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So I admit it. I love adventures. Guilty as charged.
I’m not sure what chemical substances or which exact butterfly wing flaps caused this. It’ was always there, from a kid I guess, a mutation extraordinaire. Things go wrong and I like it. Problems come up and I feel excited. Solution seem obvious but the prove not to be. The 30m-route’s last rock climbing hold looks good but it’s a sloper.
What a rush!
Maybe it’s the need for problem-solving painted with colours of the engineering palette. Maybe it’s the need for reminding myself that life, still, happens and not everything can be predicted. Something like a warning, in case something really bad happens. Heck, maybe I’m just an adrenaline junkie.
Today I travelled to Athens with 1 euro in my pocket. Sure, things might have went bad. The bus might have broken down and leave is in the middle of nowhere. My pickup might not make it and I might have to take a cab. I might have desperately needed more water than what I had.
The thing is, all the above sound really exciting to me. I find adventures being great. They make us think out of the box for solutions in problems we haven’t faced so far. They get our body out of its comfort zone and into the vast unknown, into the void that spreads beyond the circle of the easily predictable.
They also remind us that we’re still, in fact, human.
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midnight, Πέμπτη 14 Μαϊου 2009
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You just remind me when I had only £2.40 in my pocket for taking the bus to my destination and then back. Guess what? The bus broke in the middle of the way… 3 hours walking back was not that bad, especially on a lovely sunny Sunday… But you’re right, the unpredictable and unexpected is what makes something exciting and makes you, depending on the circumstances, creative :)
You said, you traveled to Athens but hey you got 1 euro!
In fact, 1 euro is much better than nothing because it helps you make up stories about the possible ways you could spend it. A lot of stories, which would be completely useless if they weren’t so intriguing.