My High School Adventure: Adventure?

So what exactly IS an adventure? This is the question I asked myself as I sat here contemplating my next post. Well I guess we'll start with dictionary, huh?

ad·ven·ture/adˈvenCHər/

Noun:

An unusual and exciting, typically hazardous, experience or activity.

Verb:

Engage in hazardous and exciting activity, esp. the exploration of unknown territory: "they had adventured into the forest".

Synonyms:

noun. venture

verb. risk - venture - hazard - jeopardize - dare - jeopard

For me, I've always used 'adventure' when describing something I would probably never really have the guts to do.

Like something from a storybook.

Climb Mount Everest

Travel down the Amazon

Sail the seven sea's

Go to the North Pole

But if you think about it, adventure can be something much simpler then that. It can be different for everyone. Like the dictionary says, its something that you find exciting, maybe even scary. A new experience. Not neccessarily always pleasant.

In alot of ways, thats what High School is. A huge four year period of self dicovery, new (and sometimes scary) experiences. Some bigger ones can be stuff like;

Trying a new sport

Reaching out to new people

Joining a club

Some 'adventures' are not so pleasant. What does one do, for instance, when a friend just had a major break-up.

What do I say?

How do I help?

I try to be wise, I try to do what I think is best, but I just don't know. I'm a teenager. Fourteen years old if you want to get specific. I'm awkward and sometimes I'm just downright weird. I suck at handling stress. I have a talent for saying all the wrong things at all the wrong times. I don't have an abundance of wisdom like I wish I did.

So I just have to keep trying to feel my way along. After all, if I don't make mistakes, what will there be to learn from?

So my challenge to anyone who bothers to read this blog is this; View everything like an adventure. Take chances. Expect great things from life. Have a positive outlook. Because if you look at things in a positive way, they usually end up being fun.

Anything and Everything.

Here's just a taste of some of my adventures (big and small) from this past year.

2011