Other adventures are the result of opportunities that I've built up over the course of years through study, contacts, and work. Whether in or outside of work, adventure is an excuse to plumb the depths of your beliefs. It is an avenue of tests of your ideas and ethics and morals. What you do for yourself and for others is a fundamental statement of who you are. And what has been horrifying sometimes, terrifying often, glorious other times, and nearly mortal on occasion, has also been a constant reminder of what life is in general.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat .
It is straining your mind to the infinite and letting the rest of yourself catch up when you understand what you've done. It is taking the idea and tearing it apart so that you can put it back together. It is watching a culture shift from one extreme to another while the movers and shakers fight like vultures over the victim. And it is touching another soul so simply yet so deeply that that other person is forever changed. It is breathing.