Go Chase Down a Deer With a Spear

People love setting artificial challenges for themselves. I think it is because there is very little real challenge in our present lives. Not to say that people do not struggle, but for most of us, there is no real life endangering struggle in our everyday lives. The fact that we can walk to the refrigerator and we don't have to tie a sharp object onto a stick and go run after a deer so that we can eat to stay alive every day makes life a little more casual.

So we make ourselves live up to our little artificial challenges.

Diets.
Working out.
No Alcohol.
No Drugs.
Abstinence.
No Smoking.
No Spending Money.
No Eating Meat.
Learn a New Skill.
Be More Organized.
Be Less Shy.
Help Others More.
Run an 8 minute mile.

Just a few of the more obvious ones that we use to make it seem like we are living up to a challenge that really isn't biologically present anymore. It isn't good or bad necessarily, just a fact of present life. We have the ability to be bored and, thankfully, most of us strive to be less boring through these kinds of challenges.