Getting Away From it All

There are some people in this world that face stress on occasions. Those people have it easy. From time to time, they face a problem or a series of problems that deals to be too much for them to handle and they get stressed for a short while. Other than those times, their life is fine.
Then there are others in this world that face stress every single day. Hunger, poverty, violence, etc. The people can do nothing about any of it so they just learned to accept it all as their life. Compared to everyone else that faces it on occasions, their life is hell.

No one deserves to be stressed but everybody goes through it a few times before they die. When it comes around, you just want to leave your life and Get Away From it All.
Where would you go?
Where could you go?
Most people just escape to the depths of their mind and toward their inner thoughts because that's the only place they can go. That's where I go whenever I'm stressed.

But If I had a choice to go somewhere when stress becomes too much, I would go to South America.

Why South America?
Why not South America? Brazil is there!
I would just love to go to South America. I would love the climate, the environment, the culture, the people; EVERYTHING!

• I love warm weather.
• I find nature, untouched by man, to be beautiful.
• Most of South America has a care-free, 'I just want to live for the moment' attitude, and have a very lively aura (especially in Brazil). I need that in my life.
• I have a thing for Hispanic and Portuguese women so South America is heaven on earth for me!

I would begin my stress free journey by taking a flight down to Cape Horn, an ugly, cold place, all the way at the bottom of the continent. I would only pack a few things like: 3 outfits (Along with the outfit I already have on makes 4), A sleeping bag, a handy-dandy Swiss army knife, a few hundred dollars, and a watch my dad gave me to give me the time. When I get there I would see if I could get a rifle somewhere for hunting (when my money runs out) just like Alex Supertramp from the book "Into the Wild".

When I have all my material, I would start walking...
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Just walking. Walking where ever the wind blew me.

I would walk from the bottom of South America to the top of South America and see as many places I can, Meet as many people I can, and live as much as I can. When I've done all that I could have possible done, then I would return back to my boring, regular, stressful life.

But before I go back, there are a few places that I would like the visit on my journey.
First I want to go see Easter Island, which Is just off the coast of Chile. I want to see the island because I've heard it's a wonderful place with many wonders. I just want to admire the ancient head on the island.

Another place I want to go is to the Iguazu Falls, right between Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil.

I mean... Just look at it; bask in it's beauty. Anybody would just love to come here. When on my journey, I would probably just camp out around this area for days, just admiring all it's beauty.

One of the most important stops on my trip will be the beautiful and vibrant Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

All my life I've been dreaming to go there and I would take any chance or opportunity to get there. This city has a very lively charm to it and I would feel so happy in the town.

All the beautiful woman around.

All the lovely food

The crystal clear ocean.

I would just love every inch of that town. Not to mention the Corcovado Mountain & Christ The Redeemer Statue in the city. I would love to go there and visit one of the 7 wonders of the world.

Another place I would like to go before I leave is another wonder of the world, Machu Picchu, in Peru.

When I arrive here, I would go crazy and try to explore every room I can. I would try to find any kind of treasure (Which I doubt is there anymore).

When I'm done with Machu Picchu, I would walk through the rain forest to get to my final destination in Venezuela, The Angel Falls.

This is the tallest waterfall in the world. I would love to go up top and just Look down at everything. This would be my last destination because after going through a long, arduous journey, getting to the top of this and looking down at everything would make me feel like I've accomplished my task and I've lived my life the best I could. Looking down at everything would make me feel like I'm on top of the world and nothing could bring me down. It would be good for my confidence (and plus I would have a great story to tell when I get back home).

I would want to probably cherish this time in my life for all my life and my mind probably wouldn't be able to memorize all these moments. to help record, I would get a camera and take pictures of everything that happens and with modern technology, I would be able to give it a caption so I would know what I was doing  in each picture.

I know I would get homesick sooner or later; I just hope it would be more later than sooner. I would want to enjoy myself and just forget about my old life so I could pick up a new life. I would probably be in South America for years. Walking from one side of the continent to the other side is not short nor is it an easy task. I wouldn't mind being there for that long though (I'm sure everyone else back at home would mind though). After I've done everything and have gone everywhere on my list, I would return home to see all my friends and family I went ghost on.

It would be hard to adjust back to the normal life but I'm sure I would be able to do it. If not, I know there is always a place for me back in the south...

Blogs I Found Interesting

I'm still somewhat new to blogging so I'm just now getting the hang of finding other blogs. It took a lot of help from my good friend Google.

While looking on Google, I found some blogs that connect with my interest. For example; I'm a HUGE fan of track and field so I look for anything I can find about track. A blog I found related to track was http://masterstrack.com/. Right off the bat, I found some interesting articles. There was one about an old man, somewhere up in the 100s, who killed himself right in front of a church because "He missed being a track athlete..." Some pretty serious stuff...

Another blog I found really neat was this blog about baking. I love baked good and do a little bit of baking myself (It's only natural, my last name is Baker after all). I can probably get a few tips and recipes off this blog. http://binomialbaker.blogspot.com/

One last Blog I followed is about a singer by the name The Weeknd. I followed his blog because I Like his music and I would like to follow whatever news him and his music label, OVOXO, has to put out. When I went on the blog, I noticed he's on tour. He recently had a concert in Camden, New Jersey on Sept 18th which I didn't know about. The next time I will probably get a chance to see his performance is when he goes to NY in October. http://the-weeknd-xo.com/

Think Different

In this one minute Apple 1997 ad, narrated by Richard Dreyfuss, it presents some iconic figures from the 20th century such as Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr., John Lennon, Muhammad Ali, and Mahatma Gandhi just to name some, to symbolize the effect of thinking different. The people in this video were different and went against what was the daily life in their times. They thought differently and that made them reach the point they're at now. If they didn't do what they thought of doing, they would not be in the position they ended up in and some aspects of the world would not be alive today.

Dreyfuss talked about "thinking different" in the ad. He labeled the people that think different with words like "The misfits", "The trouble makers", and "The rebels" which implied that the perception of the people that think different from the rest of the world are crazy to be doing what they are doing. He also said "They're not fond of rules" and "They have no respect for the status quo" meaning you have to break rules and go against what's regular to be different.

People that think different stand out; the people in this video thought different and they obviously stood out. Some people may not agree with what they did or like them but they still end up giving them their attention. It's hard to ignore people that stand out. The ones that stand out move the world in a forward direction. Take Steve Jobs for example; he moved the world forward and is continuing to move the world forward with his revolutionary idea of the iPhone. Without people that stand out and think different, the world would be stuck in the primitive years.

Everybody says they want to stand out, including myself. Everyone has the potential to stand out but people are afraid to shine. I try my best to expose my light to the world and help the whole world shine a bit brighter but I am also shy of shining. I think different but I am too shy and scared of being judge for being different that I lock my light in a box in my attic so nobody can see. Standing in a crowd is so popular now-a-days that nobody really ever wants to stand out. I'm sure there will be a time when I do get the chance to take my light out of the box and show the world how bright I can shine and maybe I too can be like the people in the video...