A Lisbon Couchsurfer's Wisdom

"If you are going to try, go all the way.
Otherwise don't even start.
This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs. And Maybe your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery, isolation. Isolation is the gift. All others are a test of your endurance. Of how much you really want to do it. And you'll do it, despite rejection in the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine.
If you're going to try, go all the way.
There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods. And the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter.
It's the only good fight there is."

i want to live.
the 9 to 5, wife two kids and a family car has very little to do with being alive. neither does oprah, religion or the monetary system. i mean really live. be free. have an impact on someone. wake someone up. build a life on impulsive and random decisions. i want to see more of our dying planet and be inspired by a few of its people. i will learn from them and hopefully i'll be able to teach something back before our rotten civilization is done. and if i find anything meaningful along the way, i'll let it seep through my skin and rest in a little memory box i call my head.

that's plan A.

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Umm, all I'm saying is I REALLY hope we can couch surf with him. Also, I think the only way this can be legal and fair is if I credit him. Thanks, Joao Esteves from Lisbon, Portugal! I hope we will be meeting from march 29-31st!!

AHA!