In today's world, or at least the United States, there are few places a person cannot go to with the click of a mouse or the rev of an engine.

Since 1962 the invention of the Internet has slowly but dramatically decreased the size of the world. Since 1903, the invention of the Airplane has made traveling thousands of miles in a matter of hours a reality. Since1862the horseless carriage or automobile has forever changed the face of daily travel. No longer did anyone have to spend a day on a horse or a day walking just to cover the ten-mile distance to town. Then there is the all important invention known as the remote control, developed in 1903, which allows one (through the use of radio waves) to remain in their chosen spot of comfort and control anything they choose (provided that the machine, in question, is designed to respond to remote control) by the click of a button. Though these luxuries have also increasingly transformed millions of people into lazy and adventure-less slobs.

In this century many people walk from their living rooms to the bathrooms, from their classrooms to the cafeteria or even from store to store at their local mall. In fact, the average person can walk any where from a mile to several miles on average in their normal day. Though when it comes to simply getting out of the house for a little stroll through the endless Acres of the untouched forest close by or an unexplored cave a few miles away, many adults would quickly pass the opportunity.

Is it because performing such enriching task can be exercise? Or maybe it is the danger involved. It is true that to walk through the untamed wild can be at times daunting. It includes climbing up and down mountains, or through swamps and marshes. A person could slip on a muddy rock into a lake and end up drifting uncontrollably until and often after they fall to their deaths off a raging waterfall. Though, that is the most unlikely and overly dramatic outcome. Even more so, their anaerobic and long since atrophied muscles might give out during a climb and then to shale they fall.

Perhaps it is the amount of time it takes to perform the task. Yes it is true that exploring can often take hours to do, even days and in today's hustle and bustle society, time equals money. Many either need the money too much or want it too much; never considering that what they also need or more to point what their soul needs is a period of pure unrestrained freedom. So they most often never take the time.

Life is constant movement and a never-ending travel, but because of technology that travel involves less muscle and more wires. In a mere hour seventy miles can be covered in one's new ford mustang without ever loosing a drop of sweat. Though because of this, even though time is saved and muscles relaxed, something is lost. It is something far more important then simple muscle mass. Maybe, it is the satisfaction of accomplishment or the enrichment of seeing something different from glass and concrete. Perhaps it is the mental and spiritual enjoyment ascertained from the activity. Whatever the lose it is important to oneself to fore go the machinations of life, though on second thought we need not waste time.

Source: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/251853/exploration_is_the_spice...