 Action/Adventure: May 23, 2012 Issue [#5057] |
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This week: Make Personal Adventures Exciting Edited by: NaNoNette  
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Hello seekers of heart-pounding action and breathtaking adventures. I am NaNoNette and I will be your guest editor for this issue. |
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Make Personal Adventures Exciting
Fictional action/adventures are usually over the top and amazing. Sometimes, people have near-death adventures but survive to tell the tale. We get to read those stories or watch them as a movie with a rousing soundtrack. In reality, life doesn't have a soundtrack. During a lunar eclipse, the sky doesn't play hymns. It's a very quiet process. There are so many events that are jazzed up by artists to appear to be 'more' that it makes it hard to recognize the action adventures we live through without noticing.
A few months ago, there was a total lunar eclipse that was visible from my location on the globe. I was very excited about it. I woke my kids up in the middle of the night so that they would be able to see it. Dutifully, the poor lads padded outside in the middle of the night, blanket wrapped around their shoulders. We stood staring at the nearly disappeared moon for a couple of minutes (probably less than that) and went back inside.
To be honest, I was a bit disappointed. As mentioned above, there was no music. No dragon sailed past the dark moon. We didn't see E.T. Not even a lunar moth. It was dark and cold. That's what it was. How then can it be that a lunar eclipse is being used as such a hang up in myths or fiction? It's boring is what it is. Yes, it is that exact boring part that has created the need to make it more exciting.
Such is the power of the story teller. Take a perfectly boring thing and make it appear to be more. Greek story tellers invented fables for pretty much any occurrence in nature. Why does the sunflower follow the sun with it's face all day long? Scientists have given us some cut and dry explanation, but the Greek version is much more fun. It's up to us to decide which one to believe. The quiet and real version? Or the amazing version where a young woman stood by a river, mesmerized by Apollo until the gods turned her into a sunflower?
Day to day life and its predictable patterns, as well as our age of knowledge don't leave much room for wonder any longer. Science has made it so that the weather, physics, and chemistry don't pose much of a mystery to any of us. Even if we don't exactly know where lightning will strike, we know what lightning is. The sky isn't going to fall on us since it's not solid. Ships aren't going to fall off the Earth since there is no real up or down, just a perception of it. Where can we find adventures in real life any longer?
Traveling is a great way to experience things that are out of the ordinary. Voyages, local, far away, or to the stars have captivated audiences since the dawn of time. Many of the most amazing stories have been told about travelers. For this week's editor's picks, I have assembled a few pieces that reflect traveling and the adventures that have come from it. Don't miss out on the wonders of Alaska in photo format.
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Let me know in which parts of normal life - reality - you have found an adventure. If you've written about it, I'd like to link to it in my next Action/Adventure newsletter in June.
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