Get Out Alive

                
                
Go as a pilgrim and seek out danger
 far from the comfort
 and the well lit avenues of life.
 Pit your every soul against the unknown
 and seek stimulation in the comfort of the brave.
 Experience cold, hunger, heat and thirst
 and survive to see
 another challenge
 and another dawn.
 Only then will you be at peace
 with yourself
 and be able to know and to say;
“I look down the farthest side of the mountain,
 fulfilled and understanding all,
 and truly content that
 I lived a full life and one
 that was my own choice”
- James Elroy Flecker from the poem play ‘Hassan’