1. Bonding Time: Taking your whole family or just the kids on an adventure is a great way to bond on a personal level. It gives you the opportunity to spend real time in each others company without the usual interruptions and duties of every day life.
2. Leave It All Behind: Talking about the daily grind, packing your stuff and taking that trip forces you to leave the worries of every day life behind and focus on the task at hand. Soon your daily salt mine routine will feel light years away.
3. Pride and Esteem: Travelling and taking on difficult challenges and overcoming it and even excelling at it by using skills you have learned over time gives you pride in achieving it. It boosts your self esteem. This is especially helpful you have gone through some tough times in your life.
4. Reliving Childhood: When we were little kiddies there was adventure around every corner, everything was a new discovery for us. Going on adventure connects you to your inner child again where everything is new and exciting. Like going down a sand dune a piece of wood. (Click for video) We get the opportunity to see the world again through the eyes of a child and appreciate all the beautiful wonderful things.
5. It takes you places and opens the world: A short quote from Sir Ernest Shackleton to motivate you to go on that adventure you have been putting off:
“We had pierced the veneer of outside things. We had “suffered, starved and triumphed, grovelled down yet grasped at glory, grown bigger in the bigness of the whole.” We had seen God in His splendours, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.”
Im not the first guy asking why we need to go on adventure. Many has done so before and many will in future. Here is some guys asking the question as well.
Rogue Priest
Adventure Sauce
Alastair Humphreys
Call for comments:
What adventures did you get up to when you were a little kid?
What benefits are you getting from getting out on an adventure?
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