A Sense of Adventure
Think back to when you were a young boy and everything you did was an adventure. You made exciting happen out of the most mundane tasks. Where does that go as we get older?
I remember being a kid and playing soccer in my backyard after school. I was playing in front of a packed Wembley stadium and amazing as it sounds I always scored the winning goal, by beating all 11 defenders myself, just as the sun was going down and my mother said it was time to come in.
Another memory is getting a skateboard when I was about 10 years old. I then proceeded to create a Formula 1 circuit on the concrete under our house and reaching some ferocious speeds….until the day I hit one of the concrete poles and ended up head first into Mum’s front load washing machine, breaking glass and various other elements. From that point on the Formula 1 track was significantly reduced in size so as to avoid said washing machine in the future.
My point is, think back to when you were young boys and everything you did was an adventure. You made exciting happen out of the most mundane tasks. Where does that go as we get older? We start to get conditioned by society…..what our parents tell us, what society tells us is acceptable, what our boss expects from us. This is not to say that everything society expects of us is wrong, but what is wrong is the way we are conditioned to negativity and we lose the wide eyed adventure of our youth.
As we get older we seek happiness in material things like cars, money, and possessions, but the thing we don’t seem to comprehend is that it is not these material things that bring happiness...it is the feelings and emotions that those things give us that is what we are really seeking, and when you boil it down we don’t need material possessions to get those feelings of our youth back.
Of course it’s nice to have possessions and money, just don’t mistake those things for what you are truly seeking. It’s the intangible feeling of life as an adventure that brings us true happiness and often that only requires a soccer ball or a skate board………..
Try to remember what it was like, listen less to society, and decide to be an ‘Old Boy’…….not an ‘Old Man’