I remember when I was younger, my mom would be in the living room with her cup of tea in the morning and she would be watching travel shows, and I would be making mental lists of where I wanted to go.
I would watch the show with her, but I was never mentally there because I dreamt about being in the location of the travel episode we were watching.
Growing up. I still am filled with wanderlust, but I can't exactly do anything about it yet.
I can picture these grand and amazing adventures when I can't even afford two packs of gum.
As I grew older, the desire to travel and to have an adventure was put on the backburner while I started to focus more on school and my jobs.
When things in my life started to get too chaotic, I saw adventures as a way to leave everything behind. It's like as soon as I have the greatest adventure of my life, I'll be okay.
I'd be leaving the stress of work, of school and of home life behind me.
It would only be me and an unexplored part of the world to me that was just waiting to be explored.
I've heard travel stories from dozens of people, and every time I hear a story, I feel as though something is missing in my life and and I won't feel while until I have this grand adventure.
I spent the day with my friends today and one that I'm particularly close to kept saying that we were going on an adventure whenever we started to walk to a new destination.
I never realized how right he was until today.
According to Google, the definition of an adventure is "An unusual and exciting, typically hazardous, experience or activity."
Although it's not always hazardous, spending time with my friends, there's always something unusual and exciting. There's always something to laugh at, you never know what topics are going to come up in conversation; it's always an adventure.
Something else that's unusual and exciting is that from where I live, there's a lunar eclipse tonight.
I've been photographing it and watching in amazement as the moon is slowly becoming dark and then red.
I don't think I've ever watched a lunar eclipse before, so this is something completely new and interesting and amazing to me.
With all of these events going on, I realized that adventures don't have to be as big and as extraordinary as I pictured them when I was younger, they just have to be something new to me.
I am not in the part of my life where I can control anything whenever and however I want to and I know that, but I'm not going to let that stop me from trying to fill that emptiness I have from not being able to have a great adventure right now, but I don't have to go far to have an amazing adventure.
Sometimes the greatest adventures of them all happen where you least expect them to.
Until next time!
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