The secret of adventure, then, is not to carefully seek it out but to travel in such a way that it finds you. To do this, you first need to overcome the protective habits of home and open yourself up to unpredictability. As you begin to practice this openness, you'll quickly discover adventure in the simple reality of a world that defies your expectations. More often than not, you'll discover that โadventureโ is a decision after the fact-a way of deciphering an event or an experience that you can't quite explain.
Rolf Pottsthere is still an overwhelming social compulsion-an insanity of consensus, if you will-to get rich from life rather than live richly, to โdo wellโ in the world instead of living well.
Rolf PottsOf all the adventures and challenges that wait on the vagabonding road, the most difficult can be the act of coming home.
Rolf PottsContrary to popular stereotypes, seeking simplicity doesn't require that you become a monk, a subsistence forager, or a wild-eyed revolutionary. Nor does it mean that you must unconditionally avoid the role of consumer. Rather, simplicity merely requires a bit of personal sacrifice: an adjustment of your habits and routines within consumer society itself.
Rolf PottsIn this way, we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) โthe best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.โ We'd love to drop all and explore the world outside, we tell ourselves, but the time never seems right. Thus, given an unlimited amount of choices, we make none. Settling into our lives, we get so obsessed with holding on to our domestic certainties that we forget why we desired them in the first place.
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