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Fresh Perspective, Cold Air

Try and think of your reaction if someone were to come and tell you "lets go on an adventure." Do you pause? Do you already have your bags packed? Is your idea of an adventure going to Walmart at 4am? Do you rescind their request at the awful thought of leaving your house like Bilbo at the beginning of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien? Do you want to go climb a mountain (I do!)? Something about facing the unknown drives each person into a different state of mind. People are different. This is my final year of undergraduate college and I am unsure of where I will be living in the coming months. I have no job prospects as of yet, no savings, and no experience beyond the textbooks in which I have spent countless hours enveloped. Needless to say, on top of all of my course load, this doesn't help my stress level.  Yet, something inside me still wants to hop up and go explore the mountains for a couple weeks. Adventures can be little things which help give us some perspec...