unobtrusively relentless

[rinue]

Random bit of autobiography that never comes up: I'm naturally an endurance athlete. I was terrible at everything in gym class because I'm not strong or flexible or fast and I don't have much in the way of ball skills. But I would win contests that were about going forever: jogging around the yard, jump rope, sit ups. In martial arts dojos, teachers would use this fact about me to take overly aggressive dudes down a peg - here, let's all do a contest. I can swim forever. I can float forever. I can hike an infinite distance.

Unrelatedly, I was also reasonably good at archery, but not brilliant, and this was almost never relevant.

Anyway, I don't like having to do tedious repetitive tasks (I mean, I do, it depends). But the answer to "are you still hanging in there" is always yes. How is not something I can answer; it's intrinsic. I assume someday age or illness will knock that out, but based on my ancestors I also think maybe not. My whole family of origin is like this. I used to joke that it was the clue I'm secretly a robot, but the thing is, I outlast robots.

If civilization goes down, I can walk to you if you are in the Americas. I can do it. It will probably take me less time than you think.

Comments

[sabotabby]

Yeah, I can do practically unlimited walking, but that's about all I can do.

[valancy_jane]

It has always stuck with me that women are built for survival; something I read a long time ago, in a very mediocre book, was that in every test if you put two reasonably equally fit people together in some kind of a forced march, and if one was male and one was female, the females always lasted longer. Something about fat, and muscle burning, and in the end, grit.