What does adventure look like in a world that has largely been explored?
Today, when we have questions, it’s because we don’t know; in the past, because no one knew.
That’s a very different world. And today I ask...is the world really at our fingertips if everything is already in arm's reach?
It may be that more problems arise out of existential boredom than do our own insignificance in the face of them.
But there was a time when life was less about finding answers, and more about learning to live with questions.
And that’s an ability — a way of being that’s largely lost on our world today. Tarrying in the in-between, allowing for ambiguity, not vanquishing but prolonging in the presence of the unknown...
These all temper a very different kind of wisdom, and gentleness, and courage, that are not known to the man who knows everything else.
There is very little that we yearn for today. It’s more often that we are to want something — something which can be held or attained. But a yearning is for something which can never be owned in this way.
This is the difference between knowledge about life, and a life known only through living.
Knowledge about life is often passed to you, and so from someone else. But the life that you come to taste can only be your own. This isn’t simply a life better worth living — it’s the only life there is to be lived.
It’s not that some things you simply should see for yourself. But that some things can only be seen for yourself. And all the things that will make your life an honor to have lived, exist in this way.
And that too, you must see for yourself.
— David Kennedy