never forget what you want(ed)
August 1, 2010

Who didn’t want to be a pirate at the age of 10? If you read the Treasure Island there was no way you wouldn’t start fantasizing being one day involved in great adventures like Jim Hawkin, fighting Spanish ships and finding hidden treasures behind some rock in a cave somewhere in the cliffs of the island of your town (yes, I had an island in my town). Childhood is so sweet…
However childhood is not forever, and so does teenage arrive. Suddenly fantasies are replaced by dreams (or perhaps transformed into). The simple act of imagining being is replaced by the desire of doing and becoming. Then maturity comes, and most people’s life goes through the hugest discontinuity their personality will ever suffer – they give up on dreams, and forget fantasies. They embrace a new I.
I’m not like that. But I’m not a Peter Pan neither. I like to think I am more like Guybrush Threepwood, a Jim Hawkin wanna be, the main characted of Monkey Island, who wanted to become something very badly, and so he fought and did the impossible to become, in the end, what he always was meant to be.
And this attitude, far from being something naive, is in fact very brave. For what’s easier than forgetting, giving up, and never having to work hard and fight ghosts or face disappointment?
I really like this guy, Guybrush Threepwood. Go go go!




