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When you’re so bored in life you look into extreme sports
When you’re dead inside as I am, you’re constantly on the lookout for things that will make you feel alive. For whatever reason, not many things make me feel alive, so I’ve overcompensated and started to look into extreme sports.
As much as I wouldn’t want to get involved in many of them, I do appreciate them a lot and the people who take part. Some of them I could take part in, but I always think about risking my life or health for ultimately no reason and that puts me off.
So what is the point of extreme sports?
A feeling that you don’t get anywhere else.
Why not regular sports?
I could play regular sports and I do when I have money, but they can be a bit mundane and boring sometimes. Sometimes you want to play a sport that makes you feel alive and that doesn’t happen much in regular sports. Sometimes it feels like you’re just going through the motions.
Also, I just want to do something different and expand into areas that I’d normally not think about. I don’t want to play football anymore. I’m bad at it and I hate the people that you’re forced to play with. People who have to pay to play but act as if they’re getting played tens of thousands a week.