The Soccer War Blog # 6

A World to Discover

During summer vacations, I had the opportunity of being in a magical place in the north of Colombia; La Guajira. When I reached this place I realized that I had been missing out of such beautiful places. This was because I had a routine where I had forgotten there is a world outside for us to discover.
Throughout the years, the ideas and facts about technology, new ways of thinking and the everyday life in an office or in a city have become ver popular. This, has made people to start to depend on technology and to have an every day routine and forget that there is a world outside needed to be discovered. When I talk about discovered, I do not refer to it as for the people to be the first to find, learn or explore, but for the people to discover as for the first time in one's experience. People who never get out of their homes and offices who depend on the internet or on T.V's are missing out of tons of things that happen all around the world.
In The Soccer War, Kapuscinski lets us know that he wants to discover the world, that he is against of offices, routine and furniture. "Furniture divides man from man; people cower behind furniture like birds into holes...While many whole categories of furniture may be man's serviceable insturmnets, his slaves, in the case of a desk a contrary relationship obtains: man is its instrument, its slave...Once plunked down behind one a man will never learn to tear himself free."Pg. 146. When Kapuscinski arrives to Poland he is put behind a desk to do wrk but after a few days he is desperate and wants to go out to find the world he has not discovered, the world he has not written about. Because of this he goes to South America, Chile and finds how different culture is.