{"id":2759,"date":"2025-08-28T14:22:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/?p=2759"},"modified":"2025-08-28T14:22:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:22:21","slug":"why-bother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/28\/why-bother\/","title":{"rendered":"Why bother?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201dYou cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below <a><\/a>does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Ren\u00e9 Daumal<br>Mount Analogue: A Tale of Non-Euclidean and Symbolically Authentic Mountaineering Adventures, 1952.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1328\" src=\"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/dima-junglist-wk_U3lLOe6E-unsplash-2000x1328.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/dima-junglist-wk_U3lLOe6E-unsplash-2000x1328.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/dima-junglist-wk_U3lLOe6E-unsplash-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/dima-junglist-wk_U3lLOe6E-unsplash-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/dima-junglist-wk_U3lLOe6E-unsplash-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/dima-junglist-wk_U3lLOe6E-unsplash-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/dima-junglist-wk_U3lLOe6E-unsplash-2048x1360.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-2759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-mindset"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2761,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions\/2761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}