Wandering, Wondering Soul

Lost souls who failed to fulfill their destiny, are to be trapped in the sky in Van Goh's Starry Night (left)



Adventure
Adventure wanders out the door,
Dressed in a bold armor of gold,
Braving the barren roads before him.

Adventure is an experience that washes in low-key, like a budding wildflower, unnoticed until bloomed. Adventure is hardly planned, yet refuses to claim credit for the discoveries and memories you bring back. Adventure is what you make the most out of. This is how adventure wanders, it doesn’t demand, it is a calling. Adventure is bold. It is daring, courageous. Though it may target the timid, the journey it provides masks fear. Adventure accepts challenge. It is hard to reason with, yet understanding, very genuine. When danger arises, adventure seduces you in, brave and bold, yet never arrogant. Santiago set foot into the desert quite unaware of what was ahead of him. In his time, the modernistic advantages that follow us were not available back then. People too had to prioritize. Though Santiago’s father bide he become someone of religious power, only he truly knew that travel was his destiny. Culture in Santiago’s time was more demanding, less free, and less forgiving. Adventure has a distinct way of finding and following you, much like a predator stalking its prey. However, adventure builds you, shapes you, rather than destroying you. We crave adventure as it is something out of the ordinary, a change to routine. It is adventure that too shaped Santiago’s character. Realization struck him as he noticed that if his treasure had found him, rather than he having found his treasure, it would remain a possession, something almost of material. In our current day, we sing, praise, hail, material things. We chant, “mine is bigger”, therefore assuming better. As we allow mere possessions to define our character, we are forgetting that it is the simple things in life that we should account for. Santiago, a lost soul, full of curiosity, created his place in the world. The guiding hand of destiny didn’t summon him, but it was the thrill of adventure tied in, that invited him to embark on memories’ way.