terça-feira, 6 de março de 2012

Throw away my time, the opportunities...

One time, I was talking to a couple of good friends - I mean good friends - about my plans of leaving for a longer time (1 year or more), and one of them came up to me, with the following: "But you're gonna throw away your life!"
He had good intentions.  I explain: in the place where I live, 99% of the newly grad people aim public jobs.  In Brasil, you need to go through a tough test to get into one.  Tougher to get a really good one.
It's just like women, at certain age. (lol)  They see, think and breath marriage, marriage, marriage! (you can't deny that!  Go date a late 20's, early 30's girl!)
So, if you do something a bit different than not following that social pattern, you're called CRAZY! (ok, not by everybody...the rest choose the polite way, and keep that thought to themselves!)
Anyways... I was either 29/30 years old...
That made me think.  Think that, by the things I've had done/made, I'd not be throwing away anything that significant - in a material way, since that was his focus.  Actually, I'd throw away - to use his terms, because I strongly disagree - nothing.
Plus, by the people our age that had rushed into that race - they were already bored with their jobs or depressed because they didn't get one, or...girls!...getting divorced!!! - well, I'd not feel sorry to leave that all for later!
And I've not been, since then!

Everybody talks about changing their lives, not following the standards, being audacious, doing something that fulfills them... I say: uh huh!

Random pictures, from my non-enlightening, non-fulfilling, non-adventurous, not fun experiences:



You know what?  For now, I wanna leave things just the way they are!

segunda-feira, 5 de março de 2012

Tiradentes and Ouro Preto '09

A few trips I've made, a million pictures I've taken!
So far, I'll add the ones I took when I went to the charming and historical small towns of Tiradentes and Ouro Preto, in the countryside of Minas Gerais (one of the main states, in Brasil).  The first ones are from Belo Horizonte's (Belô, as locals say) street fair (on sundays), though.
I've said that one of the things that impress me the most is how things happen on the way.  The people you meet, the places you end up visiting (that are not in the tour books)...the occasions you could never had planned! 
The short duration of this trip gives the opposite dimension of it's importance.  


I'll take ya to the jungle!