Tonight is second to last night in Barca as we leave for Venice, Italy tomorrow. Its so weird to think that as my adventures abroad are ending, for so many its just beginning. So for Katherine, Sol, Paige, and iFran (and anyone Im forgetting) i give you this word of advice:
“All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” - Paul Fussell
Compliments of travelquotes.com
Its actually not important what the quote means. Quotes are just fancy ways of saying things we already know anyways. As a matter of fact i just googled "travel quotes" and that one looked long (thus good) but not too long (thus not too boring, because, well, it still is boring). Anyways, what i want to say is that Im excited for you guys. You have no idea how much! So heres a more applicable quote,
"I so excited for you guys!"
-Max
Traveling allows you to think of things, wonderful and fascinating things that you may not have ever thought of before or without such circumstances. For example, yesterday on the metro i was looking at Cody's arm hair and i thought,
What if my mutant super power was the ability to control hair. Like Magneto (the villain in X-Men) who has the ability to control metal, but instead, hair. In one part of the first X-Men movie, Magneto bends Wolverine's skeleton (Wolverine has a skeleton made entirely of metal - he is pretty much indestructible. He's the one with the claws(see figure 1). Also, he can regenerate and heal himself). This of course causes him excruciating pain and renders him incapable of movement. So, what if i could i pull all of one's arm hair out with my mind. Or pull one's hair just enough to hurt them so they would be rendered incapable of movement like Magneto did to Wolverine. Imagine all of your hair on your body getting pulled out all at once. But then again once i made the X-Men team i don't know if anyone would take me too seriously. "oh, there's max with his mediocre mutant powers," they would say, "Cyclopes, cover for him will ya?" and then Cyclopes would have to make sure i didn't get hurt and probably be responsible for causing real damage to the enemy.
But if i did have the power to control hair i could help a lot people. like alex.
I did actually find a good quote on travelquotes,
“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” - Moorish proverb
But see, you already knew that too. Seek after those people whether its to meet new people and make new friends, or just to meet new people and realize again and again how great of friends you already have.
Sol, Paige, Katherine, Anna, Zach: Barca was incredible with you guys. There's nothing like 10 people in The Pug all at once. Everyone else, be jealous - i would be. Beckham, Im counting the days. Matt and Kelly, i will see you so soon. Courtney, remember to clear your schedule for July 3rd, Im making a stop in "God's Country." I love you all very much. Blogger is sucking it up - i'll upload figure 1 later.
Fondly,
Max Su '10
"Díme"
1 comment:
max...i'll already be gone. I leave on the 1st! nooooooo.
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