04/26/06 06:48 - 49ºF - ID#21045
Create Adventure
Two Words, Create Adventure. Once when I was a young teenager I remember having had to take a bus home from a friends house. After waiting for a few minutes with no bus schedule I decided to walk to the next stop and hope there was one posted. One stop became two stops and two stops became five stops and before I knew it I had walked about five miles and I was at least half way home when a bus finally zipped past me. Needless to say I walked another five miles and arrived home with a new appreciation for living life a little more loosely. In that span of a couple of hours and at an age at least half of what I am today I realized the value of letting adventure happen and in the process I learned to appreciate how much more interesting the journey can be when you are not travelling at 55 mph. I have done odd things in my life for the sake of finding wrinkles in my universe. I have often stretched that last ounce of gas in my tank several miles knowing that running out of gas is not a snag in my ordered existence but a chance to explore some place random. I once had a car on which the tank meter would freeze in place randomly so I never knew when I was close to empty, I did a lot of great exploring that year. It is not uncommon to catch me surfing in lake erie right before the lake freezes, Geocaching in January (Google it) or getting in my car on a saturday morning and driving until I have no idea where I am and I have to ask the local amish shoemaker how to get home after buying some pumpkin butter and looking at a quilt. I believe that much of this side of me was formed walking from bus stop to bus stop late on a friday nite. Adventure will always happen if you look for it and you have more time to let it develop on the way if you take your time getting where you are going. Today I had a meeting on the other side of the city and I decided to carpool without any knowledge of whether or not the carpool would be getting me home. The resulting walk through downtown buffalo reminded me that I live in a city, and cities are full of adventure. I definitley need to find some this summer. I suggest you do the same, or join me on mine.
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People who appreciate life, have a sense of humor and are curious-- manage to create adventure (for some, they stumble across it, but thats a passive role. Creating adventure is more personal, internal, jump right in and see what happens, mentality). It doesn't matter where I am at or what I set out to do--adventure is everywhere. Yes, even at the DMV or ALIC in e-wonderland meetings ;) (Those imotalizers are a sassy bunch!). I fully agree..take time on getting where you are going (& be open to anything that develops) is key in adventures/living life/learning. Good topic.. I could keep going! :)
BTW, I dig the geocaching (googled it).. had looked into orienteering, some time back. VERY COOL!! I'm always up for a treature hunt-- never know what you will find. (c'mon, thats worth ateast 1 pun point)