Why do we stop being superheroes like we imagined ourselves to be when we were kids?

I spotted little Spiderman from the window of my second floor apartment earlier today, running around the main square having the time of his life.

It got me thinking, in our journey towards adulthood, when did we lose that sense of play, imagination and wonder?

Why are we so often told to “grow up” and start acting like an adult, putting away those childhood dreams of ours where anything that we could have dreamed of was within reach and not beyond the grasp of our imagination. What does being a “grown up” really mean?

The reality is, I don’t know.

In many ways, I still feel like this kid in the picture above running around with a Spiderman costume on, with a burning desire and certainly the child-like curiousity inside of me to continue to explore the world around me.

A trip idea that a few friends and I have been throwing around for a while now, is a month-long journey by train across the vastness that is Russia, beginning all the way in St. Petersburg (or perhaps Moscow) and ending our journey in Vladivostok on the other side of the country. This probably won’t happen for another couple of years–given all of the planning, coordinating among friends and the need for money saved up involved. If this is a trip that interests you, certainly feel free to drop me a line or leave a comment below.

Now that I have officially mentioned this trip on my blog, to a certain extent, Im committed to making it happen.

I also want to backpack across India and South East Asia at some point in my life, but that is a topic for another day.