Or "What you think you become!"
My parents impressed upon me the truth of this and so I learned to be very careful both what I thought and did during my lifetime.
It wasn't that I wasn't very experimental like most coastal Californians growing up it's that I knew when to be into self preservation and knew exactly how far I could take things always in order to stay alive and then keep my family alive too, especially my children when they started being born in 1974 when I was 26.
And having children kept me alive because I was too Terminal macho to have survived my 20s otherwise if I hadn't been married with children. Several of my friends who were too terminal macho like me died along the way and I had to watch this happen by the way.
But, because I gave up rock climbing with 1000 foot hazards of falling I lived through my 20s to my 30s.
But, I still injured myself rock climbing once at Garapata south of Monterey towards Big Sur when free climbing when I was about 37. I thought I would be safe because if I fell off the cliff I would land in the water. However, what I didn't realize fully was that I was no longer in my 20s with the same muscle resiliency that I once had and so when I did a specific climbing move that i had hundreds of times before I tore most muscles off the back of my right knee and fell 30 feet into the ice cold water of the ocean there. Then I was really in for it because I almost drowned getting to shore in 57 degree water and started to get hypothermia and I couldn't use my right leg to swim only my left so the small 4 foot high waves and rocks almost drowned me too getting to shore.
So, even at 37 I could be terminal macho and almost die without even realizing what I was doing wrong.
Luckily, my wife and kids were there down the beach looking at a big whale shark carcass that had washed ashore there when one of the kids noticed I looked like I was drowning up the beach which I was. So, they came and helped me limp on one leg up the stairs to the car and back home which seemed like forever to get there because I was in incredible pain because I had lost temporarily the use of my right leg completely.
If you go to Garapata California State Park watch out for the ticks this time of year by the way.
I just looked up the meaning of Garapata because I had never done this and it means "TICK" Ha Ha
never knew this before so it is known for it's ticks. once we went there years ago now and we counted 18 ticks we took off ourselves around this time of year with 3 or 4 on each of us at least which is sort of distressing to find something like this out when you aren't expecting it with blood coming off your kids' ears and stuff from tick bites.
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