Adventure Is Out There... I Suppose?

Adventure: an unusual and exciting, typically hazardous, experience or activity. To adventure is to do something you normally wouldn’t do. To adventure is to step out of your comfort zone and dream big. Adventuring may not always be a place, but more of a feeling.

Perhaps adventuring is just stepping out of your comfort zone, being bold and brave. This past summer and year, I learned a lot about emotional adventuring. I learned how to be bold with my ideas and to step out instead of hide away. I recently joined a theatre program where the ideas of “digging deep” and “finding balance” were just little phrases my director just shouted at me. Yet, looking back, it is so much more than that. He was pushing me to have that unusual and exciting experience. He was pushing me toward adventure. Adventure is out there. In places, people, and experiences. Or, at least, I suppose it is. I suppose if we truly search for adventure we can find it, but where’s the excitement in searching for it? Does the excitement truly make it the adventure? Perhaps it does, perhaps it doesn’t. I suppose we’ll never know for sure. But that’s a thought for another time, another place. Or maybe, just maybe, that’s the greatest adventure of all time.