My last RE from FAT year: Beware

Reflection Essay

June 1, 2007

Word Count: 362

What is Adventure and do we need Adventure in our lives?

Adventure is sought out by many people; some seek it as a necessary aspect of their lives, while others are set in their ways and fear change. It is a sense of expectation as change occurs, as the future unravels before one’s eyes. Huck Finn lives out his own personal adventure: “He moves with the wind, goes where he pleases, and in doing so, has what so many people romanticize about” (Sarah’s Book of Wisdom and Wittitry, 1049). Strangely enough, the common idea of adventure is glossed and shiny. The rough edges have been smoothed, and the onlooker may be safe while experiencing second hand the actions of others. When one is actually immersed in one’s own adventure, the out look is very different. It is not so glamorous. It can be painful. It can cause any manner of negative or positive emotion. In the example of Huck Finn, one may see a boy floating down a river, surrounded by all forms of adventure. He believes that he needs it in his life to keep from being strangled and suffocated by society.

Is adventure truly a necessary component to the lives of citizens and the like? It seems to be an unavoidable occurrence, in the normal lives of normal people, who have normal jobs with normal cats as pets. Even flying monkeys have adventures. Frogs probably do as well. Some people hibernate throughout their entire lives, and thus never have any adventures ever; unless they are in their dreams. They are pathetic. Peter, the boy with the last name Pan, was a great advocate of the adventurous rights movement. One could say that he was a radical: “Especially adventures within which one kills pirates and wild animals” he said to me one summer day on the sweet little province of the land which will never be. To such people, such as the one mentioned before, as in, fore mentioned, adventure is that which cannot be done without, or else death will ensue due to the stagnation of the blood. The blood will become stagnant when inactivity sets in, like a bee trapped in the flower from which it was… eating?