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2008. . What will happen? | The planet seen by NASA on Google Earth |
What will happen? I tell about travels . . . .
I never make plans; it does not mean I do not have dream destinations, I have a few, I will go when time and other circumstances will allow. . . . . Having no plans, in my sense leaves a wide space to real discoveries, surprises (good or bad, and bad is part of travel, the bad experiences are “experience” and help to “improve” for the next time. . . ), only last minute documentation, and dive into the new destination, sometimes even without a real map.
You won’t see writings about my future or dream destinations in my pages; I would be ashamed not to go or postpone trips I publicised in my pages, or to “disappoint” the readers expecting the future pages after my “advertising”. . . . . So, only texts and photographs when the trips are finished: that means that you will never read about the very last (and special) trip I will travel. . .
That is a deliberate choice. |
|  | What is “chance”? Like most of us logging on this travel site I have the financial wealth to afford a computer, to afford travels, to afford discoveries and fun, to be “able” to spend money for just fun, comfort or happiness. I am extremely conscious I am lucky on this planet where out of 6.67 billion people, 4 billion have no access to what we consider as basic needs (decent healthcare, access to drinkable water, food in some cases, basic freedom of expression, freedom of thinking, even just time for thinking, etc. . . ).
I am lucky, it is by chance: I did not choose my parents, I did not choose the place where I grew up, I did not choose the colour of my skin, I did not choose to have a good health, I did not choose my genes, I did not choose to have a not too bad working brain. . . etc. . . . And God has nothing to do with that. I made choices, of course, like everybody, in the course of life, chose to train a little bit my brain, chose to learn to open eyes and ears, (and certainly made lots of bad choices), but these choices are really petty little things compared to “chance”! |
| | Those who have no “choice”! I think of my African brothers and sisters who “chose” to live in civil war (Liberia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Congo. . . the list is too long; since a few days (Feb. 5th 2008), all civilians in Chad chose to live in civil war state!), the ones who “chose” to live in draught hit Sahel, the ones who “chose” to live in Soweto during apartheid times and today, the ones who “chose” to be murdered by drugs and alcohol laden kids in Uganda, the ones who “chose” to go out to find a little bit food in the streets of Kibera and never came back home, I think of the workers of Beijing leaving home in the morning and discovering, when returning on evening, their house has been demolished by the bulldozers of the Great Cleaning Party for the Olympics. . . . I guess all people on the planet long for happiness, and these ones certainly “chose” their fate and destiny, they made the bad choice, of course! |
| | Those who make the choice to be happy! Happy few go into ecstasies watching at some monkeys next to places where they do not see how people fight for every day’s life (May I take the liberty to suggest to read “American Darling”, from Russel Banks? There is some light in there: are the chimpanzees or the human the important beings?), other spend weeks on luxury cruises passing by the townships of Durban, Manila, or Callao, and never see the shade of one of the inhabitants of the places, other admire the Taj Mahal and don’t think half a millisecond about the girl’s and women’s situation in some places of India. Well, these travellers wear blinkers, are not conscious they wear blinkers, love organized tours, love the pre-digested travel-food, follow their shepherds, it is not their fault, they are like that and travel that way.
And myself, I am possibly not much better, do not a lot for changing the world, but I travel for the countries, their people, the nature wonders (and people are also a wonder of nature!), and at least try to look and discover with a bit of perspective: I am more than conscious that the part of choice which possibly makes me happy is very very tiny!
I am lucky to have chosen a job which allows me to travel, I am lucky enough to choose my travels (and make some other more or less important choices in life), I am lucky to choose to write a few lines on this website. You read it: being in situation to choose is a matter of chance, “chance” the majority of the planet inhabitants do not have!
Many people are happy, they see only what they want to see. . . . . . . . unpleasant and unenjoyable things do not exist; like their heart, . . . . . . their eyes are closed. |
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jethanand Thu Nov 12, 2009 14:13 UTC
Hello Hermann .. hope all is well.... thank you for your good wishes and please keep posting your discoveries | Francenko Wed Nov 11, 2009 22:57 UTC
So you haven't noticed my only album;) | lynnehamman Sat Nov 7, 2009 22:15 UTC
Thanks for visiting Mumbai Hermann. Oh yes- I read Moors Last Sigh- a wonderful book, Am a great Rushdie fan. Midnite's Children my fav book. | sayduvar Wed Nov 4, 2009 21:26 UTC
it is a wonderfull morning in yr balcony and you have a nice page.greetings from istanbul sayduvar |
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