Adventure

Quotes of the Week

1. A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow always hopeful of romance and adventure. ~Charlie Chaplain

2. Adventure is worthwhile in itself. ~Amelia Earhart

3. It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Songs of the Week

1. Every Teardrop is a Waterfall by Coldplay

2. Your Surrender by Neon Trees

3. Crazy Days by Adam Gregory

I'm a very content person. I have wonderful people in my life, I want for almost nothing and the opportunities I have are truly amazing. The majority of the time, if you ask me what's wrong, my answer will be nothing. I lead a life of ease, and I know how thankful I am for that.
That being said, every once in a while, I get an itch. A feeling that I'm not living my life to the fullest extent possible. Something buried deep inside of me that is just yearning for adventure. An honest to God, heart pounding, definitely against the rules, I'm going to get in trouble for this adventure. Something that'll make me smile and feel excited about life and living. Because somewhere between my childhood, which was filled with dreams of princes, dragons, and flying unicorns, and now, I've lost that spark. My joie de vivre. My kefie. My aficion. I don't know where it went or how to get it back, but I just know that an adventure would be the first step to gaining back the passion in life.

Now, I just have to find one. But, then again, I'm only 18. Without overstepping the law or general guidelines of propriety, there's not a whole lot of options. But what defines a true adventure? If we're going by the definition of the great pirate Captain Jack Sparrow, adventure is freedom, not knowing what's going to happen next, being at the mercy of fate. Which makes me want to consider my desire for said adventure, because, frankly, that sounds like the kind of thing that would make me wish I was back in math class, yawning and watching the seconds tick by.

If the essence of true adventure is a situation in which you're not sure what the ending is, that's going to take a huge leap of faith that'll probably be rife with consequences that may or may not ruin other aspects of my less than thrilling life. But what the hell. Bring it on. Because I'd rather spend one day having the time of my life and risking it all than going my whole life without a single memory of adventure.