Absolutely Authentic from A to Z: Daring

Authentically daring....

Today I went on a hike...it ended up being around 4 miles.  As I was hiking I was thinking about this post.  I was thinking about the daring things that have happened in my life.  I was thinking about being authentically daring. 

When I looked up the word daring on dictionary.com I got this definition:


              "adventurous courage, boldness"

 That means that authentically daring...is being real in your adventure/courage. 

I think that my life could be described as being authentically daring. 

How have you been authentically daring in your life?  Here are some of my courageous adventures:

 Seeing the Pyramids.  There is no way I can describe the amazingness that was going inside a pyramid.  To be around something that ancient.  The daring adventures that were taken through those tunnels...  Just being in Egypt itself was daring.  It the first country I lived in.  The first daring adventure I took as an adult. 

 Taking boat roads along the Nile. 

 Being an elephant owner for a day, will go down in history as one of my most daring authentic adventures, I have taken.  An animal so huge and so unique in the way it lives, works, moves, and connects to its owner.  Being bold, being confident and knowing that animal could crush me if she really wanted to.  She didn't though...but isn't that the risk I take?  Isn't that daring?

 Riding a camel up Mt. Sinai...before traveling was cool.  I will never forget the journey up that mountain.  There were times when my heart rate wouldn't stop climbing.  There were times when I wanted to turn around and go back, but I couldn't.  My heart and soul knew that journey would be one to remember...in fact it was.  That journey was the turning point in all journeys.  It gave me the confidence to keep going.  To keep living daring adventures. 

The many, many islands I have been able to see.  Each boat ride a little different from the last.  Each boat ride taking me to a place of daring escape.  A place to examine who I was when I arrived and who I wanted to be when I left. 


Sometimes I come across people that are in awe of everywhere I have been and the things I have been able to do.  Really I think it just takes daring yourself to go beyond your own limits.  Being willing to encounter people and places that are different then your expectations.  Living to gather information from all those that you come across.  That's what makes an authentically daring life. 

Have you lived an authentically daring life?  What are the daring things you have done, or want to do?