Akultura

Well, my real name is the same of one of the biggest American writers in history. Unlike his marvelous oeuvre, for instance The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym or The Raven, I haven’t even a mere diary. Like him, journalism has been part of my professional life but, to be honest, my stories have almost been tedious and soporific.I come from a country where surrealism is everywhere. I think that makes it curious but delightful, complicated but surprising, unpredictable but vivid. If you have listened to talk about Machupicchu or The land of The Incas, so, you’ve got it. I am from Peru but you should know that beautiful landscapes and lovely traditional food are as important as Peru’s 5000-year cultural heritage.I always wanted to be a sport-journalist although I don’t like sports so much. Well,I have always reckoned that it had let me travel very much covering games, events and sorts like these. Nevertheless, I have been involved in current-affairs news since I started as a reporter at a local radio station in Lima when I was 17 years old (later, I jumped to some radio and TV stations always as a reporter). In Latin-America, current affairs must be inferred as covering topics such as corruption, terrorism, political persecution, coups, social crisis, the mafia, crime and so on. I have no regrets. It has been an instructive experience. So, by inertia, I became interested in politics and social topics.Everyone has their Stone Age. I had one. Once I hold quixotic dreams about a better world perhaps because I was influenced by nostalgic ideas and dreamers. The good thing was that that motivated me to go back to the class and obtain my second bachelor degree, one in Sociology at San Marcos Mayor Public State University in Lima. Certainly, I wanted to know about the “rules” that govern the world but I was a bit naïve. There are no “rules”; the world is a complete pandemonium. Nevertheless, the dreams haven’t disappeared. They have just become mellowed. I have a pretty basic outlook on life which I sum up in this old Chinese proverb: “If you have a problem and it has not a solution, why are you worried about?. If you have a problem and it has a solution, so why are you worried about?”. I believe that explore, discover and experience are the three imperatives in life in order to know about ourselves and they imply that we should be willing to drink from every glass and cross all the possible frontiers.Well, I think I have to stop writing. Anyway, thanks for being part of this little adventure by reading it. Don't forget that "A journey of thounsand miles begins with a single step".RegardsAkultura.