"Peace Out, Enjoy Life, Live the Adventure"

Ok, so how many of you guys have heard of Louis Cole?
If you haven't, go check him out. Seriously, do it.
It takes about 21.4 seconds on his Youtube channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/FunForLouis/featured) or about half of that time on his Instragram (http://instagram.com/funforlouis) to realize that he is living a crazy cool dream of adventure.

It takes about 49.7 seconds to start feeling totally pumped about life.
I mean, he is a skydiving, cave swimming, white water rafting, spear fishing, snake charming, kangaroo feeding, hot springs exploring, penny board riding, dread lock sporting, sunset marveling, head-over-heels surfing, deep sea diving, tower-repelling, never met a stranger, carpe diem type of man.

Louis Cole, inspiring the world to Live Mas since 2012.

Wow.

It takes about 104.2 seconds to start comparing your Instagram selfies to his. My dramatically captioned artsy photo just don't really stand up to a selfie with a Maori Chief or doing a backflip in front of the Taj Mahal.

It takes about 105.1 seconds to start planning your next trip.
I mean, how could you not? 592,287 people on Youtube hang on his every post. Through him, we vicariously get to travel to Brazil and Australian and Kenya and England and India and Norway and on and on and on and on.

It makes you wonder if it's possible. Could I possibly leave everything and just travel the world for a year? Two years? Forever?

The world is an awfully large place. People always say that the world is shrinking because of the internet, but I think the exact opposite is true. By being exposed to these crazy Youtube videos, I am inspired to live a life of adventure and exploration.

That doesn't even necessarily mean leaving my own city, though. It means that I live to the fullest every single day no matter where I am or how much money I've been given or how many friends I have or how healthy I am. Life doesn't wait until tomorrow. It starts today.

I choose to live life to the fullest today, tomorrow, and every day following that for the rest of my life.

And, maybe someday, I too will travel the world like Louis. But, more importantly, maybe I will be able to inspire someone else to seize each and every day with every bit of enthusiasm and energy they have for the glory of the Lord.

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"Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present." -Master Oogway

"Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God." -Jim Elliot

"There is no passion to be found in playing small- in settling for a life that is less than the on you are capable of living." -Nelson Mandela

"We were made to be courageous." -Casting Crowns

Vale La Pena

I believe that one of the most incredible experiences you can have in this life is to wrap yourself in another culture, and I mean really envelop yourself in it. Breathe it in deep until its essence coils around your bones and makes your brain hum. Soak it up until your tongue sings with the sweetness of their idioms and the tears that squeeze out from belly-aching laughter sizzle on the pavement with the burning passion of new understanding. 

It's beautiful. 

To lose yourself in the torrential tornado of a thousand new ideas is to find a little piece of humanity within yourself that you'd never noticed before. 

But it comes at a cost. 

As humans, we are bound by the limits of time and space and consciousness. 
Our bodies are confined to one location at a time, and while we are in one place we will forever desire to be in another with that new fleck of discovered humanity.
We are limited by time, only able to visit one place at a time or learn one language at a time or make one new friend at at time,
And we are limited by consciousness. No matter how desperately we love someone, we cannot think of them all the time. And the more people you love, the more people that jostle for your attention in a finite world.  

That is the price of falling in love with a thousand fragments of a scattered world. We are not Enough to gather them all. But, from the pieces we do manage to clutch tightly to our hearts, we are able to extrapolate an image of what we are missing. 

That is where imagination proves itself to be God's greatest gift. 

"I am in love with cities I've never been to and people I've never met."

With every piece of the puzzle we collect, the more we realize the cosmic infinity of our universe. 

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom." -Socrates

Wonder is the cure to the mundane, and God, as the creator of the universe, has surely proven Himself wondrous. 

"Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who alone works wonders. And blessed be His glorious name forever; and may the whole earth be filled with His glory. Amen and Amen." – Psalm 72:18-19

God, creator of earth and the cosmos and all the heavens, how vast is your imagination! You have filled the earth with the abundance of your richness, and I count my experiences with your creation as my greatest treasures. Even though my mortal consciousness is not big enough to hold the world, I know that Yours is. You've got the whole world in your hands, so I am content with my jars of sand. 

"Vale la pena"