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PROLOGUE
We’ve Been Expecting You
The author, a thirty-year-old surfer, stands on a beach in mid-January, waxing his board and watching heavy January surf pound the outer bar. The sand is hard with ice and scattered with storm wrack, and the temperature is in the twenties. The waves are over head high, and the author was surprised to find that winter swells break differently than summer waves. The author waited for a set to swept over the bar and then pushed out to the horizon, hoping to get outside before more waves came in.
The beach is barren and stripped by winter storms, and the author has been surfing this spot since they were eight. However, a huge wave starts to shoal outside of the bar, darkening as it comes, and the author is unsure whether to paddle or stay put. The wave eventually detonates right in front of the author, and the author is left without help. The wave's hydraulics dissipate in a few seconds, but the author is left to thrash in the darkness until they give up.
The author is amazed by the malevolent nature of the wave, as they were young and had no idea that the world killed people casually. They remember the dirty dishes in their sink, work clothes scattered across the floor, and their parents living a hundred miles away. They lived in quilted canvas work clothes and slept in a wool hat and sweater, and their drinking water froze on very cold nights.
The author recounts their experience as a climber in their late twenties, where they were told that their fate was entirely in their hands. They worked as a climber for tree companies, hanging a line fty feet into a tree or spike the trunk with climbing irons and taking the tree down in sections with a chainsaw. They learned to be more careful with chainsaws and used a braided nylon line tested at 6,000 pounds and a climber's hitch to hold themselves in place.
The existential charm of tree work is that your fate is entirely in your hands, with no random events. All the information you need to survive is right in front of you, and if you don't, it's because you made a mistake. However, when the top comes back on you, it pinches your chainsaw bar, making it unforgivable.
The author shares an example of a tree falling on them, but they managed to climb back up into the crown of the tree and continue working. They also discuss the importance of having a relationship with death, as hearing about another person's death can create a version of their own death. Some people take risks to avoid death, but this is an odd quirk of neurology that makes it difficult to think about death when trying to stay alive.
Dying is the most ordinary and radical transition in life, as it takes us from a living, conscious being to dust. It requires courage and willingness, but both help enormously. Death annihilates us so completely that we might as well have not lived. Survival is the core goal of life, while meaning is the ultimate reality that gives us meaning. In some ways, adrenaline junkies are "meaning junkies," and danger seekers are "consequence seekers."
