On literary adventures that are not adventures: Do You Know Quijote? (Part 1)

Perhaps it's a sickness, but I don't yet realize what it means to be modern. They say rain washes everything away: washing away the footprints.--Do they really wash away though? In this world of cause and effect--the world of science--one step must follow the next. At the end of the day it is easy to forget that without that first step I would not be sitting on my bed with the window open and hearing the rain as it cleans the streets as I write. From May onwards Don Quijote has led me on an adventure of sorts. Though not those of the physical kind. But in reality, Don Quijote never experienced an adventure...and yet he traveled. the first step means the world but it is easily forgotten. Tradition-wise, we seem to live in a world where tradition is kicked to the curb for the sake of "being modern." I see it plastered everywhere and it reveals itself in various motto's and maxims: "you only live once...so live in the present"; "be free form the past/future"; etc... The present is our honey and we are to succumb to it. Honey is sticky and once one grasps it it becomes a handcuff of sorts--till you wash with soap. Water helps... The irony of it all is that this is the second step. Elevators don't work here; one can skip landscapes...