In 1988, a cave explorer named Véronique Le Guen volunteered for an extreme experiment: to live alone in an underground cavern in southern France without a clock for one hundred and eleven days, monitored by scientists who wished to study the human body's natural rhythms in the absence of time cues. For a while, she settled into a pattern of thirty hours awake and twenty hours asleep. She described herself as being "psychologically completely out of phase, where I no longer know what my values are or what is my purpose in life." When she returned to society, her husband later noted, she seemed to have an emptiness inside her that she was unable to fully express. "While I was alone in my cave I was my own judge, " she said. "You are your own most severe judge. You must never lie or all is lost. The strongest sentiment I brought out of the cave is that in my life I will never tolerate lying." A little more than a year later, Le Guen swallowed an overdose of barbiturates and lay down in her car in Paris, a suicide at age thirty-three. . Michael Finkel
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. When you are down on your luck, you need to know that no matter how low you feel you will only rise again. You will always be able to get back up and move on. When you are down for the count, you can't just give up and say “I quit” because if you do, then that means that you have accepted defeat and that means that there is no hope for you.

As humans, we need to keep pushing forward and keep our heads held high because if we don't, then it would simply be too hard to get out of the hole that we are in. If you want to be successful, then never give up and never stop trying because one day if your work is done, all will be well.

Source: The Stranger In The Woods: The Extraordinary Story Of The Last True Hermit

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