Life can be an adventure if you have the sheer balls for it.

Unless you’re living in the confines of a prison, there’s a lot of things you can do in this world — things that’ll improve your life materially, be like a game. A virtuous circle of activity is possible.

Unlocking the secrets of good living is something we should do in our early Twenties. By then we should have a grasp on who we are and how we can best satisfy our true selves. By the time you’re in your Forties, you should have been practicing a life of no regrets.

Jeff Bezos, when he was thinking about should he risk starting Amazon.com, asked himself if he would regret not doing so in his old age. His answer was he would regret it terribly — so he went ahead and plunged in on it. He led a great adventure — a corporate adventure, one of the most satisfying there is. He succeeded.

Now, as owner of the Washington Post and his own megayacht (with helicopter landing pad for his aged helicopter-flying girlfriend), he gets to live life as he pleases. He has the money to make sure he is living a bit of an adventure at the least.

Money helps one live adventures. You can buy bikes, cars, sailboats — travel. Do the things you want to do. You also need time in which to do these great things. Time is a precious commodity, not to be wasted.

You can live an adventure in your own mind through books. Movies are not so good for this. Movies are a public spectacle, ill-suited for dreaming. But books are just right. They live in the mind, and in the mind do most of their successful manipulating work. The reminder of their manipulations is in the habits they instill in you in real life. For example, if you read Dangerous Liaisons, the popular French seduction novel, you may come away with an urge to seduce in real life. That’s powerful juju.

No adventure is worth killing yourself over, so be sure you want to risk it if there’s risk involved. Riding a motorcycle is a risk. When I had a bike, I was thrown off it, to tumble head over heels, more than once. I could have been killed. But it was worth it for me.

The chance of serious harm or death is not a bad thing to face. The certainty of death is a problem, as when you’re going into enemy territory on a suicide mission. That’s an adventure of a kind, but a final, terminal one. Not so good. But a motorcycle — good. There’s only a chance of serious harm or death there.

For women, shopping is an adventure. Their small minds cannot encompass true danger for its own sake. A horror movie on streaming video is an adventure for a chick. She cannot face up to shadows and darkness in their real form. She wilts. Like a pathetic flower.

Do not bring a female on your adventure. She’ll just be a drag, complaining about things all the time. That is why marriage is such a buzzkill for the adventurer. He wanted to experience life, and all he got to experience was the proverbial “ball & chain” around his ankle set by the woman’s eager hands.

When Hernan Cortes set out to conquer Mexico, he didn’t bring a Spanish wife with him, but fucked around with the hot native chick, who sold out her people for him. (Typical chick.)

Seduce wildly if you’re planning on living a life of adventure. The sex is hotter when it’s adventurous, in general. When it’s adventure piled on adventure, that’s multiple orgasms right there.

The life you want to lead is up to you. You don’t have to be a boring drone. There’s more than 1 successful approach open to you out there. Think of your options. Be decisive. Manage your risk to an acceptable level — then dive right in. The days of adventure are waiting to begin for you.