Goals in Life OTHER THAN Vanity / Being Durianrider
09 April 2016 [link youtube]
There is more to life than just the "permanent vacation" of athleticism, sport, self-indulgence, and vanity. And not everyone dreams of "cashing in" on their physical appearance on the internet. Not everyone. ;-)
BTW, I did make an earlier titled, "Riding a Bicycle is Not the Meaning of Life", although, in fact, it largely consists of anecdotes from my experiences with long-distance cycling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcw2X0EyJlk
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hey you know um I get email from people
who are directly comparing me to durianrider this funny in in many different ways um durianrider and I are about the same age I think he's about a year and a half older than me but I mean he acts like he's still a teenager and I don't flatter myself to say I think I act more like an old man and I'm happy about that I have no inclination to relive my teenage years um I get messages from people I don't know what percentage they are of the the vegan movement I don't I don't think they're moving anywhere I get messages from people who really sincerely see riding a bicycle and fitness and athletics as the only possible meaning in life as the only goals anyone can possibly have in life but yeah you know and these people right and you know insulting me and approaching me because I supposedly am not living up to my potential in life by devoting all of my time to fitness and long-distance cycling I just drove back to a guy oh I think he can do a sneeze on camera here I know it past I would have my first sneeze on camera missed the chance Terrell um I hope acted this guy uh saying look you know I did I did used to do over 100 kilometers a day on a bicycle when i was living in Thailand but that was while teaching myself an ancient language known as pally with no teacher with no help while making my own textbooks for that language textbooks that are still downloaded off the internet used by people this day textbooks that I know for a fact have been downloaded and used by Buddhist monks in Nepal China Myanmar Thailand lake szelezon recognizers excellent became I became with no teacher no help a recognized scholar and that fee old even if an infamous skull infamous for being edgy and political and challenging to to establish assumptions I was invited to give lectures with no PhD I was invited to give lectures at Oxford at so as and at universities in Asia that you've probably never heard of and can't spell I did that stuff and as a minor distraction from that kind of scholarly work yeah I rode my bike over a hundred kilometers a day when I was living a test like and I went to the gym and worked out that was not the meaning of life for me okay I pursued humanitarian work and I actually did humanitarian work you spend a lot more time pursuing it than doing it but I won't get into that in this video but I did do real humanitarian work when I was in Asia that ultimately involves handing sacks of rice to starving people among other things need not say more here and he these people are writing in and telling me that I have wasted my life past tense and I am wasting my life now in the present tense because I am NOT trying to live the life of durianrider or one of his clothes and the assumption is I'd want to I'm 37 years old I don't want to live like a teenager I want to live like a 37 year old I've gone back to university now I already have one University plomin political science getting another university diploma now in Asian Studies I'm learning Chinese mystical months ago was studying Japanese I've studied a long list of languages allow Cambodia and pally as mentioned he can speak Thai with a heavy lotion accent lay I I often say self critically that I feel I've wasted my talents of life like I really do I really do feel the way in many ways the opportunities I had to do something in life have been wasted and I can reflect on that in various ways this assumption that a grown man ought to devote all of his time and energy to sport self-indulgence and vanity like I don't care how I look and let me tell you something like I say biet durianrider the same age if I gained 20 pounds of fat there are still women who are going to be lining up to get with me rather than him because he looks and acts like a jittery ex crack addict which is exactly what he is and believe it or not there are a lot of women on this earth who want a man for the contents of his brain at least partially like if I got hideous I would still have no concerns about my physical appearance and beyond which it's just not my priority in life I'm not trying to be an Olympic athlete I'm not trying to bench press the most i can bench press I'm not trying to set a world record for riding my bicycle up a hill you know I've interests in the study of languages politics history of interested in leading a meaningful life my own terms and above beyond all else I have now a three-year-old daughter living in between Germany and France I have both a moral obligation her and a financial obligation her and an emotional connection to her and in a lot of ways everything I'm doing in my life is shaped and influenced by my relationship to my daughter yes that's what I'm thinking about if I had a choice between taking three months off and and and whipping myself into shape to do you know I don't know 300 kilometres a day on the bike it's boring you could get you over 100k if you don't have a lot to think about during a hundred K ride on a bike man uh anyway look I mean that's that's really the only point of this video um it is implicitly hilarious to me that these people both right into me and make response videos to me saying that my life is meaningless because I'm not relentlessly focused on and obsessed with just my physical appearance that's what it's about that should be 37 that's I think if that's what I was into when I was 19 I would have been a vacuous and shallow 19 year old as not what I was about homeboy it I I was concerned I mean you know today I'm concerned about the Syrian civil war and you know that there's a military dictatorship ruling Thailand I'm concerned about all kinds of things that don't seem to concern my fellow vegans I'm worried about social issues here in Canada I'm worried about first nations and their language is going extinct in their political situation and I'm worried about poverty and political store I have all kinds of interests that animate me in life apart from an addition to the research to do the classroom but I mean when I was 19 I had similarly weighty thoughts on my mind and yeah that's going to continue to be what what motivates me left but with all that aside if I had three months to kill the last thing on my mind would be getting into shape to enter a bike race or trying to bench press as much as I could best breasts and one of the first things on my mind would be how can i spend quality time with my daughter so look bad that these people don't even think that i have my priorities wrong these people are so out to lunch that it is inconceivable to them even after they've watched several hours of my videos it cannot they cannot imagine that I fundamentally have different priorities in my life and it's not that I'm failing to imitate during writers life it's that I actually do not want to live that way given the choice that's not what I want to do with my life whoo
who are directly comparing me to durianrider this funny in in many different ways um durianrider and I are about the same age I think he's about a year and a half older than me but I mean he acts like he's still a teenager and I don't flatter myself to say I think I act more like an old man and I'm happy about that I have no inclination to relive my teenage years um I get messages from people I don't know what percentage they are of the the vegan movement I don't I don't think they're moving anywhere I get messages from people who really sincerely see riding a bicycle and fitness and athletics as the only possible meaning in life as the only goals anyone can possibly have in life but yeah you know and these people right and you know insulting me and approaching me because I supposedly am not living up to my potential in life by devoting all of my time to fitness and long-distance cycling I just drove back to a guy oh I think he can do a sneeze on camera here I know it past I would have my first sneeze on camera missed the chance Terrell um I hope acted this guy uh saying look you know I did I did used to do over 100 kilometers a day on a bicycle when i was living in Thailand but that was while teaching myself an ancient language known as pally with no teacher with no help while making my own textbooks for that language textbooks that are still downloaded off the internet used by people this day textbooks that I know for a fact have been downloaded and used by Buddhist monks in Nepal China Myanmar Thailand lake szelezon recognizers excellent became I became with no teacher no help a recognized scholar and that fee old even if an infamous skull infamous for being edgy and political and challenging to to establish assumptions I was invited to give lectures with no PhD I was invited to give lectures at Oxford at so as and at universities in Asia that you've probably never heard of and can't spell I did that stuff and as a minor distraction from that kind of scholarly work yeah I rode my bike over a hundred kilometers a day when I was living a test like and I went to the gym and worked out that was not the meaning of life for me okay I pursued humanitarian work and I actually did humanitarian work you spend a lot more time pursuing it than doing it but I won't get into that in this video but I did do real humanitarian work when I was in Asia that ultimately involves handing sacks of rice to starving people among other things need not say more here and he these people are writing in and telling me that I have wasted my life past tense and I am wasting my life now in the present tense because I am NOT trying to live the life of durianrider or one of his clothes and the assumption is I'd want to I'm 37 years old I don't want to live like a teenager I want to live like a 37 year old I've gone back to university now I already have one University plomin political science getting another university diploma now in Asian Studies I'm learning Chinese mystical months ago was studying Japanese I've studied a long list of languages allow Cambodia and pally as mentioned he can speak Thai with a heavy lotion accent lay I I often say self critically that I feel I've wasted my talents of life like I really do I really do feel the way in many ways the opportunities I had to do something in life have been wasted and I can reflect on that in various ways this assumption that a grown man ought to devote all of his time and energy to sport self-indulgence and vanity like I don't care how I look and let me tell you something like I say biet durianrider the same age if I gained 20 pounds of fat there are still women who are going to be lining up to get with me rather than him because he looks and acts like a jittery ex crack addict which is exactly what he is and believe it or not there are a lot of women on this earth who want a man for the contents of his brain at least partially like if I got hideous I would still have no concerns about my physical appearance and beyond which it's just not my priority in life I'm not trying to be an Olympic athlete I'm not trying to bench press the most i can bench press I'm not trying to set a world record for riding my bicycle up a hill you know I've interests in the study of languages politics history of interested in leading a meaningful life my own terms and above beyond all else I have now a three-year-old daughter living in between Germany and France I have both a moral obligation her and a financial obligation her and an emotional connection to her and in a lot of ways everything I'm doing in my life is shaped and influenced by my relationship to my daughter yes that's what I'm thinking about if I had a choice between taking three months off and and and whipping myself into shape to do you know I don't know 300 kilometres a day on the bike it's boring you could get you over 100k if you don't have a lot to think about during a hundred K ride on a bike man uh anyway look I mean that's that's really the only point of this video um it is implicitly hilarious to me that these people both right into me and make response videos to me saying that my life is meaningless because I'm not relentlessly focused on and obsessed with just my physical appearance that's what it's about that should be 37 that's I think if that's what I was into when I was 19 I would have been a vacuous and shallow 19 year old as not what I was about homeboy it I I was concerned I mean you know today I'm concerned about the Syrian civil war and you know that there's a military dictatorship ruling Thailand I'm concerned about all kinds of things that don't seem to concern my fellow vegans I'm worried about social issues here in Canada I'm worried about first nations and their language is going extinct in their political situation and I'm worried about poverty and political store I have all kinds of interests that animate me in life apart from an addition to the research to do the classroom but I mean when I was 19 I had similarly weighty thoughts on my mind and yeah that's going to continue to be what what motivates me left but with all that aside if I had three months to kill the last thing on my mind would be getting into shape to enter a bike race or trying to bench press as much as I could best breasts and one of the first things on my mind would be how can i spend quality time with my daughter so look bad that these people don't even think that i have my priorities wrong these people are so out to lunch that it is inconceivable to them even after they've watched several hours of my videos it cannot they cannot imagine that I fundamentally have different priorities in my life and it's not that I'm failing to imitate during writers life it's that I actually do not want to live that way given the choice that's not what I want to do with my life whoo