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Adventures
Sep. 16th, 2009 08:01 am“Do you want to go on an adventure?”
That was Paul, my housemate and one of my closest friends. I’m not sure if he did it deliberately, but that sentence is one of the few that is almost guaranteed to galvanize me into action. Yes, I’m up for an adventure, almost always in fact. Sometimes I need to cajole myself and sometimes I need to be coaxed by others, but whenever I see things in those terms I’m in.
This particular adventure was to go sailing on the Charles River. Paul hadn’t been sailing since he was a teenager and I’d never been, hence the adventure. He’d been given a two-month pass to a sailing club in Boston as a perk from having done a pirate-themed promotional event there last year, and was cashing it in before it expired next month.
Unfortunately the rules at the club weren’t as keen on “adventuring” as we were; they wouldn’t let us actually take a sailboat until at least one of us completed several classes. Still, the kayaking we did instead was lovely. It wasn’t the adventure we’d been looking for, but it really wasn’t any less of one in the end.
You know, like life.
That was Paul, my housemate and one of my closest friends. I’m not sure if he did it deliberately, but that sentence is one of the few that is almost guaranteed to galvanize me into action. Yes, I’m up for an adventure, almost always in fact. Sometimes I need to cajole myself and sometimes I need to be coaxed by others, but whenever I see things in those terms I’m in.
This particular adventure was to go sailing on the Charles River. Paul hadn’t been sailing since he was a teenager and I’d never been, hence the adventure. He’d been given a two-month pass to a sailing club in Boston as a perk from having done a pirate-themed promotional event there last year, and was cashing it in before it expired next month.
Unfortunately the rules at the club weren’t as keen on “adventuring” as we were; they wouldn’t let us actually take a sailboat until at least one of us completed several classes. Still, the kayaking we did instead was lovely. It wasn’t the adventure we’d been looking for, but it really wasn’t any less of one in the end.
You know, like life.
