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Forgot some stuff

What did you do today?

Just watched some movies

Movies? Really?

Yes, 2 movies

Was that it?

Yes, why?

Well, that means you forgot the cardio, forgot to build strength, forgot the meditation, forgot to train your brain with some equations, forgot to improve your creativity, eat some fruits, forgot to tell your friends you love them, forgot to go for a walk to clear your thoughts, forgot to write your diary, forgot to visit a new place, forgot to learn a new language, Bruno forgot so many things!

Yeah, I was planning to do those after the movie

I don’t believe you

It’s true! look, I even wrote it in my calendar:

8 am: watch the new rurouni kenshin movie

10 am:  watch monoke hime (again)

1 pm: going for a run

2 pm: doing 50 pull ups (or more)

3 pm: vipassana meditation

4 pm: solve for x

5 pm: paint a free representation of a yet undiscovered world resting inside the mountain (and his inhabitants)

6 pm: tell Taiwanese people you love them

7 pm: eat 10 fruits

8 pm: go for a walk around lake Matheson or lake mapourika (you get to choose)

10 pm: write the story of a stray puppy on your diary

11 pm: hitching a ride across a transatlantic heading towards eastern island (?)

Sometime after that: learn the islander’s language, maybe.

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Ellen knows!

The thing about Ellen is that she has the mind of a child. While most of us complicate our existence overthinking every little thing that happens, Ellen sees the true nature of things.

Some years ago, when we were in her car, I think she asked me how do I make money.

So I just told her the truth, that I usually find it on the street.

After that I explained where, when and how I usually found it.

She replied “oh now I know why you find money on the streets”.

‘Why?’ I asked, and she said “because you’re looking for it!”

It was so simple but yet I haven’t really thought about it before, she saw right through me and just said it with that striking confidence of hers

*surprised*

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about 30

Man, I’m almost 30

You’re not even 29

Almost 30 is terrible!

Why?

Well, I’ve been wasting my life, I don’t want to turn 30 and realize I’ve never cycled around south America, never took the transiberian across Russia, never climbed Kilimanjaro, never saw the northern lights

That’s crazy, what have you been doing with your life?

I don’t know, time just slept away somehow

Just like that?

Yeah I don’t know what happened!

It’s not too late you know

I know, but still

There’s still time!          

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Evolution of hitchhiking

Shall we use a sign? 

Signs are for beginners, we are pros now!

We don’t need one?

When we started hitchhiking we used signs because we were shy, we didn’t know what to do or where to stand and wanted the sign to do the job for us

And now?

Now we are pros, we don’t need a sign, or a backpack to look like backpackers, or a map to show our driver where we’re going, or a compass, nor we need those books and glasses we used to carry around while hitchhiking to pretend we were harmless students

So what do we need now?

A drink of course

You mean an alcoholic drink?

Not necessarily, any drink would do it, sometimes even a fruit or vegetable, carrot and apple specially because they are not messy

And how to do it now?

Drink in right hand, left thumb up facing the cars you want to stop

That’s it?

That’s the magic of it you see, same as at a party, the drink conveys the message that you are very relaxed and they should pick you up because you are awesome

Or drunk

Either way

About Ariel

Probably no other moment had a greater impact in my life as those 10 seconds when I was walking around the pedestrian street in Rosario and saw a familiar face walking towards me.

It was ariel gutierrez, he was listening to some song with his headphones but he wasn’t just singing along, he was shouting the song, so loud everyone was staring and creating an opening for him to walk through as they thought he was just some crazy person screaming on the street.

But I knew him, I knew he wasn’t crazy; he was just special, like me.

And he didn’t care that everyone was looking at him or that they thought him crazy. He kept walking and singing and smiling and doing a little dance.

And I thought that’s the person I want to be, I used to admire him.

I thought I want to be happy and sing without caring what others would think.

I want them to know I’m special too and they should open the way for me, because I’m also coming through and don’t care if they think me crazy.

I’m coming through anyway.

Note: ariel gutierrez was my best friend for a while, someone I would tell everything and trust my life to, then we fought because of some silliness and never saw each other again. He was probably also the reason I stopped eating meat. And I used to have a crush on his sister, who also had a crush on me, but nothing ever happened because when I was in argentina I was afraid of talking to girls, and she was also afraid of talking to guys, so we never talked, Just blushed and giggled nervously.

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Someone’s hiding in the dark

I’m always hiding behind some bushes at night, hiding from the people and the police because I find it sickening the fact that I live in a society that has to pay for sleeping, and frowns upon those who refuse to do so.

Often wonder if there are others like me, people hiding, in the same city, maybe in a nearby bush, people who are also wondering if there are others like them

Probably there aren’t, well there millions in poor countries like india, but those are people who don’t have a choice, so I don’t really feel as they are the same as me. Because I do have a choice, I do have a bit of money to pay for rent or for a hotel, and even if I didn’t I know couple of hundred people that would let me crash in their couch.

But still I choose to sleep on the street, or hide because it’s my nature. Because it’s something I instinctively do, when I’m just walking around somewhere I always keep an eye out for places to sleep, where I would be concealed from people, protected from the elements and the wildlife, where I can have a good night sleep.

And it’s not about the money anymore, it’s not about saving money it’s about doing what I feel like doing and about being by myself, because most days I don’t feel like socializing and talking to people, most days I just feel like walking around during the day searching or gathering food, and find a shelter for the night.

That’s what feels right, my body wasn’t designed to sit and play league of legends for 14 hours in a row, it was designed to look for food and shelter, to survive the cold, the night, the predators (now we call them  police), to adapt and thrive in a hostile environment.

It just feels right somehow.

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About rainbows

This days I saw lots of rainbows in the glacier, because it rains every day, and was thinking what did our ancestors thought about rainbows? and northern lights? and earthquakes? And those fireballs in laos?

they should have been so confused!

I wonder if they were humble enough to admit they hadn’t the vaguest idea what they were, or maybe they just rushed to attribute them to some supernatural source, because hey, they were always high right?

Or maybe they weren’t, I’m not an anthropologist but I suspect they were always eating some hallucinogenous roots or mushrooms or fermenting some strange alcohol, because why else would they invent all this crazy stories and rules, gods, sacrifices, they had to be like really high 24/7, right?

Humans just started recording history accurately around 100 years ago, before that we have some sort of idea what was going on, but there’s lots of guess work involved, like with the voynich manuscript, we understand there are some drawings of some plant and its parts, some recipes, and the rest is just speculations, hundreds and hundreds of pages of sweet speculation.

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Whatever 17

Why do you always talk to yourself?

Because I’m crazy?

You are peculiar, we agreed not to use the C word, remember?

Ok, then because I’m peculiar

And why is that?

Because I’m not good with people

And you know why?

Because I’m different somehow?

We are all different in some ways

But I’m special

In which way?

In the way that I enjoy conversations with myself more than with other people

And why is that?

I’m not sure, maybe because I get to ask myself the right questions and challenge them, like a psychologist would.

And maybe also so that you don’t need to put the effort to get to know, interact and understand other people?

Maybe, but this way seems to work alright, so why should I change it?

Because people need you, they need to be in touch with, they need to understand you

People know me too well already, they know I say what I want and I do what I want, they understand I’m not so good with people that’s why I talk to myself

But some people need you to take a break from talking to yourself and talk to them also, they need attention

They are old enough already, they don’t need me at all

It’s got nothing to do with age, they need to know you are there for them; they need to know you care

They know that already, people who read this know more or less where to find me, they know how to contact me and they know if they ever need anything I’ll be there for them. But I can’t keep in touch daily  because I’m always traveling and internet is a luxury in NZ

They know that, but they think when you do contact them you could try to be nicer to them

I’ll try to be nicer then

But not in a condescending way

I know, I know

You’re not better than anyone else and you know that

I know! And I’ve never implied I was, I know I’m a prick sometimes, but I’m trying to change that

Thank you for your honesty

I’m glad we understand each other, I need you, you know

I know, you need me to tell you the truth and broaden your perspective of events and people around you

And to be there for me

Alright, you’re not getting emotional are you?

Never

At least 50 times a day

You’re right, who am I kidding, I love you man

Have a good night

Whatever

Friendly reminder to myself

I know many people get offended when they read my posts, because my outlook on life is quite different from everyone around.

I know also I’m not the nicest person around and my lack of tact often hurts people, so I’ve been thinking about ways to change that.

The easiest way would be of course to just stop talking, but that can be quite hard when I live in a society where people talk to me.

Other way would be thinking twice before speaking, that works well in the short run but after sometime you just forget about it and go back to your old ways.

So I have designed a way to remind myself to be nicer to people, live in the moment and think twice before talking, ok ok, I haven’t really designed it, just copied from the film inception.

A reality check, a 10d, and when I see it, will trigger the best on me

Hope it works!

backpacker hotels in new zealand

why dont you want to stay at the backpackers hotel like all the other foreigners in new zealand?

because they are lame

but it's the norm, young travelers here are expected to stay at the backpackers hotel, didn't you hear?

actually i did hear it, but it's still lame, I'm not gonna pay for sleeping, at least not for sleeping in a filthy crowded place, for that i can just sleep on the street. when one pays for a hotel one pays for privacy, if you're not gonna get that why paying in the first place?

as i said, social conventions dictate that they HAVE to stay at the hostel, share the room with many people, and socialize with them of course

that's non-sense, I don't want to socialize! what am I supposed to talk about with all this people?

I don't know, you'll think of something

and what if I can't afford it?

in that case you borrow money from someone and stay there anyway

crazy, do you even know how expensive those places are?

yeah, anything between 20 and 35 dollars for a dorm room depending on the city

alright lets say its 30, that's almost a thousand dollars a month for a dorm room, it's just too much

well you're not in asia anymore

regardless of the country, lets say it costs 25 per night, and they have 15 rooms with 4 beds each, that's more than 40.000 net profit a month. and they don't pay taxes, they give you no invoice, they don't pay their employees because they always have someone working for accommodation, they charge you for things that are provided free in any other country, like internet and towels. There's is not one hostel or backpackers hotel in new zealand that provides free internet and that's like the very basic thing they should provide for travelers, well besides the bed of course.

how do you know so much about this places if you don't use them?

alright alright, i did go to one in auckland when just arrived in new zealand, they said it was 32 dollars and then they said it was 5 more per day if i wanted internet.

alright, they are a bit overpriced, but i think most people who stay there don't really pay for the bed, but for the experience, they get to meet so many people in a very very short amount of time

like speed dating

exactly like speed dating, you know they are young, they are on holidays and they want to have fun. what is 30 dollars if you can meet 50 people of the opposite sex in a relaxed environment and hook up with some of them

I see, so they pay to hook up. that means I've been doing it wrong all this time.

it's ok you didn't know, you thought they were just paying for a place to stay because they are rich and too good to sleep on the streets

well, whatever, I'm not all that into promiscuity anyway

you don't have to, you can also meet that special someone there and you know you can actually find so many free stuff there, things people left behind like tents, sleeping bags, laptops, lots of clothes and gadgets

who would leave their laptop behind?

they just forget them or get tired of carrying them around so they leave them there

so if i pay 30 i can get a girl, new clothes, tent and laptop

and more, sometimes people left behind food and shoes,

food, girl and laptop? really?

really

but still, 30 dollars, oh man

you could always sneak in, worse case scenario they kick you out, they're not gonna call the police, doors are always open and the staff doesn't know most of the people staying there

you and me? sneak in together?

yeah and him

him too?

yes

alright, this trio could work!