Beautiful, simple, inspiring…
Another book thank I absolutely love.
"So much Sea, rather than
separate us, brought us together. In 141 days of absence, from start to finish,
the Paratii made his trip and returned to Jurumirim. The Earth is really
round. Along the way, I came to think that neither wind nor waves, or ice
were too bad because, in the end, nothing prevented my boat to return
in one piece to his´s Bay. And nothing was better than going to find
out. Upon arrival, embracing the three, I realized the sea of our House
has no end.
Worse
than being cold up and down with in the South Indian Ocean waves, would have
been not gotten this far. Or never have let the warm and comfortable waters of
Paraty. Even if it was just to find out how much they were warm and
comfortable. I felt a strange welfare working around ice so far from
home.
Today I understand my father. A man needs to travel. By his means, not by stories, images, books or TV. On his own, with his eyes and feet, to understand what is his. To plant one day his own trees and give them some value. To know the cold for enjoying the heat. To feel the distance and lack of shelter for being well under his own roof. A man needs to travel to places he doesn't know for breaking this arrogance that causes us to see the world as we imagine it, and not simply as it is or may be. That makes us teachers and doctors of what we have never seen, when we should just be learners, and simply go and see it."
Today I understand my father. A man needs to travel. By his means, not by stories, images, books or TV. On his own, with his eyes and feet, to understand what is his. To plant one day his own trees and give them some value. To know the cold for enjoying the heat. To feel the distance and lack of shelter for being well under his own roof. A man needs to travel to places he doesn't know for breaking this arrogance that causes us to see the world as we imagine it, and not simply as it is or may be. That makes us teachers and doctors of what we have never seen, when we should just be learners, and simply go and see it."
Amyr
Klink in Endless Sea
