Sentience in a seed-pod

Hello.

I was just reading this blog, when I started thinking about how as a kid you always dream about setting out on your own, across the sea into unknown territory. Now, as an adult escaping the stresses and strains of everyday life naturally leads to this kind of fantasy. But that's not when you have them. You have them as a carefree all-needs-catered kid. Perhaps the critical difference is that as a kid, you're running toward something. Your parents, your house, your friends are a given, taken for granted. Running away to a faraway place doesn't mean leaving these things behind - it means adding an adventure, the sense of the unknown, a quantum leap in learning experience.

I wonder if my trips up the mountain are biting that bullet?