In most circumstances, I guess you wouldn’t.
Why learn to cook? Unless you want to understand the joy of creating dishes that please the senses, share that joy with others, and observe how life is richer.
It’s dumb to form a lasting relationship with another person, unless you want to find a full sense of being through connection to another. And through that connection observe how life is better when the love that you give is returned.
It’s silly to have children. That is unless a person wants to see the products of their unconditional love flourish in the life of another as that human being grows to experience the world in their own way—and make the world better for it.
You’d be foolish to have a conversation with a person that thinks and believes differently than you do. Especially if you’re happy living a small, entitled life so sure of what’s true that you never challenge your own mind.
Life is so much easier without all of these things that put our existence on trial.
Gray is a lovely shade when the addition of color requires the danger of changing who we are.
Who would want to know who they really are?
Who would want to know what they’re truly capable of?
It’s so much safer to accept everyone else’s perceptions and their belief in our abilities.
So, I guess you wouldn’t test yourself unless you want the tension of muscle and bone to open a direct portal to your heart and mind.
To show yourself what happens when your bone, muscle, heart, and mind are all aligned.
To damn others’ perceptions and define, brawn and brain, who you really are.