Have Adventure

Firstly, I would like to thank the readers for participating in this latest reader poll. It was a huge success, and I have you to thank. The question asked is, "Who was you're favorite Beatle." The winner of the poll was Sir Paul McCartney, and rightfully so. My personal experiences in listening to the Beatles is that the good songs were written by McCartney. By good, I mean the ones that are the best. Not to say that the other members didn't do amazing things, but I prefer Paul's songs. So yeah, cool. Thanks for that.

What brings me to Blogger today is the Newspaper. I like to regurgitate news stories for you, but I like to put my brain to work here.

There was a story a few days ago...we'll say it was this past Friday or Saturday, where a young 16-year-old girl was attempting to sail around the world solo. She was unsuccessful because her boat got wrecked by a huge wave, and she was stranded in the Indian Ocean for a while there. She came out of it alright, but there were questions leveed against her parents, questioning their decision to let her sail around the world at such a young age. I loved the fathers response to the critics, basically saying that she is as capable of completing this task as any other person. She was trained for most of her life on sailing, and she was well equiped with the knowlage to complete this journey. He went on to say that her sailing around the world was just as dangerous as any 16-year-old behind the wheel of a car on the roads, which is very dangerous indeed. He also said that those that felt she shouldn't be doing this had lost their "zeal for life" and that people that hold that opinion are "living in a cotton-wool tunnel to make everything safe." Let me say that I totally agree. What is this life for anyway? Why not have adventure?

This would have been the end of my thoughts on this, which was this past Saturday morning, but another news story came through yesterday, and continued this morning. It's about that guy from Colorado who had made a journey to Pakistan to find and kill Osama Bin Laden. People said he was a crazy person who was getting in the military's way and had no business going over there and doing something so crazy.

Why would you care? Because we're throwing away so many of our tax dollars on a war in Afganastan that has thus far turned up little results as far as what we originally set out to do, which was capture and/or kill the leader of the group that attacked our country, Osama Bin Laden. Why would you oppose a man from our country from going over there, doing what he can by himself to do what we all feel is the right thing to do. I applaud Gary Brooks Faulkner for trying to take the issue into his own hands.

Though he did say he was told by God in a dream that he had to go do it, so maybe he is bat-shit crazy...

The critics say that no none should do this. Why? Why not live you're life how you want, as long as you're not really breaking any laws or anything like that. Go live life. Don't be afraid to take risks. You don't have to play it safe. The best memories from you're life are not the times you played it safe (unless you decided not to go hiking and everyone else that went without you got eaten by a grizzly bear or something. That could be a good memory.) If you want to self-finance a trip to Pakistan to kill the leader of Al-Qaeda, go for it. I mean, don't live recklessly, as to endanger future adventures by cutting you're life short, but just go have adventure. I promise you're life will be more fulfilling. What are we here for? Why not just go see what you can do, doing whatever you feel like. Sometimes playing it safe is the right thing to do, but not you're entire life. The best stories come from the people that have been places and seen things. The ones with life experiences are the best storytellers, and it's something we should all strive for.