Watched The Motorcycle Diaries last night...

I'm not a biker, or a man or an Argentinian and there was very little I thought that I'd be able to relate with in the movie. However, it was completely unlike I thought
Its exactly the kind of movie that makes you feel terrible about watching a movie when u'd rather be out there doing what they're doing. Travelling across borders, meeting different people, talking to them about their problems and realising that your own problems are as significant as a flame next to a forest fire...
The movie is based on the bike travels of Che Guevara and his companion Alberto Granado, the Marxist revelutionary, author of many books on guerrila warfare and an icon of the socialist revolutionary movements much before he was summarily executed at the age of 39.
I unfortunately, am ashamed to say that I knew nothing of this man as I watched the movie, it was only later, when I went to Wikipedia to look up the cute guy who played Guevara (erhm.. we'll talk about that later) that I came across this brilliant picture of Ernesto Che Guevara. Extremely familiar, not just because of the fact it had been used in ads across the globe (something I like to keep a track of) but also because its very difficult to forget such an image. It is the picture of someone who is looking ahead even as others are looking at him. He's a revolutionary and there is a sense of mission that possesses his appearance.
Maybe I'm blabbering, but then its my blog, thats the least I owe to it! ;)
Anyway, to begin with, the movie was visually stunning. It was a journey across the cold Atacama desert, the dusty plains of Argentinia and the meandering roads of Chile.
However more than that, what strikes you is the distance between how much the haves have and how little the have-nots get a chance to move towards the better.
Anyway, the movie was a great eye opener of sorts. Guevara moved out for a trip that turned out to be the biggest learning experience of his life. Maybe that's something we all need to do. Maybe we need to look at thinking about what we want to do before just making the decisions of our life. We just keep jumping into one thing from the other. From school to college then onto the job, we dont give a thought about what it is that we really want to do.

Maybe we should take a break, take a ride, meet someone we'd wouldve never met otherwise, maybe we should talk less and think more, walk till our feet our sore, maybe we should listen for what they didnt say and try not to answer every question that comes our way..

That way probably we'd be able to know more about ourselves and see where in life we'd be happiest...