Friday, December 28, 2007

Before departure

I am currently sitting in my bedroom at my parents house in Essendon, Melbourne, quietly packing and preparing to depart for Mumbai India. I was going to use a new travel blog for this forum, but didn't like the look of the "Travel blog" website. Too many stooge backpackers and the like. Then i thought i'd just stick to my old blog address. I know how it works. It looks nice (i think so). But it is full of old stuff. Musings on previous projects and ideas. Seemed a bit weird to go dragging that old chest of records across the globe. Maybe it'd be a good thing... but then they offered me a new blog with the same old account, and that seemed a good way to go. New entries, new places, new experiences, not suspended within, but somehow connected to, the past.

So i'm sitting here avoiding the inevitable, fumbling about with words trying to find the right way to say thank you or i'll miss you or good bye or something else like that. I guess i might just scribble down a quote, like so many sell outs before, which kind of embodies why i am going away in the first place:

"For Believe me! - the secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as long as you cannot be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge! . . ."
Friedrich Nietzsche

Of course, the bravado of employing such a voice as Nietzsche's to justify or contain why one does what one does will probably reveal itself as pretension and pomp shortly after i lose my shit in a strange and terrifying country. I look forward to writing to and hearing from all of you. Take care. With Love

Benjamin Woods
29-12-2007