The more I do rucking, intermittent fasting, and exposing my body to cold, the more I see that the key to success is to find comfort in discomfort.
I wrote this text on the 10th of March, 2025. It was the day I returned from my office job on foot. Of course, while doing it, I was also rucking. I had a total of 30 kg (66 lbs) of burden on my back and shoulders. While walking with such heavy equipment, I asked myself why I like to feel discomfort from having additional kg in my rucksack or feeling cold (remember, my Dear Friend, I take cold showers and walk wearing summer clothes in frigid temperatures). Undoubtedly, it was because I always find power in pain. But how to overcome pain?
After all, when one carries a weight of 30 kg on one’s back and shoulders, each step is a tremendous effort, and it often hurts.
Also, while walking wearing summer clothes in the freezing cold, pain often appears. Cold hurts, speaking shortly. How to overcome it? Is there an efficient way to overcome pain by rucking and exposing the body to coldness? I believe the only way is to find comfort in discomfort. Do not fight and resist adversities, but let them go through your whole mind, body, and soul. Accept pain and obstacles, and enjoy them. I would compare this feeling to the physical activity of people who are running and swimming.
Those two last activities are not broadly connected with pain.
Still, running and swimming are an efficient way to stress one’s body, mind, and soul. They can also provide pure pain to one’s body. Undoubtedly, people who run or swim also find comfort in discomfort and enjoy the effort. Without the pure joy of feeling cold and feeling a tremendous, heavy burden on my back, I would not have done it.
