First off I was never into hunting or really into fishing growing up. I had some friends of my family who took me to a lake a couple of times to fish around when I was 10 years old and I fished with family a couple times in the ocean but it was never that important to us.
In recent years I got big into hiking, camping and multi-day hikes and walks. In 2015 I walked over 3800 KMs (about 2350 miles) in Europe and during that trip was when I discovered Uncharted.
I remember having downloaded the first 3 episodes on my phone before I left and it wasn't until a cold night in Southern England when I was camping next a small town a couple miles from Stonehenge, sipping some dark beer in my tent and watching the first episode... and was blown away.
A ominous tone plays and the text shows against fire embers: "We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man."
... it fades and Jim ponders:
"Why would you leave comfort? Security? The loving arms of your family? Home?"
... I pondered this as my toes ached with cold and my body was generally sore. I had been walking for weeks.
Jim continued,: "An inuit elder told me once that home is wherever you are. And I get that, I under stand it... but that doesn't explain what drives someone to climb a mountain; or ski to the north pole; or sail off into an unknown ocean; or hunt, hunt for some that may not even exist. Where's the reason in that?"
I sipped and thought "Or walk 3800 KMs in search of meaning. Too true."
Jim continued,: "An uncharted place is not the same thing for everybody. For some people Uncharted my be a trip to the city from the country. It could be as simple as walking by yourself to school when you're six years old. That's uncharted. It's facing fears, it's facing the unknown. It's challenging yourself, pushing yourself beyond your comfort zone.
Too many times in this world people don't determine their own envelopes, they're determined for them. They're not making choices for themselves, they're making choices based on what other people think they are capable of doing.
To push beyond the borders of what you think your capable of, what other people think you're capable of... that's exploring the unknown, that's the uncharted territories."
My heart was pumped. This was how to start a show. Breath-taking scenery...
"Everyone has an uncharted desire, has a challenge they want to meet... a challenge that will make them a greater, better person. A challenge that will make them a greater, better person. A challenge that will make their life truly fulfilled. And that challenge... that... uncharted place... only you can know... only YOU can know."
Brilliant.
