In Praise of Pointless Goals
These achievements aren’t about productive self-improvement. They’re designed to make the pursuit of joy a deliberate practice.
In July of last year, a grown man pulled on a giant bear costume and set out to walk across the country. Under the alias , Jessy Larios, then 33, ambled from Los Angeles to New York, sweating and chafing and viewing the world through a mesh peephole. Larios told me that it was “kind of like carrying around your own prison,” and that despite the costume’s whimsical exterior, the interior experience was akin to “getting tortured.” But Bearsun prevailed, inspiring Instagram followers and news reporters alike as he walked in
