Throughout history, humans have gone to great extents to keep breathing. They would push themselves to their limits and overstep boundaries deemed impossible to them. The most astonishing thing about being pushed to the limit is the person’s willpower, their persistent nature, which somehow almost feels primal for us to survive. For instance, try to imagine yourself stranded on an island. Try to think of how far you’d be willing to go to survive in such a hostile environment. Now imagine that but ten times more intense. That’s how far Tom Hanks had to go in the movie Castaway. He was stranded on a remote island for so long that he forgot what people and civilization were. He learned to adapt on the island, but over time he slowly became more
