A PERSON AND THE ADVENTURE OF EVERY DAY

A Person and the Adventure of every day

Well, the person could be Meeney Beanbag. Could that person have been named Mel Gibson, Emma Watson, Kenneth Branagh or even Grace Kelly at birth. Yes, it could but that just did not happen. Maybe it was not necessary at all for the purposes of a regular life.

So Meeney Beanbag lived a normal life, not without some emotions but with no major upheavals. Til today. On the way to the office, while reading some irrelevant news about local politics, was when the link was found, a link where you could read «how to find adventure in everyday life». It was not the text itself but the image that illustrated it, a kind of hand-drawn diagram on a kind of urban map, which presented some attractive that leaded to click on it.

Is someone a sucker for reading blog posts like this? Well, who knows, it depends on what consequences will follow. Rowing oceans «offshore mode» had never been a choice, too many perfect storms, too many white sharks. Neither crossing deserts, too dry, too many UV for the skin. Cycling across Siberia in middle winter, not even considered it. But the post said it was not needed. Only an attitude of curiosity, excitement, purpose and adventure. That’s was fair, that was the reason of clicking the link, in fact.

The doorstep mile. That was the first advice or clue for the start. It should be something easy to do, something so small to be safe from excuses to avoid doing it. As Siberian cycling, stepping away from the office path was something to not consider so the doorstep mile should be found inside the same boring building of everyday. Already in the desk. Still thinking of it. Heat a coffee. Don’t start reports,… if writing then write about adventure. That was the doorstep.

Conquer fears and barriers. Once the doorstep mile is crossed you are supossed to be able to eliminate all the “but…” or “I can’t” excuses. Trying to replace them with “I choose not to” Meeney Beanbag came to the conclusion that there were much more of “I choose not to” in everyday routine that in the pack of things wanted but still undone. Writing a list of them could be a start, writing them in an interesting way, not a simple list but some kind of story about them.

Thus the idea appeared of a person who did many unwanted things every day and suddenly one day chose not to do them. And then a mental list of them was made to try to erase them in a creative way. And after all of it there must be included in the process everything that until now was, perhaps without realizing it, chosen not to be done, this in order to find whether or not the reason was a real obstacle or a mere excuse. In this last case the fictitious barrier should be jumped and start moving ahead.

Find out what you love then shrink it, that was the next step.Writing successful books were something that Meeney had in mind for years, one of the things, if not the main one, largely avoided and deferred. But why should the books be successful. Thats was unnecessary then shrinkable. Just books one enjoys writing. And days, months, years later, one, maybe someone else, feel also, again, also again, enjoyable reading them. Enough.

Shrink it even more! That’s easy, Meeny thought then, they might not even be books. Some night, somehow, some reminded dream, somewhere between six and again, told something like: “my complete works would be scattered sentences”.

Think laterally… and then there was a sudden hiatus that left the rest of us without knowing what to think.

Remember the feeling.

Deathclock.

Tick Tock…

[Soundtrack: God is an Astronaut – All Is Violent, All Is Bright (full album)]

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