The Spirit Of Adventure

adventure has and always will be a possibility.
yet this is something that seems to be very much gone from most people's life. who still feels adventure and excitement in his own life and everyday routine? even rebellious youth, who in the past took on whole generations, societies, the world, now resort to modest goals as having a good time on the weekend.
as i grew up, there was the space shuttle program. compared to todays standarts, this was a rather small happening. a state run program, rarely a lift-off, you could never imagine to become one of the astronauts as it was limited to trained experts. yet it enchanted, and enchanted the imagination, of millions of people, who watched in awe the lift-offs and reports about the space shuttle. now we have a plethora of space program, run by private organisations, some even claim to be able in the future to send ordinary people into space for an okay price. but this doesn't enchant almost anyone at all anymore. in fact, most people would not even care. the sense of, and for, adventure has been diminished. the same goes for almost every other era of life. in social, cultural, political fields, no adventure can be found anymore. the utopian ideals and movements, that reached millions of people are all gone now. the task to flip the whole world order and enter a golden era, gone now. replaced with "real politics" and the likes.
people are realistic now. pragmatic. they know it all. they "know" true adventure is just a dream. "real" life is different, they say. they strive for things that are tangible - cars, houses, money - not something that dreams are made of. they think in realistic terms and concepts - not in daring, adventureous ones. they "know" higher, exciting things are just imagination. they no longer belive in them, and do not follow them. they put their focus to what is normal, standard, common.
but this is not true.
adventure is still out there. true, real adventure. unknown things, unknown pleasure. the sweet tears of ecstasy.
dream, utopia, the wonderful - all within the reach of one's hands. breaking out of routine - the option is there all the time.
adventure has gone, not because people have found that, well, real life on this world is not pretty exciting and everything else is a "dream", but because they have given up the idea of adventure, of wonderful dreams. of utopia.
no wonder adventure is out of reach for most people, out of reach in this world - if people do not even believe in it anymore, and do not attempt to reach it at all.
you can rarely attain something if you make no attempt, right? so they don't attain adventure, and this then they use as a proof it is not attainable at all.

adventure is always a possiblity. humanity behaves as a man who has found a text about a treasure hidden in a pyramid; now that he has managed to get into the secret room, he has found it empty. he is now disappointed and on the verge of giving up. but there are more secret rooms to be found, and the treasure might very likely be out there. now, in the last centures, humanity actually stacked up a lot of these "empty treasure rooms". the socialist, the cultural and other political utopias have in the past been most of the time turned out as empty dreams. marx, the hippies, punkrock didn't flip over the world.
but that is no reason to give up, or to think adventure and utopia are actually not possible.
something that is so very much real in our imagination can simply not be impossible in the "real" world.
the treasure is still out there. go for it, and you will attain it.