Exploring or Entertaining?
When I was a boy growing up in the a bit bigger than small town America, I would do one of two things with my time: I would explore or I would entertain myself.
Exploration would mean walking around and finding new areas of the corn fields, railroad tracks, or old broken down barns, and pretending that I was the “ruler” of those newly explored places. Entertaining myself would mean watching TV, listening to music, or occasionally playing basketball or football when it wasn’t too cold. Exploration would keep me on my toes, every step I would be wary of what was coming next. Entertainment allowed me to watch someone else keep on their toes, at no expense to my own life (my dad typically paid the cable bill).
As I’ve grown older, I’ve noticed the same two choices, but the stakes are much higher. I could explore new paths (not necessarily geographical) and new steps in my life that are natural and sometimes scary to travel into, or I could seek to constantly entertain myself, and watch others take the risks, explore the scary, and move into the unknown. She question is…
Is 2010 going to be an entertainment year, or an exploration year?
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