this is from "research as a leisure activity" by celine nguyen, publs. on stubstack in 2024. it's a very good read

I met someone when I was pretty young who had received a generous inheritance -- not enough to live a life of luxury, but enough to live on comfortably without working. He had chosen to simply keep going to school his whole life. He did get degrees, but he didn't use them for anything other than pleasure -- he had a Ph.D but also two Master's degrees, three BAs, and was currently serving an apprenticeship in blacksmithing while considering trying out some trade schools next. I thought, if I had the money I'd do that too, and then thought about how I still could learn all the time, it would just have to be a hobby instead of the career he'd made of it. It definitely changed the way I saw both education and leisure.

every trail within north cascades national park is called some shit like Mt. Will Kill You Dead and is 35 miles long and an 8,000ft vertical climb

personally i think it was a bitch move for lewis and clark or whoever the fuck to give the mountains such rude names, especially since climbing them is completely optional

u can be boiling alive in your mind for months and then on a random tuesday ur head gets so clear and life is worth living again and you're like damn what was all that about then

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my ultimate fantasy is to have a brain and body that allows me to enjoy being alive

Being an adult will have you unironically craving a vegetable

let's embrace play in the face of finite existence with mama