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Skador och problem var oundvikliga: det var poängen. Vi var vana vid problem. Det var allt det här var: ett 352-milaproblem som JLu och jag skulle lösa på vårt eget sätt, tillsammans. Gömda i problemen fanns möjligheter att växa, fast vi hoppades att det inte skulle bli alltför många.

Scott Jurek, Norrut

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Natural adult

”We’ve been living in a lethal fantasy, Hébert realized. We’ve lulled ourselves into believing that in an emergency, someone else will always come along to rescue us. We’ve stopped relying on our own wonderfully adaptable bodies; we’ve forgotten that we can think, climb, leap, run, throw, swim and fight with more versatility than any other creature on the planet. [...] He couldn’t remember the last time he saw any grown-up crawl, climb a tree, somersault to cushion a fall or even sprint. Which was strange, because until recently you weren’t an adult until you could rescue someone. Rites of passage for most cultures were based on sheer physical usefulness: you counted as a person only when you showed you could be counted on.”