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Help? Kinda just feeling over climbing :/

Colonel Mustard · · Sacramento, CA · Joined Sep 2005 · Points: 1,241

Maybe this is your psyche telling you that you hunger for something more substantial than the relentless Peter Pan narcissism that much of climbing culture indulges.

Suburban Roadside · · Abovetraffic on Hudson · Joined Apr 2014 · Points: 2,419

Like ketchup to mustard, I had posted edited and deleted if you do not Relish climbing ,STOP!

My original post went on to point out options ,risks,and that complacency can and does lead to .......Disaster .....

mustardtiger · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Oct 2011 · Points: 20

I'm sure one of these replies said this already but if your tires if it then stop. This happened to me two years ago. I forced myself to climb for a month hoping it would make me enjoy it. It just made things worse. I stopped for a year and then randomly got the urge to climb a lot again.

Guy Keesee · · Moorpark, CA · Joined Mar 2008 · Points: 349

rgold, says it all.

I took 7 years off.... after being a 300 day/year climber for a decade.

Did not yearn for the high and wild the entire time.

Then one morning I woke up and I wanted to get out.

I don't know exactly why but the old feelings had returned.

Got back out and in a few years, I was better than ever.

Live your life, as you see fit.

You only have a short time.

Josh Allred · · Salt Lake City, UT · Joined Mar 2011 · Points: 161

I think I heard this from Shingo over at IME Utah. It always stuck with me: "There isn't a better feeling than moving fast and efficient through easy terrain." I had been in a slump lately; went back and climbed some things I have done a lot in the past and sure enough I was having fun again. It was easy climbing but it was fun just to focus on the movement.

Scott McMahon · · Boulder, CO · Joined Feb 2006 · Points: 1,425
Tom-onator wrote:ditch the beard
-10.

And this... "No matter what : NEVER SELL YOUR GEAR"! I regret selling any musical instrument I had and have been spending a ton of money buying it all back. Sometimes you just have to let the jones come back. Like it was said above, i stopped really playing music for a long time, just noodling around. Past year I've been a junkie to play. Sometimes..it just takes time.

Beards RULZ
Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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