Renaissance Man

At the very least (in our modern/post modern society) everyone should spend a year without hot water.

A year without heat or air conditioning.

You should experience this at least once in your life if you haven't already.

A year of cold showers.

A year of squalor
insecurity
doubt.

A year of love
A year of solitude
A year completely devoid of human touch.

Every person should spend a year without friendship of any kind
A year of hostility.

Every person should spend a year in love, if only once.

Every person should spend a year without speaking a word.

Every person should spend a year for sex,
a year celibate
a year for fun
a year in pain.

A year of sobriety
a year of incapacitation
a year of addiction
and a year of recovery.

A year without cooked food
a year without refrigeration
a year doing what you love
a year in a job you hate.

Life is a dichotomy,
and to experience it
really experience it
you need to give yourself over to the bad along with the good.

embrace it,
that's where your strength is hiding.