I'd like to repeat the
advice I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical
change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously
never have thought of doing or been to hesitant to attempt.
So many people live
within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change
their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity,
and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one piece of mind, but in
reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a
secure future.
The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for
adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and
hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for
each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you
must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter
style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy.
But once you become
accustomed to this scheme of life you will see its full meaning and its
incredible beauty.
And so, in short, get out […] and hit the Road. I guarantee
you will be very glad you did.
But I fear that you will ignore my advice. You
think I am stubborn, but you are even more stubborn than me.
You had a
wonderful chance on your drive back to see one of the greatest sights on earth,
the Grand Canyon, something every American should see at least once in his
life.
But for some reason incomprehensible to me you wanted nothing but to bolt
for home as quickly as possible, right back to the same situation which you see
day after day after day.
I fear you will follow this same inclination in the
future and thus fail to discover all the wonderful things that God has placed
around us to discover. Don't settle down and sit in one place.
Move around, be
nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going to live a long time, and
it would be a shame if you did not take the opportunity to revolutionize your
life and move into an entirely new realm of experience.
You are wrong if
you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships.
God has
placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience.
We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and
engage in unconventional living.
My point is that
you do not need me or anyone else around to bring this kind of light in your
life.
It is simply waiting out there for you to grasp it, and all you have to
do is reach for it.
The only person you are fighting is yourself and your
stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.
I really hope that
as soon as you can you will get out of Salton City, put a little camper on the
back of your pickup, and start seeing some of the great work that God has done
here in the American West.
You will see things and meet people and there is
much to learn from them.
And you must do it economy style, no motels, do your
own cooking, as a general rule spend as little as possible and you will enjoy
it much more immensely.
I hope that the next time I see you, you will be a new
man with a vast array of new adventures and experiences behind you. Don't
hesitate or allow yourself to make excuses.
Just get out and do it. Just get
out and do it.
You will be very, very glad that you did.
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