Wednesday, January 27, 2010
lost cause?
I was watching a show on the History Channel today in which an archeologist from Britan by age 26 had dug in almost all of the world's most desirable sites and held not one, but two prestigious positions overseeing escavation in....from what this small town Texas girl deems....the most incredible places on Earth. I'm sitting there in my living room on my couch buried in blankets with my mouth agape at this man's achievements. Afer all, I am 25 and have been dreaming of such a life when he, by the time he was my age, had done it! His time was the first half of the 20th century and travel wasn't even easy or as accessible as it is now. I try to reason with myself why or what is holding me back. Did he have the money or the connections I don't have? Or just that envyable characteristic they call "charisma" that makes people fall at your feet with offerings of information, aid, guidence, sometimes even money and expecting nothing in return. Anthony Bourdain has this quality. He can befriend people who don't even speak his language and he leads such a well traveled, cultured existence with no fear. And there it is, the root of all my reasoning.....fear. I don't know why I am so scared but the wall that's there seems a hundred miles high. I do believe though, that as long as we never give up the want for adventure.....to experience more than what we have now........when the time is right we'll jump. One hundred miles high.
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