Adventure: A thing about to happen to anyone

Other definitions:

That which come to us, or happens without design, chance, hap, fortune, luck.

Chance of danger or loss, risk, jeopardy, peril.

A hazardous or perilous enterprise or performance; a daring feat.

If there is one word that described what I felt during my 7 day intensive training to become an "underwater caver", this was it. Adventure . Not fear, nor claustrophoby, nor going where no one has ever been before, nor any such crap. Don't really know why, but this was the word that reflected what I felt.

That was last April in the karst plains of the east caribean Mexican coast. Reflecting about the word, I realized, as I often do with numerous other words that we use without a second exegetic thought, that it carried even more meaning if one was to look into its structure. Adventure, ad-venir, something that comes to you.

Bad things come, or in street jargon, shit happens. Some people go in, never to come back. But frankly, this had nothing to do with me. It's not the risk. It's what lies ahead. It's the unknown. It's the convoluted space. It's the time trip.

On the surface, nothing truly remarkable came or happened last April. But down deep, those dark, remote, water filled tunnels and galleries, where the sun never shines, exherted an irrepressible attraction that made me come back at the first opportunity.