Adventuring is important for everyone, not just those with a wandering soul or wanderlust.
Adventuring by definition is “An exciting and remarkable experience” according to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary. My definition of adventure is closer to one of the unknown outcomes and memorable stories. Adventuring with friends is always an excellent decision. Hiking to the top of a mountain becomes infinitely better when you have someone to share in reveling in the beauty of the peak.
The satisfying feeling of accomplishment is achieved only when you did not know how it was going to end. There’s a reason people are adrenaline junkies and nature freaks. There’s a primordial instinct almost to go out and just be in nature. It’s a pull that not everyone feels, but for those who do it’s almost indescribable. The mortality that settles over you when you realize how old and grand the Grand Canyons really are helps with one’s sense of humanity. The rush of exhilaration when going through a rapid is tremendous, intense and extreme. There is a split second where you do not know whether or not you’re going to flip out of the raft but the sense of relief when you don’t is magnified by a thousand times. Scaling cliffs at high tide with the ocean threatening to lap you up in one mouthful is beyond invigorating.
For those who do not share this love of trekking across woods, mountains, and other various landscapes, they can live vicariously through those who have an eye for capturing beauty. The excitement and beauty of nature can be captured in the blink of an eye or the closing of a camera shutter. It is fleeting and a somewhat incomplete experience, but still possible to be shared with others.
Whether you want to get up close and personal with your adventuring, or experience it through a picture, all types of adventuring further the great human experience that we call life.
