Why do I want to do this?
I only know that I know nothing. Will I take the Arts Course? Managing ? Neuroscience ? Politics ? Psychology? Arquictecture ? Will I create a new course? A new Philosophy? Do I want to be an artist? A bum, a philosopher, mad traveler, disconnected from reality? Why can’t I be all of that at the same time? I really don’t know.
The world can teach me to clear my mind and that’s why I want to travel. Up until now I have obtained the the bulk of my knowledge through books and teachers (that aren’t more than books with legs and mouth), without space to objections, dissidences or any type of proof or test to the truth value of that subject, becoming a pseudo-scientific information. How can I have a global and real conscience that the earth is round or that the universe is infinite or that the square root of 25 is 5 if I do not test the truth value of these assertions? The verity is that the teaching of any subject has to be tested scientifically in the first person or for more sense that we want to give to that wall of text printed to that glossy sheet of paper with cute images on the side, we won’t comprehend it totally if we do not test it personally and only just listen and memorize it.
Read to Believe, not Test to Believe. That’s the anthem of our education.(much like the anthem of religions).
They take off the true scientific knowledge to give place to the crude technical information, absent from trial, experimentation. This is one of the major flaws in our current educational system. Flaws in the system that educated me are flaws in myself.
Precisely for having a truncated education with gaps that I will now try plugging them.
And so I want to travel!
I want to be thoughtful and curious, I want to explore new things, I want to draw them in the mind and metalize them on the paper, experiencing everything in every way, always in 1st person, collecting knowledge with a truthfully true value.
I want to experiment combinations, mixtures, blend substances into each other, spreading them in their states, twisting them till they crack or bow using them in my own person, writing the side effects as I start to feel them twitching in my skin.
I want to hear new airs, know dizzying fumes, smell fresh people, smoke peculiar noises never materialized before. I want to talk with chains of interesting people from every place and time ,from all the wrinkles, all the fats and sizes, all beauties, all arts, each with its tale to tell, seeing them from different perspectives, appreciating the paintings of reality they have to offer. My essence being thirsts for more and dissimilar, distinct knowledge, from distinct cultures ,From melanined men to pale ladies of the lake, with blue tinted eyes and fair as flour hair , for that I am thirsty and I want to drink! Drink from the virgin fountains various kinds of Knowledge acquired by diverse methods not like each other and never known before. I want to quench this thirst like a soulless vampire, leaving all the places i went through as dry as deserts, absent of any ray of blood or any blood related products!
What will be the next place I'll attack? SsssssssSSSsssss… Oh! and how hungry I am! How am I hungry of dishes never eaten!?Of Cotton-candy castles in Germany, down to the meatballs hills of Bolognese in the south of Italy, going to the dessert islands of the Scottish coast! Aah… how good are the delights of the sea of Sweden! And the sweets from heaven of Mount Olympus, Greece!
How tempting Europe seems to be! But pay Attention!! After all this junketing there has to be a way to stay in shape somehow, before becoming round, we’ve got to hit the road,Jack! Come with me! Pack your things and go! But takeoff in land to Flyiow through the fogs and clouds!
-João Miranda
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did so. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
-Mark twain
