Life is an Adventure

Years ago I was awkened by the reality that so often our lives are consumed with watching others live. We spend our time and money going to movies, watching tv and reading books about someone else's great adventure while we sit there doing nothing. I have decided that I will not watch others live. I will experience life and my children also will experience life. This doesn't mean that everyday is an adventure. Instead it means everything is an adventure. Adventure can be found going to the store, helping a friend, or chasing alligators in a swamp! We have decided that our adventure will not come from someone else's imagination, but instead it will come from what we experience each day of our lives.~Jay

"It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly...who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt, 1910