S and purposefulness
Aug. 10th, 2004 12:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ninevirtuesI stayed with S. in Monterey. He's about a decade older than me, has a girlfriend and a successful technical consulting business and a dog.
He does two ironman races a year.
He refs triathlons.
He rents a mobile home that he keeps very neat. It has no television, but does have cable radio.
He eats more or less the same way I do: Boring, reasonably healthy, athlete food. His house is full of clif bars, gatorade, bottled water, canned tuna, protein bars, frozen chicken and vegetables. He doesn't own a lot of extraneous stuff.
I get the sense, staying with him, that he lives a bachelor existence in which the details are well thought out and not influenced by social pressure (to own a house, to keep up with the Joneses, to marry). In short, this is the way I would live if I paid less attention to the social zeitgeist and worried less about what other people thought.
Lesson noted: It's possible to live that way and be happy.
He does two ironman races a year.
He refs triathlons.
He rents a mobile home that he keeps very neat. It has no television, but does have cable radio.
He eats more or less the same way I do: Boring, reasonably healthy, athlete food. His house is full of clif bars, gatorade, bottled water, canned tuna, protein bars, frozen chicken and vegetables. He doesn't own a lot of extraneous stuff.
I get the sense, staying with him, that he lives a bachelor existence in which the details are well thought out and not influenced by social pressure (to own a house, to keep up with the Joneses, to marry). In short, this is the way I would live if I paid less attention to the social zeitgeist and worried less about what other people thought.
Lesson noted: It's possible to live that way and be happy.
