remember Ralph Nader..??...a 60s eco-warrior whose wiki page confirmed that @ 90, he's still at it...this tickled my fancy : "In 1988, Nader appeared on Sesame Street as "a person in your neighborhood", the episode also featuring Barbara Walters and Martina Navratilova. Nader's appearance on the show was memorable because it was the only time that the grammar of the last line of the song – "a person that you meet each day" – was questioned and changed. Nader refused to sing a line which he deemed grammatically improper, so a compromise was reached by which Nader sang the last line solo, with the modified words: "a person WHOM you meet each day." 😃 and this: "Nader has been described as an "ascetic ... bordering on self-righteous". Despite access to respectable financial assets, he famously lives in a modest apartment and spends $25,000 annually on personal bills, conducting most of his writing on a typewriter. According to popular accounts of his personal life, he does not own a television, relies primarily on public transportation, and over a 25-year period, until 1983, exclusively wore one of a dozen pairs of shoes he had purchased at a clearance sale in 1959." 😃
I am not familiar with this person, however, I love the word "ascetic", and now I think I can understand him according to your description. Someone like "ascetic", they are energetic and vital. They are not just alive to earn money, it is more related to self-actualization. Their values are very unique. They can endure pain and loneliness that ordinary people cannot endure, but they can reach a spiritual level that ordinary people cannot reach. They are very determined and spend their entire lives searching for the meaning of life.
remember Ralph Nader..??...a 60s eco-warrior whose wiki page confirmed that @ 90, he's still at it...this tickled my fancy : "In 1988, Nader appeared on Sesame Street as "a person in your neighborhood", the episode also featuring Barbara Walters and Martina Navratilova. Nader's appearance on the show was memorable because it was the only time that the grammar of the last line of the song – "a person that you meet each day" – was questioned and changed. Nader refused to sing a line which he deemed grammatically improper, so a compromise was reached by which Nader sang the last line solo, with the modified words: "a person WHOM you meet each day." 😃
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I am not familiar with this person, however, I love the word "ascetic", and now I think I can understand him according to your description. Someone like "ascetic", they are energetic and vital. They are not just alive to earn money, it is more related to self-actualization. Their values are very unique. They can endure pain and loneliness that ordinary people cannot endure, but they can reach a spiritual level that ordinary people cannot reach. They are very determined and spend their entire lives searching for the meaning of life.
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