To Be a Renaissance Man

My mind has been buzzing lately. Important but currently unanswerable questions have been lingering at the edges: What am I going to do for a living? What do I really want to have as my career? Is it time to distance myself from people I don't really like, the wheat from the chaff? Why does it always seem like I don't know anything? The answer to the last one is simple, at least. I don't know anything. There's just too much information in the world. There's so much information, I just want to absorb it.

Not the first time these thoughts have crossed my mind, of course.

More and more I just want to get up and leave - go somewhere I've never been before with no friendly faces to greet me. More and more I don't care about the answers to the career-related questions, they seem so trivial . . . Many people believe in heaven, reincarnation, something that makes it feel like what they're currently doing isn't completely useless in the end-run. I am unfortunately not one of these people, although sometimes I wish I were. From my perspective, I've only got one shot at this whole life thing - I'm not going to come back to Earth to try again or live in a plane where I can do anything my heart desires. I've been contemplating traveling for a while now, seeing what everything in the world is about from my own perspective. I think I'd definitely benefit from traveling, but the costs seem to put me out of range for most of it. I want to know things, mostly for my own personal benefit. I want to learn how to juggle, to understand how to buy an Italian suit, write books, learn how to cook and bake really well, be completely fluent in Spanish, sew clothes and people back together . . . there's just so much to learn.

And that's why I've decided to make this blog a chronicle of my pursuit of knowledge - All I Need to Know. Hopefully in the future these small and random pieces of knowledge will help me answer the large and concrete questions I will eventually have to answer.