What is The Misadventurist?

mis·ad·ven·ture/ˌmisədˈvenCHər/
Noun: An unfortunate incident; a mishap: "an expensive misadventure"

What is The Misadventurist? Or rather, who? 

Superficially, I am a normal guy. A person you might walk past on a normal street on a normal day; a driver you might see in a normal car stuck in normal traffic - just like everybody else. 

I like normal things: Music, partying, sex, the internet, reading, writing, playing the guitar, hitting the gym, martial arts, socialising. Nothing out of the ordinary there, right?

Peel back my layers and you will find unrest. Turmoil. Disorder. Confusion. Instability. An underlying belief that I am meant for something more. Something bigger. Something with purpose. A hunch that I am destined for greatness yet a voice which whispers I'm not. That I'll never make it. That I should just accept my lot in life and make do with what I have. 

But I defy you to present me with a normal person that hasn't felt like that.

I have had terrible things happen to me. I have suffered. I have moved on and I have suffered again. I have felt that every day is a struggle. That I am clutching at straws. That someone, somewhere has it out for me. That if there is a God, he has forgotten about yours truly. That everything I do seems to be wrong. That every path I take ends in misadventure. But again, who hasn't?

In this blog you will read about my life. You are just as likely to hear about my heartache and my endless quest to re-discover love as you are about the growth of my bicep or the things I want to achieve before I'm 30. 

But what you are guaranteed is honesty. And where possible, hindsight and retrospection. I blog my experiences in the hope that someone, just like you, might stumble across it on their darkest day and know that they are not alone. I write in the hope that you can be inspired by my victories or learn from my mistakes. Or simply, that you are entertained for the duration of your visit. 

I am not a hero. I am not a villain. I simply, am. 

Of course, we are all unique and there are ways that I am and things that I've experienced which make me different; but to find those things out, you'll have to read along.