Write about your favorite adventure from your life so far.
I've had this question stuck in the back of my mind for a week now...
To be completely honest, I'm pretty much a homebody.
Don't get me wrong, I love going out and making memories but there is nothing better than coming home at the end of a long day or night and putting on your sweats and just veggin' out with the person you love or your family or dog or whoever is in your life. (I used to go to school during the day and then go to work in the evening. I would come home at like 10:30 and heat my dinner up and then eat it in bed while watching Conan and my dog would come lay on my bed and I just miss that so much.)
If I had to pick something recent though, it'd definitely be our anniversary trip to Baltimore two weeks ago. Sleeping in, cashing in all our change to get Chik-Fil-A, seeing Interstate 70 literally end and turn into a roundabout, the World's Most Incredible Art Museum, the World's Least Incredible Art Museum (if you like free stuff, skip the American Visionary Art Museum and go to the Baltimore Museum of Art instead!), complaining about rush hour traffic and bipolar Maryland weather with my best friend, discovering a new band because they were the opening act, seeing the look on his face seeing his favorite band perform for the first time...
But then I think about my childhood and running through the *tiny* patch of sunflowers in my Papa's garden with my cousin, that day in 1st grade when I wrote a story for the first time and knew my life would never be the same, or the Florida Georgia Line concert last summer, or going to D.C. for Spring Break in the 11th grade and spending the entire trip texting my prom date/best friend (NOT the same best friend I would end up falling in love with just a month later)...
Maybe this is why I found it so hard to answer the question of my "favorite" adventure.
Because I find life itself to be an adventure.
I think everyone can find something in each day that they'll remember and could tell the story of over and over and it's not always something remarkable; sometimes it's as simple as giving yourself a break for a day or getting through your writer's block or making the world's greatest sandwich.
The remarkable stuff is awesome but it doesn't happen all the time, so learn to appreciate all the stuff in between because every day of this life is an adventure and if you spend time trying to fill it with remarkable stuff you're going to miss out on a lot.
"A thousand moments that I had just taken for granted- mostly because I had assumed that there would be a thousand more"
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