everybody is leaving

"Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they’ve known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? Why climb this Mount Everest of formalities that makes you feel like a beggar? Why enter this jungle of foreignness where everything is new, strange and difficult?"

Life of Pi, Yann Martel.

Sara, a friend whom I haven't talked about on this blog is starting up a new job, a new life. That's what the subject of her last e-mail said. She's leaving her parents home and the safety of her job for the unknown, for a vast inmesity of endless possibilities elsewhere. She's going to Latin America, again.

She's not the only one. Chris, a friend I met in India, is moving to Japan next month. He does not know when he'll come back. Maybe he never does.

Pablo is in Ethiopia shooting a documentary. His first time in Africa. I have the feeling it won't be the last.

I admire people who have the guts to leave everything behind and take the chance to explore new countries, new places, new fields of themselves...

I wish them all good luck.