The World’s Longest Waterslide (And Some Thoughts on Zen Videos, Feelings of Melancholy and Modern Technology)

There’s something very zen about watching a video of someone going down the Guinness World Record Holding world’s longest waterslide which snakes through a jungle in Malaysia (some feel that the slowness of the slide is a negative but I disagree.)

At the same time, there’s also something melancholy about thinking about how vast our world is and how many amazing, interesting, unusual things there are to see and do around the entire world but how, even if you were wealthy and single and had unlimited time, you could only touch on a small fraction of those experiences.

I guess the flip side of that is that we’re so fortunate to live in a time where technology allows you to sit in your living room anywhere in the world and enjoy the ride for a few minutes, even if only virtually…

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