Trekking Through the Adventure
I think most of us would like to be described as adventurous and would say that we are open to adventure. To be adventurous sounds youthful, exciting, attractive, and full of life. However, I think that we usually forget the long, drudgerous, exhausting, desperate, discouraging, and at times painful road to Mordor. Bear with me. I am a literature teacher. Before I began cancer treatment, I was in the thick of a beautiful year of the Inklings and, of course, The Lord of the Rings . What makes a journey adventurous is the measure of risk, the capacity for danger, and the number of new experiences. For a story to truly be adventuresome means to undertake great peril. Indeed, the closer one comes to absolute failure, if not demise, the greater the adventure. We like to romanticize adventure and forget this part. We like to focus on the hero carrying the wounded up the mountainside to glory, not the betrayal that led to that moment. But without the betrayal, the hero could ...
