The 914-meter Emirate Rock, how many people are discouraged in front of it, how many people imagine stepping on it. Even if it is so impressive, there are still countless people who have climbed it, but without protection, the only successful person is Alex Honnold. However, if you don’t consider species, there should be countless ants and lizards who have successfully climbed unprotected rock, but because they don’t have any fear of heights, they won’t have any pleasure after reaching the top, so this kind of climbing It would be pointless to climb on them.
So does this kind of climbing make sense for a human being, especially when all protection is sacrificed and life is at stake?
What I am more certain about than the answer to this question is that in an age more and more enveloped by civilization, human beings have a stronger desire to try to break free from this safe and comfortable bondage. In other words, we have never so desired Reverse evolution into animals, regain and open up the dignity of human beings as the spirit of all things. Honnold didn't want to climb without any protection, because he longed to live like an animal in this vacuum of civilization. He chose to become an animal again, and at the same time when the body was carrying the weight of the soul to the top, he completely surpassed the animal.
Honnold's eyes are clear and bright. The romantic saying is that he has seen countless unimaginable desperation scenery, so his eyes can twinkle with stars; but disenchanted, it may be a kind of pure talent The light, in which he dissolved himself, dispelled tiredness, trembling, loneliness, and made him a brotherhood of fear.
In this war called free climbing, gravity is the first enemy, fear is the second, and death is the last. They represent the confrontation between human and animal, human and divinity respectively. In the end, it is the pure cutting of desire, the transcendence of temptation by concentration, and the transformation of the limit by repetition, which makes him qualified to play against death. And the key to his victory seems to be that when this war of flesh and blood is going on that no one dares to look directly at, only Honnold can't see his opponent, can't see the crown, and can't even see himself. this stone, and the next stone that is about to be caught.
Honnold shows us what a terrifying power a simple man can unleash when he focuses his hammer of life on just one nail of desire. Compared with ordinary people, he is so fortunate and enviable that he seems to have found the nails that he wants to beat all his life from the very beginning, and most of us are unable to find them in our entire lives. What is even more cruel is that in In our lives, that nail may never have been there.
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