8 and my brother is 10 and we're somewhere south vacating with the fam. Parents go out and my gamma brother dares me to this crazy game. We (well, my parents really, lol) have a bottle of grappa and he says whoever is able to chug from the bottle w/o stopping for the longest time wins the game. He goes first and I thought "wow, that was long, can't let him win". He only chugged for a couple seconds, if that. So now i'm chugging and my eyes are bulging. I won, i think, but can't really remember lol. I think i was barfing til my parents came back. The next day was still drunk, went to look at my dad clean his motorcycle and fell from the veranda onto the garden. I remember giggling at my dad "dad, haha, i'm drunk and i didn't get hurt at all", lol.
So, yeah, not sure these things make you stronger, lol