This Great Adventure

Learn to love change or learn to hate life.

How boring would it be anyway, never to experience change?

Everything always the same.

Even if life at this moment is so amazing that you wish this day would never end – is it not change that got you here? Is it not change that taught you to appreciate these moments for precisely that reason – because they are fleeting?

Movement is a necessity of life. We need to grow, learn, discover.

He who loves change knows the river glistens with beauty because it flows.

He who loves change stares at the clouds because every minute, a new image is formed.

Now, perhaps we do not despise change because it brings good moments to an end.

Perhaps we despise change for fear of the unknown that lies before us.

If we fear the unknown, we have no choice but to live in the shadow of dark thunderclouds looming ahead. They are always there, yet they never arrive. And so, we fear what never comes.

We must recognize the unknown as an adventure to be discovered or spend our days trying to escape it.

And what is it about the unknown that we so fear?

I think that it is that we hold onto this small lie we make ourselves believe about ‘now’ but cannot apply to the unknown:

‘I’ve got this under control.’

That is the lie.

We tell ourselves we are in command of the output when we are only masters of the input. We tell ourselves we are in control of ‘now’, but even humans cannot believe the lie that we can control that which we do not know.

We can forge a sword, but we cannot ensure how many dragons it will slay.

We can read a book aloud, but we cannot ensure everyone listens.

We can control our actions, but we cannot ensure what they will produce.

So maybe the unknown is scary, but only to those who seek to tame it.

For it is the wildest of dragons, and we can merely forge our mightiest sword.

Only he who tames himself can remain calm when racing toward this great adventure we call the unknown.

'It's not what's under the hood but on the hood' - taken while jeeping in Florida