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Living the Adventure of Life
Here's a favorite quote from John Eldredge:

"Life is not a problem to be solved, it is an adventure to live."

This quote brings me back to my screenwriting days, just like last week's did. It reminds me of it from a different angle, though.

The movies are all about adventure. Whether it's an adventure lived out in epic scale or the quiet little adventure of connecting with the love of your life, movies revolve around adventure.

The reason that movies are so popular is because we hunger for adventure. We seek to experience adventure by identifying with the adventures of those people on the screen.

Sadly enough, we often recoil from the adventures that our own lives could be. We shrink back because, with adventure, comes risk.

We want our adventures to excite us without exposing us to risk. We want our adventures to inspire us without them forcing us to face the potential problems they include.

Each of us is capable of living out our own adventure. Each of us is capable of experiencing the excitement of exploring -- and conquering -- new worlds.

When we shrink back from the adventure that lies before us, we only diminish ourselves. Not only that, but we rob the world of what we could have added to it.

Don't satisfy yourself with living out vicariously some fictional character's adventures. Create your own. Yes, you'll face problems. But you'll have the ride of your life.
Jeff

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