Life is an adventure

I don’t know how it didn’t cross my mind to be terrified.

Me and a friend were baby sitting his little sister, we must have been 11

She must have been 6 or 7.

It was November 30th

I remember it because we were about to go out carol singing and I remember thinking that we were jumping the gun.

But as I saw it it was a perfect opportunity to capitalise on the cuteness factor of having a little girl carrying a tape recorder as we sang 3 loops of Jiggling bells.

We dressed up in wintery clothes despite it not being very cold.

We knocked on doors where people already had their Christmas trees up.

We’d ring the bells and just start singing.

I can sing a bit which I guess helped.

We did it at just the right time to catch kids in their pyjamas just before going to bed.

Thinking back on it they really loved it.

It’s one of those things that if someone dared you to do it and you really thought it through you might never find the courage.

We just didn’t think about it much.

We were nervous for sure but we were also excited.

It felt like an adventure.

We were probably breaking some unwritten babysitter rules.

We were doing something new.

We were going to make some money.

£84.00 in and hour and a half as you asked which is the equivalent to £4.6 million in todays money.

You could get a house for that back then.

We just cared more about the adventure than what people thought.

I’ve learned over the years that adventure is important to me although I have my own definition.

Moving to Denmark was and is an adventure and I can see when lose track of that and what I need to do to get it back.

But also meeting someone new (or old) and hearing their story is an adventure to me.

It’s amazing when you think about it how we ever lose sight of this insane adventure we’re all on.

We’re attached to a spinning rock in the middle of who knows where. None of us has any clue what we’re doing, we’re all making it up as we go along.

We’re like, oh it’s grey outside, that means bad.

Oh it’s just raining,

Oh that’s just a forest, the ocean, a dog, a flower, a person.

How each of these things don’t blow our minds every day is mind blogging isn’t it?

When they don’t it’s a good indicator that we’ve lost a bit of perspective, perhaps taking life a bit too seriously.

That’s not to say life is cup cakes and rainbows it’s to say adventure and awe are the only way to balance this stuff out.

This has been a note to self, that last paragraph in particular. If you made it this far I hope you took something from it too.