For a time I wanted everything, answers to everything, about the supernatural, about how a better world could exist, I wanted answers from all possible latitudes, I felt identified with that phrase by Jack Kerouak written in his book On the Road:
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!' "
Jack Kerouac from his autobiographical novel "On The Road".
And with the search for the protagonist of El Perfume de Patrick Süskind, I was looking for the same thing, something that is essentially everything. I read about religions, cultures, politics, philosophy, literature, I trained martial arts, I did many other things and I read so much more, and what do you think? I discovered my perfume in engineering.
Engineering is like the essence of everything, it is as if humanity will implement all its knowledge when trying to solve a problem, engineering is the art and technique of using scientific knowledge to develop tools that solve problems in society and this is as if humanity would invest everything in solving a problem by creating a work of engineering that for me can become a work of art created with circuits and computer code. The economy, religion, security, the entire society goes through a change as technological development advances, reality is distorted when paradigms change, some concepts change, human behavior also, although new problems created by the impact also emerge. of technology in society, but something is certain, the world is no longer the same after an engineer makes a creation.
I want to understand everything, have the information of everything stored, I want to change the world and reveal the existence of a supernatural world, I want to defeat death, I want everything and I want it packaged in a single thing, what I want is called engineering.
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