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Roman's vision board ;) (4)

06-30-2018 10:49 PM #1 roman binom (Member)
Roman's vision board ;)



Life



Non-commercial



Work




What inspires me?

Music. In the main classic and jazz. I am pianist, haha.


Poesy. Watched the movie 'Dead Poets Society'? About it.

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream -- and not make dreams your master;
If you can think -- and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings -- nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And -- which is more -- you'll be a Man, my son!
R. Kipling

07-01-2018 01:01 PM #2 mihalis09 (Member)

Conquering Mt. Everest is probably the experience of a lifetime. It is way way more difficult than most people realize and has also been depicted in a few movies and a great book "Into Thin Air". The last half a mile up to to the top, they call it the death zone, because your body starts dying and you have to make it up to the top and back before you actually die where every step you take takes from seconds up to maybe a minute. People who have died there, their bodies are left frozen in this altitude as an honor. That in itself is a GREAT ambition and would give you such a fresh and renewed outlook in life upon successful completion much like the astronauts who returned to Earth upon time in space. Probably some of your other goals, esp the materialistic ones, would also fade after such an adventure.

07-01-2018 03:31 PM #3 cmdeal (Veteran Member)

This is a pretty cool list you have. It does seem very ambitious, which is not a bad thing at all. Maybe it would be good to prioritise each of these based on difficulty of implementation for you so that you can start working on the (relatively) easier ones first?

07-08-2018 04:56 AM #4 vortex (Senior Moderator)

Wow - what a list!

Thanks for sharing!


Quote Originally Posted by mihalis09 View Post
Conquering Mt. Everest is probably the experience of a lifetime. It is way way more difficult than most people realize and has also been depicted in a few movies and a great book "Into Thin Air". The last half a mile up to to the top, they call it the death zone, because your body starts dying and you have to make it up to the top and back before you actually die where every step you take takes from seconds up to maybe a minute. People who have died there, their bodies are left frozen in this altitude as an honor. That in itself is a GREAT ambition and would give you such a fresh and renewed outlook in life upon successful completion much like the astronauts who returned to Earth upon time in space. Probably some of your other goals, esp the materialistic ones, would also fade after such an adventure.
Actually - the bodies are left on the mountain because it's simply too big of an undertaking to transport them down.

"When someone dies on Everest, especially in the death zone, it is almost impossible to retrieve the body. The weather conditions, the terrain, and the lack of oxygen makes it difficult to get to the bodies. Even if they can be found, they are usually stuck to the ground, frozen in place.

In fact, two rescuers died while trying to recover Schmatz’s body and countless others have perished while trying to reach the rest."

(Reference: http://allthatsinteresting.com/mount-everest-bodies)

I can understand why people would want to conquer high mountains, but personally I prefer safety over thrill! But I wish you the best of luck Roman with all your endeavors!



Amy

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