Now that kid is made of epic awesome. I always complain about how there is no way to have an old fashioned adventure these days, but here comes Zac to prove me wrong.
In case you don't know who he is (http://www.zacsunderland.com/blog/index.html that's his blog.) he's the 16 and 1/2 year old who is "currently sailing across the Pacific Ocean attempting to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the world alone by yacht." How amazing is that?
Anyhoo, lets talk more about adventures. I am a fantasy/fiction reader, so I have read a good number of amazing adventures and the like. I grew up a kid who dreamed of going to Never Land, finding buried treasure, sword fighting by the light of a full moon, dancing with a stranger only to run away as the clock chimed midnight. But as I grew up, I realized that if I carried a sword around, I would be arrested. And if I said my dream was to go to Never Land, people would think I was crazy. And admitting a midnight curfew would be social suicide. So basically, my adventure dreams were crushed.
For a while I even looked into becoming a modern day pirate, but I'm not techy enough for on kind, and not mean enough for the other. Fencing classes cost a fortune, and I never took ballroom dancing because i was always too busy. I couldn't even try to imagine a way to do the Never Land thing, join the circus maybe? Learning to do things on the trapeze might be like flying, but I'd never get anywhere.
Even the modern day adventures were out of my league. I couldn't imagine stowing away on a ship and getting stranded somewhere. I could never follow a trail of little blue envelopes across the Atlantic. There was no chance I was a witch, (i waited until after midnight on my 11Th birthday to go to sleep, just in case my letter came.) and I didn't have a weird power like Charlie Bone either.
But then here comes Zac with a real, actual adventure. Sure, he won't have to sword fight to the death to keep his ship, but he could (probably will) experience some killer storms, the kind that would make me want to curl up in a ball and not look until it was way over.
That is so crazy cool. Mad props to that kid. He's got guts.
What is (or was) your dream adventure?
1 comment:
I feel like commenting in number form. Sorry.
1. Good fricken heavens you should be a writer. WE SHOULD WRITE TOGETHER! We can be like.
Wow that was great. I can't even remember any famous people who wrote a book together. John Green & M.T. Anderson! I dunno. But as that probably wont happen, you should be a writer c:
2. When I was younger, I was very opposite from you. I liked living life through other people.. For example, the tons and tons and tons of books that I read. Those were my adventures. Or I used to play with all of my stuffed animals, make them all friends [always older than me, because the age I was at always sucked] & they all went out and did adventurous things together. I always dreamed of doing that someday, finding a big crowd of close friends & being adventurous & outgoing with them. But the closest I got to that was my stuffed animals. "/ Oh well.
3. I'm gonna read that guy's blog now c: Well not right now, but sometime soon. He could be another adventurous novel to me, only he's real.
4. What did you really dream of? I mean, career-wise. 'Cos obviously you had to have gotten to a certain age & wanted to be something other than a pirate or something like that.
5. Up until a few months ago, I wanted to be a writer. I had the passion for it & I thought I was pretty good & I could imagine myself in college, majoring in anything involving writing & not speaking in front of a lot of people. & then I got told that writing in college really isn't that much fun. They make you present. They make you have a certain amount of pages in every essay and piece you write. They suck out your creativity & put it in a special box where you can't get it back. They don't make anything of you but another writer zombie. I didn't want to be a writing major anymore after that, even though I had wanted to be a write for years.
I was coming up with stories as soon as I learned to write.
I'm still undecided. I'm thinking art history or photography now. Except I don't have a camera to figure out if I'm any good.
/long comment.
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