This book intends to be as diverse and, at the same time, as peculiar as the Europes and peoples of the world.
You should not expect to find great stories of adventures about personal experiences, though there may be some; nor look for a great essay, since I am not an academician.
My foremost intention is to provide small examples that will help me to show a vision in perspective regarding the present situation of the European project, oriented towards the minds of those of us who will be able to do most to lead it to a good destination: the young with the help of their elders. Europes in the world, between the crisis and opportunities of our times.
All the good things coming out the next pages will be indebted to the dialogue and critical curiosity promoted by individual experiences. I have had the fortune to live and know them in the company of other adventurers of the world and thought, whom I have met along the way.
What I expect and wish you to find in these pages is a stimulus that is pleasing, inspiring, annoying, confronting, suggestive, inciting (write here: ___________________)
This writing and its discourse are considered an attempt as any other to communicate (us) and a chance to inspire (us), in the same way I have been inspired by the opportunities the European YOUTH programme framework has offered me; inspired by those historical events which have determined that we, the new generations, are the future for peaceful understanding among peoples. To attain this understanding we need to be international and see the world. The real world of the new EU club countries, after the downfall of some utopias and the proclamation of other ones in their place. The world of dreams and desires of those countries and other ones already inside the system, proud of themselves and full of more conscious, but perhaps more insecure and discontent citizens, in spite of their full bellies.
I expect too much, don’t you think? Keep in mind that this writer is still somewhat young, therefore, he may not be prepared enough. I am conscious that I run the risk of being partial and ignoring or overestimating some of the things discussed here.
As present laws rule, I do not hold myself responsible for my own opinions, and even less for my own nonsense. If you think I am wrong, say so, it is human to make mistakes and, being somewhat young, most convenient.
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The text of this adventure originates from a young vision of life; hard to reflect as it is a vision; blurry to the intellect and sharp to the feelings, of which I hope to inform and be of inspiration throughout my anecdotes, opinions, reports and emotions: excuses as any other ones to facilitate (our) understanding in the emptiness to fill our desires and the noise of our times.
Now that this is said and done, and with the belief that life belongs to those who live it, our adventure begins.