another 'into the wild' entry and a little 'the beach'

Piccole Dolomiti w/ Luca and Roby(man in pic)

i haven't had the chance to catch up on my reading and so my entries on 'into the wild' has not materialized until now. yesterday, a saturday, i opted to leave the laptop behind and took my copy of the book and sat in a shop while eating. i sat there and consciously forgot the deadlines i am currently working on. it was a simple pleasure and i enjoyed it very much. then, i realized there's a lot of simple pleasures that i have forgotten while on this road of earning money. i hate it. i hate money and that we need a certain kind of currency to live. i hate that to live a simple life means to live a hard life, at least here in manila(debatable, i know.)

an officemate said, 'you're in the corporate world already...' that's when i woke up, a jolt of reality hit me. like when chris/alex(movie version) went back to society and imagined himself to be in a suit acting just like one of them. or when richard(the beach, movie version) went for that rice run and saw the world outside the island. thing is, they both went back and rejected the idea of once again being part of it all. i didn't.

chris mccandless said to ron franz: "Mr. Franz I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one."

heavy. very heavy things have been written and i'm sorry it has to be out there.
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some excerpts from the book:

everett ruess' letters
"After all the lone trail is the best...I'll never stop wandering."
"I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly."

"So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun."

goes and wanders