I’m 42 and I can tell you from experience that unless someone offered to pay your rent while you were gone, calls to adventure ain’t all they’re cracked up to be…
You’re gonna come home to all the other Hobbits auctioning off all your shit
Usually, it takes a special situation and Truck-kun to answer the call. Might not be ideal though. Gotta be careful what you wish for.
If anyone else feels bummed out by this, there are a lot of calls to adventure you can answer at any time. 75% of fire departments in the United States are volunteer. If you’re in half decent physical shape, get out there. Disaster relief organizations like the Red Cross are good too. Lots of jobs to do where you can be sent to disaster zones for 1 and 2 week rotations, but also local disaster response, like showing up to house fires to help families find temporary housing.
Gandalf invited Bilbo Baggins on an “adventure” when he was 50, so not everything is lost yet.
Yes, that’s what I’m planning on. Big adventure at 50, find a magic ring that slows the aging process, hang around home living large on my riches and telling tales of my exploits for another ~60 years, then skip town on my eleventy-first birthday to go chill with some elves until it’s time to sail for Valinor!
Coming to terms with the fact that I’ll never be a Gundam pilot has been a struggle to be honest.
nothing wrong with being an unnamed background character.
The novel Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu is a neat story about a self-described “generic Asian man” who is stuck in the “background Oriental male” role while aspiring to be the “kung fu guy”
Yes. I do have that specific stone tablet you need to continue your journey.
But if you want me to give it to you, you’re going to have to make a whole lot of grilled cheese sandwiches for me.
Fancy ones.
Fanciest grilled cheese I’ve ever had: Cheddar, feta, and a skosh of gruyere with a few fresh basil leaves.
“Everyone is the protagonist of their own life.”
And antagonist unfortunately….
I was once told by a friend to be positive and that I’m the hero of my own adventure (I am not lonely at that time by the way, I was moving out of my hometown, which is funny enough since I realised after that people seem to think it’s weird if you move out of town for any reasons aside from job or college opportunities). Anyway, I was indeed going on adventure by moving out of town but I never thought of myself as hero before or after. I don’t like the expression because it sounds like stoking and inflating the ego. I have a friend who seems to have that mindset when we were younger, but when our 20s came, he fell into depression for not attaining his dreams and desires.
I think a lot of us were raised to hope and to be like a superhero making big changes to the world. Personally, I see myself as more like a traveller or soldier; experiencing and absorbing the world without necessarily trying so hard to shape the world to our own liking, and also facing challenges and adversities gracefully. Live your life to the fullest as you wish, but what I’m trying to say is be humble enough you’re only human–not a god-- and know when to fight battles.
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