• MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
    85·
    8 months ago

    I’m 42 and I can tell you from experience that unless someone offered to pay your rent while you were gone, calls to adventure ain’t all they’re cracked up to be…

    • fluckx@lemmy.world
      18·
      8 months ago

      But the true adventure begins when you get back, rich with cultural experience and travel! Because that’s when you realise you don’t have any money left, you got evicted from your flat, you have 1000s of dollars in unpaid bills and you’ve got nowhere to go.

      What a time to be alive!

      • variants@possumpat.ioEnglish
        9·
        8 months ago

        The trick is to take out a ton of loans and buy a bunch of adventure stuff on credit cards before you leave then just never come back

    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
      131·
      8 months ago

      I called someone to adventure once and offered to pay his rent for the month we would be gone, sounds like a good deal, right? Well he flaked out on me.

    • Windex007@lemmy.world
      9·
      8 months ago

      The harsh reality is that I (and I’m CERTAIN the collective “we”) have received dozens of calls to adventure, and we’ve just rejected them for the relative comforts of the rat race.

      • Match!!@pawb.socialEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        If you don’t follow stray cats into alleys, are you really trying to adventure?

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      2·
      8 months ago

      Honestly, a call to adventure sounds like a lot of work and I haven’t caught up on some of my shows yet…

  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
    56·
    8 months ago

    Coming to terms with the fact that I’ll never be a Gundam pilot has been a struggle to be honest.

  • WillBalls@lemmy.world
    34·
    8 months ago

    Don’t give up hope! Both Bilbo and Frodo were called to adventure by Gandalf at 50, and Bilbo left the shire for more adventure at 111.

    • greenhorn@lemm.eeEnglish
      15·
      8 months ago

      The novel Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu is a neat story about a self-described “generic Asian man” who is stuck in the “background Oriental male” role while aspiring to be the “kung fu guy”

    • Daft_ish@lemmy.world
      4·
      8 months ago

      I always liked at the end of Starship Troopers it was Zim who ended up capturing the brain bug after taking a demotion to fight on the front lines.

      • weker01@feddit.de
        3·
        8 months ago

        You can go on adventures at any age as long as you are physically able enough!

        And even then the physical requirements are not as harsh as one might think.

  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
    20·
    8 months ago

    Yes. I do have that specific stone tablet you need to continue your journey.

    But if you want me to give it to you, you’re going to have to make a whole lot of grilled cheese sandwiches for me.

    Fancy ones.

  • irmoz@reddthat.com
    191·
    8 months ago

    This but for real

    This is what finally growing up feels like and it’s shit

  • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    8 months ago

    If anyone else feels bummed out by this, there are a lot of calls to adventure you can answer at any time. 75% of fire departments in the United States are volunteer. If you’re in half decent physical shape, get out there. Disaster relief organizations like the Red Cross are good too. Lots of jobs to do where you can be sent to disaster zones for 1 and 2 week rotations, but also local disaster response, like showing up to house fires to help families find temporary housing.

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
    16·
    8 months ago

    One of my all time favorite fantasy books is ‘Glory Road’ by Robert A. Heinlein.

    The hero sees a classified ad in the back of the newspaper. “Are You A Coward?”

        • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
          12·
          8 months ago

          Which thing?

          The ad from the story, or the fact that there are humans who have never held a newspaper?

      • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
        2·
        8 months ago

        “Well, Martha, at least the damn whippersnapper didn’t ask what a newspaper is…”

        I kid. Back in the day, newspapers made most of their money off of advertising. Full page ads for things like supermarkets, furniture stores, cars, and luxury items. Smaller ads for movies, specialty shops, etc. In fact, you’ll see some older newspapers whose name was The Advertiser. The classified ads were ‘classified’ by the type of ad. There’d be five or six full lenght columns with short ads. Help Wanted and Apartments to rent would have the most spots, but there were plenty of ads for Yard Sales, Handymen, Pets for sale or adoption.

        If you read the book, the hero explains why he enjoys reading them. It’s a great novel; the author takes most of the tropes and punches them in the crotch.

        https://www.warwickadvertiser.com/

        Just found this site with a quick search, and it helps because it actually has a classified ads section in the back.

        • PlexSheep@infosec.pub
          3·
          8 months ago

          Ah I see. It’s true that I’ve never read a full newspaper, but I know these mini ad boxes exist. English is not my native language, perhaps that is why I didn’t know the term. I though classified as in secret.

          • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
            3·
            8 months ago

            ‘Classified’ as in specific they would run the ads in specific sections. All the ‘Help Wanted’ ads under one heading, all the ‘Rooms For Rent’ under another.

  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
    14·
    8 months ago

    I was once told by a friend to be positive and that I’m the hero of my own adventure (I am not lonely at that time by the way, I was moving out of my hometown, which is funny enough since I realised after that people seem to think it’s weird if you move out of town for any reasons aside from job or college opportunities). Anyway, I was indeed going on adventure by moving out of town but I never thought of myself as hero before or after. I don’t like the expression because it sounds like stoking and inflating the ego. I have a friend who seems to have that mindset when we were younger, but when our 20s came, he fell into depression for not attaining his dreams and desires.

    I think a lot of us were raised to hope and to be like a superhero making big changes to the world. Personally, I see myself as more like a traveller or soldier; experiencing and absorbing the world without necessarily trying so hard to shape the world to our own liking, and also facing challenges and adversities gracefully. Live your life to the fullest as you wish, but what I’m trying to say is be humble enough you’re only human–not a god-- and know when to fight battles.

    Edit: added more info

    • mojo_raisin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      I think a lot of us were raised to hope and to be like a superhero making big changes to the world.

      Ya, so much of our media is about “ordinary person realizes they are not just a regular loser, they are special! They have magical powers or were actually a prince or a millionaire this whole time!” especially anything for young people.

  • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
    13·
    8 months ago

    There are many calls to adventure, but we often don’t heed them because it means discomfort and risk - sometimes to the degree that your long-term survival is jeopardized with few means to mitigate that (valid), other times just because sitting on the couch seems nicer (more often than not, an excuse - but a choice you’re certainly allowed to make).

    If your ability to survive by the trial’s end isn’t compromised, I think everyone should choose at least one adventure for themselves, even if it’s something that makes you feel a little like Don Quixote. It at least gives you something to talk about.

    • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
      7·
      8 months ago

      As someone over 50, that’s because you didn’t make them good adventures

      I’ve ruined so many pairs of shoes 😂

  • vrkr
    11·
    8 months ago

    Gandalf invited Bilbo Baggins on an “adventure” when he was 50, so not everything is lost yet.