Adventures

Life is full of adventures!
It is not so much that our lives are lacking in adventures, but rather whether we are willing to open ourselves to the adventures that are everywhere around us, and are willing to jump in and experience them as they happen.

Now, when I say that life is full of adventures, I don’t necessarily mean the type of adventures like ‘space tourism’, climbing Mount Everest, solo-sailing around the world, etc.
What I do mean is the adventure of finding ourselves with a couple of hours to spare, and using that time to do something we may not have done before. To do something that up to now we felt ‘wasn’t for us’.
It can be visiting a museum we have walked by many times without ever giving it much thought. Or taking a bike ride through this newly created park that is renowned for its bike paths, but slightly out of the way. Or something simple like calling a friend we haven’t spoken for ages ~ just because life got in the way…

No matter what adventure we embark on, chances are we are either going to like it, or discover we don’t like it much at all. However, independent from how much our adventure agrees with us, we will discover new things.
From a physical perspective we are bound to discover new places, perhaps even discover new information, new perspectives, and new aspects of old friendships.
From a personal perspective, by doing things we haven’t done before, we discover things about ourselves. About our likes and dislikes; but also about affinities with things that are unexpected. Perhaps even discover talents we have that we would never have tapped into, had we not embarked on this little adventure to find that it not only gives us a couple of hours of fun, but it also sets us on a path, a direction, we would not otherwise have taken…

From the perspective of discovering things, we all need our adventures in our lives. If only to remind us that there is a whole wide world out there that has things to offer. Whether it is just time to enjoy the smell of roses, or lines of thought we never thought we would be thinking.
Without those little adventures in our lives, we may find our lives become filled with a comfortable sameness that fails to spark our curiosity; almost as if we would be folding in upon ourselves, making our (personal) world ever smaller…

What is your next adventure going to be?
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