As a young boy, I was the
last person anyone would think to be adventurous. A nerd-to-be, I was even
scared to cross the street…
But situations helped to
open something in the soul. First, due to a lack of finances, I had to go
walking to school every day. It was about half an hour, a long time for a
little boy, and that time helped me to develop some physical resilience and even
mental as at some point, I was attacked on my way back, which was during the
night… Nothing bad happened, but I developed some sense of how to deal with the
world around me without running away or isolating myself.
Years later, because I wanted
an education my family would not provide, I’ve enrolled into a military school.
Those three years at the Air Force were a big adventure and they opened my
taste for the different and the risk.
My first life outside my
birthplace, Brazil, was in Chile. Learning Spanish was very complicated and
getting a job without speaking the local language, at a time when Portuguese
was not a fashion as it is today in Latin America… The only position I got was
as a salesman, but I was such a bad salesman that I ended being the boss.
That is the reward of
risking and the adventure: you learn,
a lot. It is much more valuable than any course or anything other people may
formally teach you, because you are embedded in the environment like a weird rock
at a beach, being molded by others and circumstances.
Every time there is a
challenge, I know it is an opportunity to experience something that is there,
just waiting for me…
Come on; let’s embrace
our next adventure together!
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