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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
Save the world.
ABOUT ME
I am the result of billions of years of evolution (ok, you too, but we are talking about me here).
PHILOSOPHY
You only live once. But once is enough, if you do it right.
Interests
I like pretty women.
- fish
- walking
- fishing
- scuba diving
- beaches
Music, Movies, and Books
I LOVE books, all of them! (except self-help books) My list of books is too big for this, but I love Nabokov, Palahniuk, Robert Greene, Borges, Douglas Adams, Huxley, William Gibson, Vonnegut, Hesse, Tolkien, Stanislaw Lem, Yoshikawa, Shakespeare, Bradbury, Ibargüengoitia, Matheson, Clarke, etc.
If I surf with you I will probably ask you to take me to a bookstore.
I also like movies, but not the crap that shows up in the teathers now.
My music of choice is everything fast and exciting, like rock and metal.
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
I remember one time when I was alone in a beach. It was very early in the morning and I don't remember how I got there or why I was supposed to be there. I started walking in the shore to focus my thoughts, feeling the sand in my feet and the cold air of the sea in my skin.
Then I felt something else. Something slippery. I looked down and saw that I was standing on a fish.
Luckily I didn't crush it with my feet, but it was already dying. The water and the life in its body were going away very fast.
I decided that this would not happen. I decided to save it's life. Maybe it was silly, but I wanted to make a difference for that little fish, I wanted it to continue living.
I kneeled down and (somehow) took the slippery little fish in my hands. I looked at the half burning circle that was now the sun in the horizon.
I threw the little fish to the sea. I threw it with all my strength, hoping it would be enough to save its little, slippery life.
Then, as soon as it touched the water. I saw a pelican diving into the sea, to the same spot where the fish touched the water.
That was it, the fish was dead. My attempt to same it's life was useless.
Was my little fish destined to die there and then? Did I make any difference? I don't know, but I still keep thinking about it, and what it means.
Countries I’ve Visited
Mexico, United States
Countries I’ve Lived In
Mexico