10 Ways to Seek Adventure

I think that the world is a crazy, scary, fun, adventurous, spontaneous place. That is a lot of adjectives to describe something that everyone views differently. We all have our own take on the world. We all view it as a place that is nothing we have ever encountered before. Therefore, I challenge everyone, including myself, to go out there an live. To go out there and go on an adventure. I think that we can find adventure anywhere we go. Adventure is something we seek, even if we aren't daredevils. We can still find something fun and crazy and totally not ourselves to go do. Adventure doesn't always have to be adrenaline driven either. We can read a book, listen to music, go out to eat. That all qualifies as seeking adventure if it is something we don't always do with our life. Go out there and seek adventure, have fun on your journey of life. 

I challenge every single person reading this, and all of their friends, to use one of these 10 ways to find adventure in this world we live in:

1) Move Across The Country:

I think the easiest way to find adventure is to move. What is more thrilling than picking up your life and moving to another city, state, or country? Nothing. It gives you a sense of adventure. You have to find a new job, meet new people, experience new things. You are forced out of your comfort zone. You are forced to experience life on a whole new level. It is the most obvious way to seek adventure.

2) Conquer a Fear:

Conquering a fear is something that everyone should do at least once in their life. Fears are not something that someone wants to have all of their life. I know I have a fear of heights. I would never been caught dead sky diving or bungee jumping. This is a fear I should and could get over quite easily. It would give me a sense of adventure to be able to overcome it. Go out there and conquer one of your biggest fears, who knows, you may just fall in love with the fear.

3) Go on a spontaneous trip:

Go on a trip. I don't mean a trip that is planned months in advance and you know exactly what you want to do and when you want to do it. I mean, spontaneously plan a trip and go. Pack your bags with no destination in mind. Plan something the day before. Just go out and explore. These usually end up being the best trips as it is anyways. Why not just have some fun and live a little bit. Whats the harm?

4) Make a new friend:

Making a new friend is a way of seeking adventure. You are putting yourself out there to be social. I am probably the quietest person on the planet, I know this. I don't make friends easily because of it. I think it is a way to mask my insecurity. By going out there and making a new friend you are finding someone new to come into your life and do things with. This new person may just be someone that you go on adventures with. You could have the craziest stories with this person.

5) Change Careers:

This one may be a little extreme, but it is adventurous. Most people are stuck in jobs that they truly don't love. They either don't have the passion, they don't like their coworkers, or it just isn't what they want to do with their life. Well if you are one of those people, make a change. Change your line of work to something you are more passionate in. Change your job so that you like the people you work with. Find that passion, that drive again. Make a change in order to truly live your life. It is adventure we are trying to find and you can find that in your daily job.

6) Go for a hike:

Hiking is one way to find adventure. It doesn't have to be a crazy hike that is in some jungle in some foreign country. It can be a hike in your backyard. Just being outdoors is a rush for many. You can experience life outside. It lets you clear your head. You find out what is important in your life and what you are missing in life. Hiking is a great outlet. It is a way to learn about yourself and learn about who you want to be. You get a rush, maybe not an adrenaline rush, but a rush of the outdoors when you are hiking.

7) Go to a sporting event:

A sporting event has a lot of adventure within itself. You have the thrill of your team playing another team. You get to experience it all first hand and in person. Not many people get to do that. Even if it isn't your team, you get to see live action. If you are lucky, you get to see a really memorable game or a rivalry game. These are always the best games. You get the thrill of being there, the atmosphere, the fact you can see other fans. You get to have stories that come out of it. You get the adventure of thinking that maybe one day you will know someone out there playing. It is a thrill I know I get every time I attend a sporting event.

8) Go for a drive:

I think the best part about living in California is being able to drive up the coast. Now, not everyone gets to do that, but everyone can go for a drive. Even if you don't have a car, just pick a spot and call a taxi. Have them drive you there. Or drive yourself if you do own a car. When you go for a drive then you are able to be with yourself. You really do learn a lot about yourself. Roll down the windows, blast the music, and just drive. This is adventure in itself. It is the adventure of learning who you truly are inside. It is something that I would love to do some days. 

9) Treat yourself:

Treat yourself to lunch, to dinner, to a museum, to an amusement park, to anything. Just go out there and treat yourself. Plan what would be the perfect date for a guy or a girl and then go out there and do it. Who cares what it looks like to others, you are spending the most quality time you could ever have with yourself. Who better to plan the perfect date for you than yourself. That way when the next suitor comes along and asks what your perfect date looks like, you can tell them exactly what you want to do. Yes, it is nice for someone else to take you out, but once in a while we all need to treat ourselves and learn about ourselves. We all deserve it. 

10) Live:

I think the best way to experience and seek adventure is to just live. You just have to go through every day with a goal of staying alive. With a goal of doing the best you can do. You may be having the worst day of your life, but you know what, you are living. You are able to walk around. You are able to do anything you want. You could go try out one of the other nine ways I mentioned of seeking adventure. I think that the best quotes I have read was: "To live would be an awfully big adventure". This doesn't mean you go day by day doing the same things in your life. This means that you are living, you are changing up your life. You are looking for something new to do. You are actually living your life like you are supposed to.

I challenge you all to go and live. To go out there and seek adventure. Accomplish something in your life. I know you will feel some sort of relief. You will be able to find something that you learn out of it all.