The Joy of Surfing in Ice-Cold Water | Chris Burkard

ALL OF A SUDDEN in that moment, it was sth I was force to earn. And I realized, all this shivering had actually taught me sth. IN LIFE, THERE ARE NO SHORTCUTS TO JOY. Anything that is worth pursuing is going to require us to suffer just a little bit, and that tiny bit of suffering that I did for my photography, it added a value to my work that was so much more meaningful to me that just trying to fill the page of magazines.

See, I gave a piece of myself in these places, and what I walked away with was a sense of fulfillment. I had always been searching for.

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