Letters from the Equator

Metro – Subway – Rio de Janeiro
Originally uploaded by Claudio Lara.

I am a product of lifelong learning. Perhaps I’m addicted to it. I find it hard to sit through 20 Simpsons episides all at once, but I can spend hours trailing through Wikipedia articles.

Recently I’ve been depressed over a lot of things – my work, my life… but there has always been small windows of opportunity for me – it’s like God saying there’s light at the end of the tunnel.

So, I’ve been learning to embrace existing limitations in order to break others. I find myself asking a lot of questions – “has it always been done this way? What’s stopping me from doing this? Why am I feeling this way?” and observing life through various experiential and anthropological lenses.

I don’t know if it’s better without these challenges and opportunities – they’re a good motivator for overcoming circumstances. Better than knowing that everything is all well, with a slight prick of uneasiness at the back of my mind.

And all this piece of learning is proof that there is a God. Or I would be swimming in my own pool of self mutilation and poor navigation.