posted on Nov. 21, 2007:

… OUT of your comfort zone, and you’ll feel the change#, is what the experts are talking 24/7 while they’re constantly forgetting to add a information about a scale of magnitudes of differences in means. To climb the Chief can demand same amount of effort as to walk all the way around Stanley Park. But, they’re probably trying to say that it is the effort that counts. Speaking about effort, look what we did some days ago at mt. Tszil: 

An old, brave, solitary and wise woman named Mulija told me once a long time ago something like: ‘you know, your choices are all you have’. I found it to be really odd at that time, but really relevant to recent events in my life ’cause it is always your choices that choose your life. The other night we were invited to dinner, and Goran found a book about Tito and WWII. In that book I found this quote:

experts do not usally take
sufficient account of the strength

of the human will.

if human beings

are really determined to do something

they will do it -

even if all calculation shows it impossible.

Tito, April 1943

Jung would probably say: “what a S [ynchronicity]!”

I just finished ‘Into the wild’ by Jon Krakauer, and I am sitting here in Vancouver with the same feeling as at that time in Bergen when I heard ‘To let myself go’ for the first time in my life. Chris wrote a quite few letters to people he met on his ‘alaskan odyssey’. This is an excerpt from an encouraging letter sent to Ron:

… so many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of your life, Ron, you must loose you inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter – skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty …

In my opinion, every great photo consists of three things:

1st: something ordinary
2nd: something extraordinary
3rd: something shocking

Goran took this photo on his trip to Argentina (Aconcagua) in January 2006. This one is a good example of a great photo.