The Look in Our Eyes

We crave adventure. Every last one of us. We want to taste it, want to be apart of it, we want to experience danger and live to smile about it another day.

I have a confession.. I have been watching people. I have been watching their eyes; people have hunrgy eyes. There is a desire inside, I can see it - a flame deep down thats causing our very hearts to ache.
Most people can't pin the feeling down, they think its a need that will be filled by aquiring more "stuff" more luxury, more money, more whatever - it is not. As you sit at your comfortable desk, being cooled by your convenient air conditioner, fretting about your imaginary problems.. you start to feel it. Maybe you break out in a sweat, maybe you drink some water, have a smoke, or maybe you eat one of those convenient 100 calorie cookie packs to get your mind of your restlessness - but it is still there. That urge to claw your way out of this glass cage, let your hair down, take your shirt off, and scream out of pure excitment - I AM ALIVE!!!

We want to live free. We need to. We were designed with motion in mind. We were made amazing - created to climb, run, swim, jump, dash, kick, fall, twist, push, spin, and use energy. FOR A VERY SHORT TIME ONLY.

People have tried to stop being a part of motion. We think that being comfortable = happiness; it does not. Adventure is the enemy of comfortable, they cannot co-exist. And yet, we try to make them fit, make it work. We're willing to try to be adventurous, but only as long as we can have the necessary qualities, which we deserve and require. HOW MUCH FREEDOM, HOW MUCH EXCITMENT IS LOST FOR THE SAKE OF COMFORTABLE?? Too much!
Can you imagine giving up comfortable for a moment.. say goodbye to predictible, well-organized, rules, and enter a world that is absolutely, stunningly exciting.
I was in an argument the other day about living a radical life. There is this idea that radical living is capable in ordinary senerios - it is not. Radical, is not subjective to you or me! A person doesn't become radical just because they THINK that they are that way. It is REAL, TRUE, DEFINED - it is an adventurous, dangerous lifestyle that can only be experienced though living out what is NOT comfortable - a life that is torn from subtle tranquility, and thrown into the mystery, the revelation, the depth and the substance of adventure.
WE ARE MADE FOR THE ADVENTURE OF LIFE It is etched in every last one of us. Let go of comfort, get up from your desk, get off of your sofa, and do something incredible! Adventure is right here in front of us all.. waiting, waiting, waiting. take it by the hand.. and LIVE FREE!!

(Andrew Tipton)