While so many of us claim to want our lives to be filled with adventure, the word we’re using and the reality of our experiences could hardly be more different. In some ways, for many of us adventure becomes not just a preference but a need within us crying out to be fulfilled. We perceive that a life without it wouldn’t be a life worth living. And while that may or may not actually be the case, the fact remains that what many of us conceive of as adventure is in reality anything but.