A Rare Sort
Every adventurer begins as an ordinary person who has had no adventures. Each person must start somewhere. Most people will find that they have had very few adventures in their life. They may have gone camping a few times, or done some hiking, or perhaps spent some money on a guided tour somewhere. But most people will never adventure beyond this, though they deck their cars and water bottles with stickers that say “adventure awaits.” But that’s all adventure does for them. It awaits, and is not pursued. For the precious few in this world though, they will wake up one morning and find that, without quite meaning to, they have become true adventurers. There isn’t much use in comparing oneself too closely with others, for someone else will always have had more adventures than you, and there will always be those who have had less. But there does come a point when a person begins to recall the stories of their life and they realize their adventures have gone far beyond what most ordin...