Re: Kill file Fred Bloggs, end the abuse!

From: Roger Johansson (no-email_at_home.se)
Date: 09/05/04 

Date: 5 Sep 2004 19:23:19 GMT

John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandSNIPtechTHISnologyPLEASE.com> wrote:

> Sounds almost compulsive to me; wouldn't leave much time to learn much
> about life. I read fast, maybe 400 wpm, and I sort of wish I didn't; I
> burn through books and authors much too quickly.

I was a super nerd, of course. But I changed my life when I was 15.
I had read "On the road" by Kerouac and I hitchhiked to Paris the summer I was 15.

In those days we had only one, black and white, tv channel, and very little information
about foreign countries, so my school mates could not understand how I dared hitchhike
abroad, without any money and be away for several months.

I had read so much about other countries, and about people in all kinds of situations, so I wasn't afraid.
I knew that people are essentially good and nice all over the world.

>From 15 to 25 years age I was out on the road for more than 50% of the time, in Europe and Asia.

The first time I was in Paris I was the only youngster who slept under the bridges on the left bank,
opposite Notre Dame, together with the clochards.

The next year I met a few other travelling youngsters, the next year even more, and in 1968 we were hundreds of long haired hippies
there on the left river bank. So I saw the hippie culture in Europe grow up from nothing over a few years.

Later I was in Yugoslavia a lot, I liked that country.
Other favorite countries were Turkey, Afganistan, and Germany.

I never had enough money to visit England, and I heard from other hitchhikers that you needed a certain sum of money to get into
Great Britain.

So I have met a lot of people in real life too, beside reading books.
When you have no money you have to talk to people, and many of them invited me to dinner or to sleep over.

Later I had to live from something, while I learned more about everything, and read even more books.
I chose to go to schools to learn things I already knew very good, so I could be free to learn what I wanted.

That is why I went to a chemistry school when I was 17, I already knew a lot about chemistry, so I did not have to work in that
school. Later I chose electronics, because I had learned a lot about that by myself, so I got money for studying (thanks to the
swedish education system) and could do whatever I felt like. 

-- 
Roger J.

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