Travel and Second Citizenship Plans

I recently renewed my passport and I'm glad to know that our ever sucky passport is now valid for 10 years. Big deal yeah, it means I have 10 more years ahead of me somewhere in this world. A bitter nostalgia suddenly hit me as I looked at my tattered passport that had gone through a lot of trouble at the international borders, oh good times! I'm so grateful that the border police didn't shoot me, the smile works everytime hey! I also felt a tinge of regret knowing that I might not be able to travel in the next few years. As I get older, I realized that my financial stability comes first.

Some countries I still would like to visit in the future though, Fiji, Mongolia and French Polynesia. And of course, the countries in the big continent of Africa. I'm a bit ignorant of this continent so sorry about that! I just want to get out of that typical cheapskate travelers' route if possible and be able to afford solitude and enjoyment. I want to be able to move swiftly anywhere in this world even if it means going through hoops again to acquire that kind of travel privilege. It is hard not getting something out of thin air or out of pure dumb luck, but I must admit bitterly, that it does suck sometimes.

Well, the good thing about getting older and less dumb is that you couldn't care less about what other people say. During my travels, I admit that I had almost gone through all the possible ways to achieve that kind of travel freedom, including but not limited to: bribing a friend, staying in a country for too long, buying someone, making friends with the immigration officer, illegally working and all that creative/diabolic things you can imagine. Don't worry, no animals were harmed during those failed attempts. I have been joking with some friends about the deal we can make in order for me to get that second citizenship. My female friend's male friend, after realizing that I would pay for him to marry me, started sending me messages on how he really liked to live with me and how our life would be like together. So I learned the excitement of these guys thinking that we would really live happily ever after. Now I learned that I might just aim to have tons of money and buy citizenship, instead of buying someone's heart because it is downright unethical... isn't it?

Deep down, I have already come to terms with not having a partner in crime for life, not that I'm heartless. I just can't find someone that I can really like or who could adapt to my diabolical mentality and lifestyle. Or maybe the feeling is mutual, but I understand the positive and negative repercussions of having a ruler in life. I'm just too all over the place, literally. I'm crazy, selfish, childish, and impulsive. Hell, it runs in the family. My mum never remarried. My sister is just like me. My uncles and aunt are childless and have never thought of marriage. I mean, they are all good-looking, strange, dysfunctional and all that, but life just does not permit them to have that kind of big responsibility. Let's face it, life is hard down here. I'm proud of my own Addams family's capacity to ignore the need for affection. I might even follow their diabolic footsteps, but who knows?

So with all that singleton justification, I might just spend my remaining years here on earth doing what I love, like living anywhere, diving, doing some sports and exploring the unknown. However, I still want to come back to a place I can call home but first, I want to make sure that I'm not totally bound to a state, not that I want to sound criminally insane. Never underestimate a state's immense capacity to totally fuck you up. So what's the deal with having a second citizenship anyway? It's not only for acquiring travel privileges, it's also for diversification. To diversify your assets and free yourself from the stranglehold of all these ridiculous rules and the effects of the seriously flawed system. For instance, is it now illegal to be homeless where you are? Good, then you can be homeless somewhere else.

I know I might not make sense to most of you, but if you see beyond the moment, you'll realize that this is a dying world. With all the hatred everywhere, people killing each other, deteriorating health of human beings, rampant homelessness and environmental destruction, this is the apocalypse now. But amidst of all the chaos, I would still like to have the freedom to selfishly enjoy my relatively short life and see the remaining beauty of mother nature. I might not be able to volunteer to migrate to another planet to start all over with the green people, but I just want to say that, I had a good life here on earth.