So, just out of curiosity, what do you guys think about modern day adventures? I guess filling the criteria of something that is dangerous, physically, mentally, or financially. I guess things like military service fit the bill. But to be honest, I am 17, and right now all that I have ever been shown to look forward to is a good college and a job as an aerospace engineer, which is nice and all. But one day when I have children I dont want to have to say "well sonny, four score and shheeeven years ago yo daddy built a plane." Probably without the accent though. But you get the idea, so many people go through life like this. While it is nice, when you look back on it you dont feel like you have done something really special. I would like to have an adventure some day, something cool and something mysterious. Something dangerous and something enlightening. That's my dream, yet it seems more and more unattainable these days. The thing is that if your doing something that has been done a million times over, its not quite so easy to call an adventure. So what do you guys think? I dont want to dedicate my life to one single adventure (although if I could that would be awesome), I want to have a wild and great 3 to 10 years with something I could look back on and say holy f*ck, that was great. Helen Keller once said: "Life is an adventure or it's nothing" So, any ideas?
Learn to play guitar and have a band :/ Advice, military join Navy not Marines or Army Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! And finally get laid often
Choose a place that you want to visit, like Paris, as an example. It has many things to do and see there and you will enjoy whatever you do. Just be certain that its a place where you really would enjoy going for any reason at all. If you don't want to go to a place then just do not go for the time being, perhaps later you will want to go there. Go somewhere that you can afford as well for spending a bunch of money just isn't that much fun if you don't have it to waste. There are places right here in America that you can have a great time at, just look around at parks, beaches and mountain lodges.
Well, fedr808. It seems you and I share some things in common, Im An Aerospace Engineer, (although nearly twice your age) and i Too have been thinking about doing something wild, something that not many people will get to do. Ive been looking at adventure holidays, and for just under £2,000 i can trek up to the Base camp at Everest on a 20 day trip, even go deep in the Tibetan Mountains to visit monasteries. However, im wondering that if these things are advertised on the Internet, just how commercialised are they? What ever you choose to do, i wish you luck.
That is a wicked adventure. It's just that I doubt that they would let a 17 year old like me do it, and I probably couldn't. The way I see it an adventure is not a lifetime experiance if there is no danger. It's like getting a royal flush without betting any money in a fake poker game. Sure you won, but what was the point if no risk is involved? My three dreams have been: 1. Have a once in a lifetime adventure with great friends 2. Fly like a bird (namely through maybe a fighter jet or something) 3. Fly a rocket for NASA. I figure marine air force could get one and two down and pave the way for number three.
You and me buddy. We shall search for: The Fountain of Youth! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Ok, maybe we won't. Anyways, on a serious note: Try joining the Navy. You travel all over the world.
Why? The essence of an adventure is that it changes you. The same activity will change you in a different way from the way it changed the last guy who did it. Two people can do ostensibly the same thing, and have two completely different adventures. Also: You don't have to be young to have an adventure. I rode a motorcycle from Prague to Valencia when I was 30 (there was a little thing in the way called the Iron Curtain then), and I learned to ski when I was 40. My wife and I went to the Reggae Sunsplash when we were 45. Some things you don't realize will become adventures in retrospect. I spent a few days in Sarajevo in 1973, before all those assholes blew it up. It was one of the most gorgeous cities I've ever seen. My wife and I went to Hawaii in 1976, and the Hawaii we saw isn't even there any more. Still, I think the greatest kick in my life has been playing in a rock and roll band. I'm still having that adventure at 66.
I think I was born in the wrong era. I would have loved to have been something like a real-life Indiana Jones. The problem is that the only things left to explore generally require technology we don't yet have.
there is more to do than a lifetime can cover. If nothing makes you uncomfortable anymore I think you are an adventurer.
