Kim, page-bound
About Me
When my plane touched down on the runway in Mexico City, I was writing in my notebook, trying to keep the pen moving in spite of all the forces of inertia that were moving my pen away from the paper and pushing my letters out of formation.
The last words that I wrote in that journal entry were “I think I’ll be happy here.”
I guess this offers a peek into a few things about me – I just moved to Mexico, I like to write, even in inconvenient situations, and I’m optimistic about my new life here. Incidentally, I’m also terrified of being kidnapped and my eyes sting and my lungs feel heavy from the pollution, and I occasionally drink coffee at dinner and stay up until 3 am, doing things like writing this paragraph.
Right now, I guess I would say my life is defined by flux – I am getting to know a new place with a mixture of enthusiasm and skepticism, and I’m practicing Spanish to my heart’s content, much of which consists of watching the Mexican equivalent of Nickelodeon.
So I would like to say that after a long journey, I’ve just landed in a spot that I feel comfortable with and which coincides with all my goals, and it’s taken a long time to find that. I think of the Episteme project as a way to collect all the ideas and the impressions that I’ve had over the past ten years (it’s a long time, but that’s when I started college!!) so that I can take a look back and ponder who I am, who other people are, and what we’re doing here. I hope that a side effect of it will be to help solidify who I am and how I want to live.
I know that I need all the best ideas in the world to help me with that, so that I can ultimately go beyond them and do my own thing, create my own paradigm of being, which will be completely original, wild, crazy, never seen before, and all for the good. It will be a recipe for the next segment of my life, and it will allow for improvisation but will set the tone for the times to come.