Is it normal for me to want my life to be a real adventure?

I don't know if anybody feels this way, but the other day it just kind of hit me -- that life is so boring, so predictable. Is it normal to want more? Like an honest to god adventure. I feel so foolish wondering this, but I just need to know if anybody else wishes their life was something straight out of a movie. Like being in sword fights in Victorian England, or being on the run after escaping a prison. I sound so childish right now but the feeling has been nagging at me for days. Does anyone else feel like they want their life to be something exciting? I can't accept that everyone in the world is just going to school, getting a job, getting a promotion, dying, in some kind of clockwork frenzy. I know that none of what I wish for is actually possible, since most of it takes place in bygone eras (Speaking of which -- is there any romance left in the 21st century?), but it doesn't stop me from thinking that, if I can never actually be a pirate or rob a bank or ride off into the sunset, at least maybe I can know that I'm not some sort of freak for wishing for it. Or maybe I am, I actually won't know until someone responds :)

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Comments ( 17 )
  • tentacleTherapist

    Wanna join me? I was planning on running away with a 'family' [not by blood, not sure if you understand what I mean, like a clan/group]. Just be sure not to chicken out.

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  • qwerty246

    Kill someone, then flee the country.

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  • Psychestoned

    Smoke some weed and life will feel like an adventure for a while.

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  • Scythehood565

    Yeah it is I feel like that all the time if I were u I'd go out more I leave my house at night and walk around for example

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  • SplinterWingz

    I'm 18 and I'd give up all that I own to go on one amazing adventure. Except my drumkit of course.
    However, i've been blessed with the life of someone who see's beyond the curtain of normal and boring everyday life and while i'll never exchange this path for anything else, it's not always as it seems.
    You'd think it'd be cool to know things the general public wouldn't believe or will never get to know in their lives but it's lonely. Isolation doesn't feel good after so long.

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  • Stealthssination1710

    Me too! I wanna do that too. I will walk away without stopping and get lost.

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  • Devindd

    Yea I know the feeling. But have you ever watched the movie Avatar? Well you could tell what was going to happen, but you didn't know how he was going to get there. And that's how I find life as a mystery, so to speak.

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    • Scythehood565

      What are u talking about?are u ok?

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  • Zeitmeister

    I want the same all the time. I'm really starting to try and plan some great adventures for my summer so I can really "live" a little. Like previously said ya only live once!

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  • SamuraiPeeper

    I realized when I was younger that my life was never going to be the kind of adventure I loved in movies and TV, or read about, or thrust my action figures into. It was heartbreaking.

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  • PoisonFlowers

    Yeah, that's the reason why we have all these movies and books and tv shows and so on. We all crave some form of escape from the banality of life. The feeling hit me so badly when I was a little kid - I actually felt terrible. People were nagging me to get good grades and grow up to be an accountant.

    I still want an adventure! There's much to be had out there! Let's run away and go!!!!!! Muahahahahahahaha!

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  • treehugga

    yeah its totally nrmal man! u shud go do sum crazy shit!u only live once!! seriously tho! u should research sumreally off d wall shizzle n do it!if ur not tied down in a rel8 or with kids den sieze d day! go travellin n sample d gud sht n lyf!!

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  • Yes definitely normal, I think about being a real pirate probably once a month, it just sounds so exciting and like you have something to live for besides a job or school or whatever.

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  • Chill_Pill

    Sounds normal to me. I do the same thing anyway and those who say they never had a fantasy of being in some great story or movie is lying to you. Good Luck! Keep Dreaming!

    ~peace~

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  • Oh for god's sake get off the couch, or computer - and get a life!!! What a bunch of lazy arseholes.

    And then you have the nerve to complain about your lazy-assed lives!!! Unbeleivable " I can't accept that everyone in the world is just going to school, getting a job, getting a promotion, dying, in some kind of clockwork frenzy." Ya - from where? Your couch?

    You are really pathetic. Look around you. If you can't see it - you don't get it.

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    • Scythehood565

      Hey calm the hell down instead of getting all worked up give some fucking examples of what you can do

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