For fight or flight. Our bodies are built to lope through the tall grasses of the African savanna - not crawl through traffic in the suburbs of Savannah, Georgia. Our eyes were made to survey the open landscape in search of predator and prey, not to squint for hours at computer screens in flickering florescent light . Our limbs were formed to stretch toward the sky, not to bend over steering wheels and keyboards. Homo sapiens were designed with greater things in mind.
Life is exciting.
Adventure, as a daily practice, recharges us with the elemental energies necessary to sustain life. In place of the chronic, debilitating low-level buzz of subliminal stress, it substitutes the vitalizing influence of immediate challenges, tangible victories and instances of ecstasy. The human psyche thrives on a diet which includes occasional moments of complete triumph, devoid of ambiguity and worry. Mental health requires action, large goals successfully reached and recast toward the next horizon. In philosophic terms, we need once again to find the thread of our lives among the stars, seeing our personal sagas written large as heroic quests, not miniaturized for convenient download into our Handsprings and Palm Pilots.