My new position at work is keeping me really busy and it's still very exciting, however, today and after 5 weeks away, it was kind of nice to get back home, even if it only feels like a temporary place to live.
During those 5 weeks I was incredibly busy, more than I could have ever expected, but it was a pleasure to teach and see my students pass their exams in the end. One thing that bothered me was that, after all that time, I felt nothing when yesterday I said goodbye to them. How can I be so cold sometimes?
Anyway, I was lucky that there was some people there that I knew and who offered me great support and a lot of company, but sometimes I felt the need to be on my own, take a long bath and then sit on the sofa watching a movie with a beer in hand. And I had just the perfect movie to watch. It was a recommendation by one of my colleagues, who was also very eager to give me a copy of it, so I went and watched it.
Into the wild, based on a real life story, came out in 2007. It´s about a guy from a seemingly perfect suburban background, good student, etc. who decides to take some time to travel after college and, after wandering around the US for a while, decides to give away all his money, burn his documents and, under an alias, go to spend some time alone in the wilderness in Alaska. It really makes you think, first about society and how unnecessary are some of the things that we seem to value a lot. The realisation in the end that, however superfluous our lifes are, we need the people around us to share our joys and sorrows left me in shock.
The message itself is nothing new but, taken to an extreme environment like Alaska, the movie made me see it from a different perspective.
Just to finish for today, a quote from one of the last scenes of the movie:
"[written into book] Happiness only real when shared."
