just started on this book, while being halfway through chasing the last laugh, which narrates Mark Twain's journey round the world being a stand up comedian to clear his debts during his silver years. Never knew he was a comedian.
Anyway back to che... it just strikes me how fearless he and alberto were, dropping out of school and travelling around latin america with barely a dime to their name, on a dingy motorbike. I think these days one can hardly find people like that. We have all been conditioned to think that our life course should be graduate from college, find a job, get married, buy a house, have kids, earn enough to retire. We crave safety, routine, comfort. and it's so easy to get trapped in this cycle. once u earn a certain amount of salary, acquire things, it becomes difficult to let them go even when we know these things hold no real value. We chase after what everyone else wants, what everyone thinks are important, never stopping once to reflect if these are the things our hearts desire too, and what they really mean to us.
How do we get out of this rat race? i dont know.
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