Costa Rica is no more…
For me, for the time being, of course. I’ll head back sooner rather than later, especially if more restrictions come to Calgary.
I’m leaving Costa Rica energized and motivated.
Think about what puts ‘wind in your sails’…
What energizes you, makes you feel alive or inspires you to do more/become more…
It’s typically not what’s common or what’s routine.
It’s the new, the exciting, the adventurous, and the challenging.
Men, especially, are adventurers and conquerors…
In years past there were explorer clubs, hunting clubs, where men would share stories and plans about discovering the yet to be discovered.
We’ve lost a lot of that today…
The focus has moved from masculine adventure and exploration to visual success.
The former feeds the soul, the second destroys it.
The idea that we’ll feel more alive in the face of danger, amidst adventure, is true.
It’s in adventure that we experience life, a happiness that isn’t a trick of the mind, but a pure state that we only realize existed after it’s gone…
Where the moment is all there is and thus reflection cannot take place.
It’s experience, not opinion of experience.
The idea that we’ll feel more alive and happier if we have a nicer car or home is completely false.
The thing that prevents adventure isn’t a lack of funds, adventure requires little in the way of money…
It’s that it’s difficult.
It requires effort, planning, risk, facing fears, being at peace with uncertainty.
We weigh ‘if it’s worth it’ – the time, energy, and so on – against the feeling we think we may have…
Though we can’t comprehend the impact of adventure, even the feeling of adventure, by trying to remember how it felt and how it impacted us.
It’s the same as pain.
We can’t remember the feeling of pain. Like we can’t remember the feeling of being alive.
That’s because such a feeling is only experienced, it’s not remembered to the same extent.
So we have to trust that, just as it put wind in our sails in the past, it will do so again in the future, and while it takes effort and risk, we must put the effort in and take that risk if we’re to be motivated, inspired, energized, by something as simple as a hike into our back 40 or a trip to an unknown country.
Adventure takes drive, but it also gives you drive.