Ken Li’s Reviews > Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival > Status Update

Reflecting on this book: “Do hard sh-it, not because it’s fun. But because the win actually means something. You bled for it, you broke for it, you earned it.

Easy wins are forgettable, hard ones change you.

That’s the point.

Everything is hard, no one cares. “

I guess for someone who’s in this journey - it would feel like a cycle. You achieve a goal, and the you go thru another cycle of wanting something bigger, and the next thing you know - you are aiming more and more. Yet, some thing was really clear - our journeys are not about what the goal was, “but who we become on the process”. Chapter 3 shows that.

The first chapter gives a sense how each of us go thru a challenging cycle of our life. We live in our heads - thinking - this is what it feels like, the freedom, the joy of being alone. Yet, the struggle here is also that a journey alone, is a responsibility to ourself, wether that’s to continue living or to death.