>>25214809
Yes and I did. I moved through three different states and took shit jobs to survive. It's cool but mostly miserable. "Adventure" as in being British and wearing a colonial hat while minorities bring you exotic food isn't really a thing anymore. For the rest there is "traveling" for fun or during holidays, which mostly consists in you eating and sleeping in slightly different places from where you live, and queueing to take a picture of cultural "landmarks".
My takeaway is that the modern workplace is hell, and that one has more chance to experience adventures today by walking straight in a single direction for 7+ hours than by taking a plane.

>>25214809
>My takeaway is that the modern workplace is hell, and that one has more chance to experience adventures today by walking straight in a single direction for 7+ hours than by taking a plane.
Your advice reminded me of this passage by Chesterton from his essay “On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family”:
>If we were tomorrow morning snowed up in the street in which we live, we should step suddenly into a much larger and much wilder world than we have ever known. And it is the whole effort of the typically modern person to escape from the street in which he lives. First he invents modern hygiene and goes to Margate. Then he invents modern culture and goest o Florence. Then he invents modern imperialism and goes to Timbuctoo. He goes to the fantastic borders of the earth. he pretends to shoot tigers. he almost rides on a camel. And in all this he is still essentially fleeing from the street in which he was born; and of this flight he is always ready with his own explanation. He says he is fleeing from his street because it is dull; he is lying. He is really fleeing from his street because it is a great deal too exciting. it is exciting because it is exciting; it is exacting because it is alive. he can visit Venice because to him the Venetians are only Venetians; the people in his own street are men. He can stare at the Chinese because for him the Chinese are a passive thing to be stared at; if he stares at the old lady in the next garden, she becomes active. He is forced to flee, in short, form the too stimulating society of his equals — of free men, perverse, personal, deliberately different from himself. The street in Brixton is too glowing and overpowering. He has to soothe and quiet himself among tigers and vultures, camels and crocodiles. These creatures are indeed very different from himself.

>>25214809
Yes, when I was a kid. But now I understand I'm too much of a pussy for adventure. I did go on vacation, but it wasn't for me. I hate making plans and I'm not spontaneous, so I ended up just riding the train, walking around some new town for a few hours, then recording every minor thing that happened and every thought that popped into my head into my travel diary.

In elementary school I remember all sorts of posters in the library saying you can go anywhere and do anything with books (stuff like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xM50OgjRKY). At the time it seemed like cope. But now I really do believe it. I would rather read a good book than travel.

>Whoever has crossed all the seas has crossed only the monotony in himself. I've crossed more seas than anyone. I've seen more mountains than there are on earth. I've passed through more cities than exist, and the great rivers of non-worlds have flown sovereignly under my watching eyes. If I were to travel, I'd find a poor copy of what I've already seen without taking one step.
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

My twenties were wasted in a haze of gaming and gooning. I recently had kids so I stopped doing those things and started reading instead. The brain fog slowly cleared and I realized the path that I want to take and the life I want to lead, but now it's unattainable because of my familial responsibilities.
>What did you expect?

>>25214946
Sorry to hear that, man. But you have a family. That's still an adventure.

If you find yourself on a real adventure, something has gone catastrophically wrong.

I'll stick to curated experiences unless something so spectacular comes along that I have to say yes to, and even then I'll be cursing the whole time in my head, I'm sure.

>>25215068
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. - G. K. Chesterton

>>25215075
An adventure is only an inconvenience (when) rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure (when) wrongly considered. - Me

>>25214809
Colin Firth is so sexy

Yeah, so I joined the peace corps to live in the middle of nowhere in a place that doesn't speak english. After like six months the novelty wore off and it doesn't feel like an adventure anymore

>>25215113
That’s because you are not having an adventure anymore. You are grounded doing nothing.

>>25214809
I sent an expression of interest for a job in Antarctica once while I was drunk. I listed my preferred occupation as "poet". Believe it or not, I never heard back beyond the auto-reply email to say they hadn't received my application...

>>25215133
Huh, strange

>>25214851
>"Adventure" as in being British and wearing a colonial hat while minorities bring you exotic food isn't really a thing anymore
it is if you move to Burundi

>>25214866
>he almost rides on a camel
>"even god be willing, mr. chesterton, i cannot do this, your weight will break the poor beast's back"