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boraababy · 3 months

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sometimes I think of when astronauts come back to earth and because they’re not poets they don’t have the words to describe what they just experienced and to me it’s like when cyclists are asked how their day was and they just say ‘yeah good legs’

#‘you just climbed the col du tourmalet with nothing but the strength of you and your bike and the sheer belief that you could #with the belief that doing this is incredibly significant and life affirming #you devote so much of your life to being able to do this #how was it?’#‘good day yeah great display from everyone’#is the increasingly scientific approach to sport and athletes bodies impeding the sense of wonder at what they do #is it explaining it away?#potentially #i know this also their jobs and they have to be focused #and so awe is really reserved for incredible performances see mathieu cx season #is awe and wonder concurrent with athletic success?#many thoughts

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