Natasha Tori Maru

It might do to investigate why you are so offended/appalled/disturbed/emotional regarding this topic. I think there is a good inquiry opportunity. And growth opportunity. Maybe issues with control. Or inner ideals not matching to reality. I am not remarking on this comment in particular - but the pattern of responses in this thread.

The roasting is real. I call the tradies 'bunch of cu***' all the time. Very loose with swearing, C-bomb. General ribbing. I don't know where it came from - maybe because we are a bunch of colonizing ex-crims from England If you call someone something benign, like donkey, peckerhead, clown - you'll cop a punch. Call someone 'Oy, cu**' and it will be received... a lot better !

You want to know something about me that makes me very un-worldy? I have never been outside of Australia. I have a serious lack of experience in this arena. I don't even have a fucking passport! WHAT! I was never in a stable enough place to be able to travel. If I had reason to travel, an aim or task - you better bet suddenly I would be getting a passport Life was sorta bad for me until 30. I was very insular from this. I want to see Italy for the art - the Sistene chapel. Germany's architecture. Japan for my family. USA for the turbo-extreme EVERYTHING. Crete for the other side of my family. I also want to travel around Australia. It just so happens my career exploded in the last 6 years, and it is only now I have enough to purchase an apartment and travel with the rest. I say Australia is good for balance, chill. Retirement. Pros. But it is NOT like the USA. You can make it big in the US. The opportunity there is huge. Obviously, the difficulty is massive also, many people in the US struggle. But you can't be so entrepreneurial and fucken make BANK in Australia like there. I don't know what sort of blender that animal went through in its creation. I sort of dislike it, what the fuck kind of leftovers were used for it?! It's like the reheated leftover scrap pizza of animals.

I really appreciate that I had a hard start to life. Not everyone makes it. I am still trying to figure out how/why I did. I can tell you one thing though, I am more resilient than most. I bounce back from failure and wipe past thoughts about it clean. I just take what I need to learn from how I failed, and try again. And I never stop. I don't let things deter me. This one was element about myself that grew in strength through the years, as I begun to apply it to more and more domains of life. I take ruthless action. Mind rewiring followed dramatic action. Not the other way around.

I like it here. Melbourne has wild weather. Amazing architecture & culture. Hodge podge of all different kinds. The sun is not to be fucked with. It will fuck you. It is cloudy out - you will be mercilessly incinerated. Regardless. The bush is not to be fucked with. It will fuck you. I came across a woman on the weekend who had been bitten by a tiger snake, not 3 minutes from my apartment (inner city, 6km from CBD). She got help. Is ok There are some shit aspects. But overall I think Australia is balanced, which is what it has going for it.

@UnbornTao It is hard to tell between the frenzied replies and sarcasm.

@UnbornTao I recommend the book.

https://www.amazon.com.au/Book-Not-Knowing-Peter-Ralston/dp/1556438575

I read it when I was 14. I LOVED it. The chapter where they were slowly suffocating put the fear in me. I recall that fear when I read Red Dragon by Thomas Harris / Bram Stoker's Dracula (not on par as literary classics, like Moby Dick, mind you). Red Dragon in particular messed me up. I do alright with really dense material ie Bronte Sisters, Tolkien etc. This is a big claim - you must have taken some big meanings/lessons/truth from the book.

Disappointed. You can never know someone else's experience.

Oh to be clear - I do not eat late at night I stop all food 3/4 hours prior to sleep. I just have my largest, most dense and training fuelled meal in the evening.

Not to mention - society operates on a give/take principal. You cannot expect to benefit from from all of the support of society and not provide any value back. If you take and avoid contributing, your not opting out of society, or 'NT world'. You're being somewhat carried by it. You necessarily need to be carried by it in times of hardship (illness, injury, childhood, crisis), that is what compassion is for. But I am against it as a STANCE. Power, medical, water, gas, buildings, infrastructure. Support workers, teaching, skilled labour, care. So much work people put in to keep these networks & systems running for all of our mutual benefit. This is no moralising either - it is just reality. I do not wish to appear to be judging someone's worth only by what they can bring/be useful as. But if we benefit from the collective, I might consider I owe something back.

@Terell Kirby Yeah, it is really, really shocking. The branding man, FUCK

I have adhered to a similar method years, it hasn't failed me yet. Sometimes, prior to a 20k + run, or 50/60km ride, I will eat a huge pile of potatoes the evening before, with my meal. If I eat that same volume of carbohydrates the morning of, I am sluggish and there is much less power available to me. I experience this as the oft spoken of 'bonk', where you just run out of steam. The overnight digestion saturates my muscle glycogen stores (my theory) better than morning fuelling. I used to take meticulous notes on a little pad regarding meal times, types, feeling during training, times etc and work out from scratch best practice. Now its all stored on the Garmin and phone. Technology is great, when used properly

Just talking about the human condition in circles now.