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# Get on the plane...adventure awaits
- URL: https://www.whitwisdom.com/get-on-the-plane-adventure-awaits/
- Published: 2026-10-07T23:30:15.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-07T23:30:15.000Z
- Description: Life isn't meant to be lived in our heads.
- Author: Christopher Whitcomb
- Tags: Daily Thoughts

My wife's favorite movie is The Secret Life of Walter Mitty from 2013 with Ben Stiller. It's a feel good movie for her after a long day, on a cold winter night. It's mix of storytelling, humor, adventure and the lessons it instills about taking chances and actually living our lives to their highest potential.

If you're unfamiliar with the story, Walter Mitty works for a media company set to be closed. They will publish one more issue, but Walter can't find the negative for the cover photo. Did the photographer send it? Was it misplaced?  
  
The photographer - an adventurous Sean Penn - is out there with the answers. But, Walter doesn't really go "out there." He lives a life in which he always plays it safe.

Until he doesn't.   
  
Then he finds himself on a plane to Greenland. Jumping on a helicopter headed to a ship in the ocean. A plane to the Himalayas.

Not all of us need to get on planes to start living life to our highest potential. But there's a metaphor in there. If we want adventure, we need to leap, we need to go, we need to see the real world and not just live in our heads.

Life is meant to be lived. Adventure is meant to be chased.