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Like many of us, following the disruption of the first pandemic wave, I used the summer of 2020 to reassess the situation and prepare for what was coming. I was ready to put the shock behind me and move on into an adjusted future.

Happiness is a very subjective feeling. It comes from within us, and the environment surrounding us stimulates it in many distinct ways. It is unique for all of us: it affects us in different ways and is induced by different drivers. For instance, some people derive happiness from pain and proactively seek it, while pain is a negative sensation for most others, and they try to avoid it.

People often consider bizarre the fact that I, a risk manager, practice rock climbing, as if the two things could not coexist. In their opinion a rock-climbing-risk-manager is an oxymoron, to some of them probably just a moron. This is why I decided to write this article.

Just as many other kids growing up in the eighties, I too fell in love with the original Star Wars trilogy. A masterpiece, so revolutionary for its time, that it managed to grab hold of entire generations and, today, continues to do so with every new one.

I have been running, slowly, for the past 12 years, and I struggled during these years to balance this passion with the 2 main occupations of modern times: family and work.