The Unaffordable US Housing Market

07/31/2022

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." - Helen Keller

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Bold, no BS words from Helen Keller’s 1940 book “Let Us Have Faith”, wherein she called upon the pursuit of adventure as a tool for discovery. Essentially, for finding a life well lived.

Adventure can mean many things. It is relative. It is multi-faceted. It can be planned or spontaneous. It can be mundane or dangerous. It can be tangible or ephemeral. But one thing I’ve learned:

Adventures are both external AND internal.

When you commit to something terrifyingly new, different, risky, unknown…that’s an adventure within. That’s you walking a path inward, even as the expression of that journey may live more obviously outside yourself.

When you decide to extend a current adventure, that may be a test of endurance, patience, a will to see something through to another form. That’s you doing that to yourself, too.

When you choose to get lost intentionally as a way of discovering the outside environment, you challenge the inner you to pursue and persist.

Seek adventure, if only to feel the path before you walk it. Choose adventure, if only to break the known and find the unknown. Chase adventure wherever it may take you, even at the risk of not coming back.

A life well lived is one you dared to believe could be. That’s a worthwhile adventure.