Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge impact, just like outer space. It's like going to the moon.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think part of the appeal of Antarctica is experiencing some sort of power, the forces of the natural world.
It is a very overpowering realization that the Earth is so small. It affected me.
The thing that is most beautiful about Antarctica for me is the light. It's like no other light on Earth, because the air is so free of impurities. You get drugged by it, like when you listen to one of your favorite songs. The light there is a mood-enhancing substance.
Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.
Antarctica is a very alien environment, and you can't survive here more than minutes if you're not equipped properly and doing the right thing all the time.
If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.
I was always aware that this whole Earth is on overload.
We live on the most incredible planet, and yet we abuse it, and we abuse it mercilessly.
I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of.
Damaged people gravitate towards damaged people.
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