The desire to suceed against the odds is a shallow, selfish and, I believe, ultimately destructive force wich most people fail to understand.

We all have strange compulsions and we all choose to proove ourselves in differten ways.

We might live longer and enjoy better health, but perhaps we need to be free of our comfortable lives at times; to push ourselves and see how far we can go.

The real danger is that one can also discover what one is not capable of.