What is Adventure?

Does it have to be through jungles and deserts and arctic tundras, facing danger and nature and an appropriately cliché antagonist?

Is it beat-up satchels and well-worn fedoras?

Is it snarky quips between two best friends as they take down an impossible number of dangerous assassins?

Yes. But also … not exactly.

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Adventure can be driving a different route to or from home.

Adventure can be going somewhere alone that you always go with friends.

Adventure can be trying or learning something new.

Adventure is definitely making yourself do something hard or uncomfortable that you’ve been putting off.

Adventure is the best part of growing up, actually. Adventure is what gives you great stories or even just a better sense of your stronger self.

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Adventure can be very, very small. And those are the best, truly, because every big, great adventure starts with something very, very small.

I love to read and write books about big, daring, dangerous adventures that challenge the characters and make them grow, but I don’t know how many of those I’d actually want to go on. If something like that happened to me today, I don’t think I’d be ready for it. However, I do like the idea of adventure–challenge, change, becoming bigger, better, stronger than before—to learn about the world and yourself.

And of course, facing those small challenges in our everyday life will prepare us when we do finally face those big, life-changing, wild adventures that seem to only happen in books.

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What adventures are you looking forward to today?