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 PottsTravel, I was coming to realize, was a metaphor not only for the countless options life offers but also for the fact that choosing one option reduces you to the parameters of that choice. Thus, in knowing my possibilities, I also knew my limitations.
Rolf PottsIn reality long-term travel has nothing to do with demographics, age, ideology, income, and everything to do with personal outlook.
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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