Jack London

“The proper function of man is to live, not exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time,” this was Jack London’s mentality on life and I agree that we should all live how he did. Death is inevitable for all of us, we cannot control it, so we should spend all of our time that we have doing things we love and adventuring outside of our comfort zone to live our life to its fullest extent. In extreme sports there are moments when they are risking their life to do something they love, but to them they don’t see it as risking their life, they see it as living their life to find their deeper meaning. Some people even do it because they find that after the rush of adrenaline they are calm and relaxed. Dr. Brymer in

Brymer in the sense that people do it because of the risk. The article reveals the truth about his research when saying, “Dr Brymer said while he was not denying some people in extreme sports may have become involved because they were attracted by the risk-taking aspect, most of the people he had come across did not see that as a positive thing.” In the beginning some of the people he questioned didn’t deny that they were once attracted to these sports because of the risk-taking aspect, but they now are attracted and do these sports because it offers them a place to clear their mind, body, and spirit. People get into a car and drive knowing the risk of a car accident or a drunk driver, but that isn’t what attracts them to get in a car. They get in a car because they have somewhere to go or maybe because they like having all the windows down and cruising by the beach. Every single thing we do has a risk to it, but that isn’t what motivates us to do it. To some people these sports are about a sense of relaxation and focusing on their spirit. Dr. Brymer says, “What I found was that these people have a real love for these activities, and talk about a realisation about the power of nature, a sense of humility, and a real sense of peace. They also said they felt a sense of relaxation and freedom, not in the socio-cultural sense but in the sense that they were so focussed and aware, it was like clearing the mind in meditation.”