Adventure Question #2

[qos]

On a scale of 1 (housebound) to 10 (Indiana Jones), how adventurous are you? If you'd like to be more (or less) adventurous, why?

Ummm. . . a 2?
On a good day?

I need a lot of motivation -- either someone strongly urging/inviting or an exceptionally strong inner motivation -- to get out of my rut.

I get nervous even driving to parts of town I'm not familiar with. (Have I mentioned that I have a weirdly intense fear of being lost?)

Once I'm motivated, I can do things like spend three days in a tent in a canyon on a spiritual retreat, or take the train to Disneyland, or etc. Once I'm in motion, I can do pretty well. It's overcoming inertia that's the problem.

Comments

[tx-cronopio.livejournal.com]

Wow, really? I love getting lost -- it's the only way to really learn an area. Have you thought about your childhood and what happened then? I only ask because I got lost all the time with my mom, she was always prowling around looking for abandoned cemeteries, so to me, getting lost just means the possibility of fun times! Maybe your "weirdly intense" fear got instilled in you early on?

Oh, the inertia thing? I so get that! :) It only gets worse as I get older.

[qos.livejournal.com]

Actually, my favorite hypothesis on the fear of getting lost is a 'woo-woo' one. I also have an unusual fear of hunger, so much so that I sometimes engage in preventive eating, and feel safer if I have sports bars in my car all the time.

I wonder sometimes if I got lost and starved to death in a past life.

A more mundane explanation of my fear of getting lost -- since I don't have any traumatic memories of getting lost in this life -- is that to me knowledge is control and safety. If I don't know where I am, I am out of control in a way that freaks me out and makes me feel in peril.

[professor-mom.livejournal.com]

I'm the same way. I would rather just sit home than travel much. Having said that, I've enjoyed most of my vacations and love it once I'm in a place I've never been before. I really enjoyed my travels in the South and in New England as well.