June 19 2020

Live In Cave

In the year of 1996, there was an Italian scientist who volunteered to live in a cave below two hundred feet of ground for one year. He desired to test himself what would be the reflection of his body and his thinking.
In the cave, of course, a big cave, there was living room, sitting room, except guest room, and toilet too, plus kitchen and working room. There was also a small garden, and a bicycle for exercise. For twenty-four hours, he was under a television supervision above ground by the scientists.
In the cave, there was no noise, only dead silence. In the first twenty days, he was scared by the silence, afraid himself whether he could insist for one year. Every day he wrote articles, read and watch movies, smoking cigars and bicycling.
Due to his will power and persistence, he lived up to one full year. When he came out from the cave, his weight was gone for forty-two pounds, with a pale face, and body strengthless, brain confused, emotion depressed, hating to talk with people, losing ability to associate with people.
After few months, his sense came back and he said loneliness was too terrible to bear. It is therefore, a lesson for us that we need to be together with people since we are human.