What happens when you test your own limits, when you test your endurance levels, when you test your capacity to tolerate? The mind is a wonderful device. It's sturdy, it's got high resistance to pressure. But the body is a different thing. It can bear pain, it can handle stress, but only to a certain limit. Beyond that it gives up. It just refuses to function when subjected to pressures beyond what it can handle. I have just experienced this and realized how important it is- to take care of your self, for no one else will. I thought I could abuse, misuse, ill treat my mind, my body- because they belong to me and I own them. I didn't realise it was the other way round. I live because they function well. When it got to a point beyond what I could bear, my body gave in, my mind tired out. What I experienced was a state of sheer exhaustion, like being drugged and incapacitated. I could literally feel my mind in pain, my body in agony. It made me think if it was worth it. Subjec
