You’re reading this while bathed in the light of a fluorescent bulb or a cathode ray tube.
Get out!
There’s more to see than there is on the Internet. There are places you can go, and see, and smell. You might fall down and scrape your knee. You might achieve ecstasy. You might see God. You might see your unpleasant next-door neighbor. You never know.
Get out!
There are actual physical people of all sorts and dispositions, with bodies of all types. You haven’t met very many of them at all.
There are places of all kinds, with climates and distinctions of all varieties. You haven’t seen very many of them at all.
Get out!
Turn off the computer, the tube, the stereo, the iPod, the phone, the pager, and stand up, and walk to the door.
Get out! Get out now!
Commentary: There’s no substitute for real experience, and avoiding it is a disease which is too prevalent in the relentlessly virtual and connected World of The Future. Take time out to be less virtual, and less virtually connected. Seek ye the real. Your mom said it was too nice a day to be playing indoors.
Your mom was right. Every day is too nice a day to be playing indoors.
Travel, especially to new and unfamiliar places, can be the extreme form of GetOutALittle-ism, particularly if one is open to adventure and exploration. Develop your place memory and sense of direction, carry a compass at all times. Learn to read a map, if you can’t already.
Abandon expectation, reality will fool you every time.
Be open to new experiences. Now, get up off your ass and go find some.
