A Taste for Adventure

The human species is fascinating to study! We week to wrap ourselves often in a coat lined with adventure and leap out of our comfort zones into a wild unknown. Just like being born! The atmosphere around us becomes electric with expectation of nothing in particular just obvious impending change. We feel ready to literally jump out of our skin with no structured place to land when our collective feet finally hit the ground.

We say that we can "feel" something moving and shifting. Ooh I can feel it - we say - it's really happening! Nothing feels the same. The spark of the life, family, friends, business, home, projects and opportunities begin to fade while the sound of distant thunder rumbling in the distance inches closer.

So what is this feeling? Is it new? Is it real? Are we avoiding responsibility (say the parents in our heads)? What drives these questions? Are we upgrading our lives, taking control or is this simply another season churning, circling.

We may hear our father’s voice in our heads – disapproving and tut tutting. Parents, siblings, children, partners, staff, clients and friends – all stepping up to the microphone to sing bad karaoke and voice their censure over our lives – with us as their willing audience.

Funny how we humans will listen to our perceptions of external criticism before listening to our own hearts? I’d love to design a system where a red neon light beamed over me at 1000 watts with a booming Monty Python tone “ Crucifixion – yes one cross each.” to remind me to simply speak in my own voice instead of borrowing someone else’s.

So imagine if we already felt like we were wearing that coat?

Imagine if we saw the adventure in our current mundane reality already?

Where do we take ourselves out of our comfort zones into a wild unknown daily?

Where is the atmosphere around us ALREADY charged with electricity in continual transformation?

Where do we already jump without a safety net in place and where do our feet hit the ground without a planned structure?

This life is one big adventure - can you see it now?