Life as an adventure

When we’re kids, EVERYTHING is an adventure. From tying our shoe laces to getting the shopping to the walk back from from school with our pals. We look at the world with wide, open eyes, hungry to experience it, to discover it, to make sense of it or make things up about it, there’s danger, intrigue, a weird poetry about it.

As adults, it feels like a bit of that magic fades away. We forget we CAN look at the world like that. We always had. If we choose to be on an adventure instead of drifting, how will that feel?

If you’re a bit of an introvert like me, here’s a tiny exercise to do at the end of the day: tell the story of your day like an adventure, with the ups and downs, the sages and villains you encounter, the obstacles you met in your journey and how it changed you, how it made you think, how it made you feel. Tell it to someone you love. Do this for a week and see what happens. It’s all a game, sure. Could it be a better way to answer how your day went than… “it was ok”?