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glimpse: ORCHESTRATED CHAOS
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latest glimpses
one photo, one text
a world, a pen, a camera


In the end, the journey wasn't all that much about traveling.
My soles brought me places, but immersion taught me places, taught me people and lives.
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As months became years and then yesteryears, the initial journey became a nomadic lifestyle.
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Why let any guidebook, travel blog or superficial advice shrink your leaps of discovery to baby steps in their footprints?
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glimpses
Miles astray the tourist highway the beauty didn't vanish. And beyond beauty there was something raw and real behind those easy facades – challenging discoveries, unsung heroes and cultural normalities that were ever new, different and hypnotizing.
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selected places / stories
There was a diverse complexity and a unifying simplicity at the heart of the human condition. Lives differed vastly from one place to another, but the more so within one nation, region or group. Everywhere one can find the same distinctions: optimists and pessimists, introverts and extroverts, folks lending hands and those using elbows, dreamers and doers, dreaming doers. These conspicuous similarities, our universal differences, unite us as one species of monkey merely disguised in a human wardrobe. In the same breath, our distinct experiences assemble unique minds, feelings and memories - our very own worlds.
"Are the people who live there unhappy with their situation,” I asked upon looking down from the futuristic gondola onto a mishmash of sheet metal and dirt roads. "Why? They have a roof and something to eat. It suffices them,” were the kid's exact words.
It's not so much the place itself that becomes a love affair to one or a footnote to another. It's your experience there, the people you share it with, the little coincidences, which ultimately write a narrative you merely co-author.
But, as much as I believe that happiness is an individual pursuit, social ties seem like the one universal remedy for most worries in the world.
