Seven Thousand Miles Of Wisdom

I watched a video today about a man whose adventure started in California and took him all the way to South America on his bicycle. He said as kids we are astonished by everything, but as we grow older, after we take our first steps into adulthood , we tend to stick to routines, i.e., taking the same road to work, picking up a coffee on the way, going to the same bar with the same people after work; so after a point when we more or less know everything that is going to happen, our brains shut off. He said as adults we have to make a conscious choice of doing things that scare or surprise us, something that would have occured naturally in our childhoods.

The man biked seven thousand miles! That means he lived on his bicycle for eleven thousand two hundred and sixty-five kilometres. Sue me for thinking that he might know what he is talking about. 

The adventure doesn't have to be a bike or a huge trip through Chile and Colombia. It could be anything that excites and scares you at the same time. Something that pushes you to live rather than just exist. I know not every day can be lived like that but I hope that we strive to live every day like this because when we are eighty, feeling like one day we were twenty with our entire lives in front of us and the next thing we knew, we were eighty with aching joints and an acute sense of time lost existing rather than really living.