Where I'm coming from and where I'm going

We were recently asked to think about where we came from, where we are, and we want to go.

Such a question is hard, it's one's existence, in words. Here's the quite pathetic try I gave it.

Where I've Come From

I've been a child, caught in imagining reality the way I wanted it to be. I've been obsessed with proving myself on the soccer field, on the basketball court. I've found joy in playfulness, lightheartedness, and fantasy. I've played video games about forests, fairies, imaginary worlds, horses and magic. Loved Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z. I've caught a boat from home to school everyday. Lived in a hotel that's built upon a mountain on a lake surrounded by three volcanoes and thirteen Mayan towns. I've been angry at my parents for fighting. I've fought my brother a lot. I've focused on girls, wondered what to do do make them like me, getting nervous in front of them, putting up fronts for them. I've focused on being wanted by friends and teachers.

Where I'm Going

I want to be in control of my state of mind. I want to have a network of people I've met throughout my time who I respect and who respect me back. They will form an integral part of the projects (which we design together) that will take up my time and energy. What motivates my work is empathy, curiosity towards the question of what it means to be human, and the unfolding discovery of the variables that form the way communities of people live, how they think and what gives their life meaning.

Apart from what I do and think, I want to get joy from relating with a beautiful woman I call my partner. If I have kids with her, I want to be in love with them, admiring their every independent creation and action and guiding them with the ideas and world view I've gathered in my years. I want to have a home in a place that's surrounded by nature, where I have the comforts, toys and tools that go along with what I spend my time on. A large collection of books, music, photographs, pieces of art that I've acquired and kept meaning throughout phases of my life.