Here's to Adventure

I am facinated by the way people react to actions out of the ordinary.
There seems to be this lull encompassing the majority of living, breathing persons around me. They are docile, predictible, easily ruffled, uncertain, and naive.
Like ants, we move about in our own little patterns, our own tiny thoughts, and tiny problems, and our own small ideas. I have noticed that we are absolutely caught of guard, when someone, anyone, acts in a way that does not fit the particular "Way" life is supposed to move.
Shock, distrust, curiosness, question... even attempts to ignore the action. We are so used to being ourselves, and knowing what will happen - what should be happening, that we are totally unprepared for the unexpected!

Walking 50 miles in a day. That is an action. That is an action that is met with questions. Why? Why? Why? People look at you like you're from a different planet. Why do something totally out of the ordinary.. when you don't have to? Because that is entirely the point! Sure you don't have to swim to an island, sure you don't have to climb a tree, or hitch-hike, or run, or scream in church, or sleep on the beach, or swim naked in a river, or drive to 1000 miles for a photo, or challenge thought - but, BY GOD, you can!!
We have forgotten that movement is a privilege, that adventure is an honor, that the unteathered human heart cannot be bought, caged or harnessed. We are so shocked by the "unusual only because we are so "Ordinary". Open your mind, open your eyes to see that there is more to existence than the simple trudge, the reactionary stupor that keeps our eyes on ourselves.
I love getting looked at like I'm crazy. I love getting ignored like I'm crazy. I love life, because life is dangerously, compellingly insane.
Here's to adventure.

(Andrew Tipton)