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| My son's neighborhood this past year in the mountains and cloud forests of Monteverde, Costa Rica (c) Gabe Korinek, 2011 |
The adventurous life is a life of challenge. It is highly glamorized, but in actuality, an adventurous life is one that requires you cast off all that is comfortable, in search of something beyond what is convenient, stereotyped, or inherited.
Stripped of the culture one was born into, of family obligations and social expectations, one finds a sense of self that is surprisingly original. In addition to that, one finds those aspects of life that are universal: joy, connection, industry, family, success (defined in a full spectrum of ways).
In deliberately setting out for an adventure, and to be good at adventuring, one's whole concept of self and of home and of life work stretches to accommodate the expanding world view. Taking a risk to experience life more fully, you see who you are more clearly. And that is the biggest adventure of all.
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