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Well...OK...We each need to do what we need to do, and so I offer my best personal wishes and best of luck to you. Your intentionally quitting this challenge >2 weeks short of a full year speaks volumes about your ability to stick with your chosen path for as long as you choose. You could have just as easily stuck with it for 52, 62, 72 or however many weeks, or even (“X number of") months or years if you chose to--with NO evidence of being “prideful". Just be sure to remember that you don’t have to be self-destructive or condemn yourself to failures in order to avoid being what you call “prideful” (said the guy who’s been down that path...).It wasn’t any knife that kicked it out of my pocket. I purposefully chose to stop the challenge. Been working on myself a lot lately and pride is a major struggle for me. I was only doing the challenge for prideful reasons so I decided to stop doing it to humble myself......
Just a personal feeling, but carrying one CRK for a year isn't prideful for me. If anything, it’s been the exact opposite of that. Leaving other knives that cost >2X as much as my CRK (Shiro 95T, CF/M390 111, etc) in a drawer while EDCing my chosen CRK for ~11 months was difficult for a while, but I’ve gotten used to it. Again just personally--I’ve been trying to envision (starting next year) picking what to carry every day for that day out of my knife collection. I’m having a lot of trouble picturing that kind of silly, self-indulgent and frivolous level of freedom. If anything, I’m also getting closer to the idea of selling off most of my knives and keeping just a small core group of the ones I know I’ll carry and use all the time. I guess now we’ll see if I can successfully finish the year I’ve been shooting for.
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