A low blow from the shadow

          The City of Clouds is a city known for winds. The wind is something so remarkable in the region that the days that are not windy are strange, just go out in the open air and the wind will pass in the form of waves that beat and make like swinging clothes. In addition to the atmospheric movement, the city also stands out for its structure, the architecture is promising and expresses a potential urban growth, a small city that looks like a big city. I know that the people of the region are very civilized and maintain well-balanced social standards. Let's say that the ``hand on conscience!`` punctuates the description of the citizens of this incredible locality well.
          The skateboarding scene is very strong and the level of skateboarding, in the national view, is quite accessible there. For many years and the city is very visited, as well as there are many important places of the many professionals who, with the very normality, of general skateboarding, became higher than what is common. Among these skaters and this generation came a remarkable boy who went by the name of Lorenzo. He stands out in particular because he was much more prominent than usual. The meaning'' in relation to an attitude that says a lot about the amount of energy that the normal, much younger, face the value of the word that the skateboard regulates and that the normal. measure difficulties. In short, he will not hold back by stronger logic, not just consuming objects and will consume skateboarding as much. That's because between the championships it would be another problem, competing with him was watching the turn of a sledgehammer scoring each obstacle on the track in a session in first place. Lorenzo was classic in that sense and it was no wonder, the skate routine started from low noon to noon and ended at eleven o'clock at night.
          He would wake up in the morning and go to school with a whole class waiting for Saturday. He would go back to his parents' electronics lunch, where it was a store. The store is located a few blocks from the Clouds skate park, he would often tell his mother that he would have some school commitment, take his skateboard and leave, he would go straight to the rink right after lunch. And he walked under the sun all day, so much so that soon he who came down from Europe was always charred by the sun. Lorenzo started skating in childhood and throughout his adolescence, both lived and played on Board. At 18, he had nothing more than a store sponsorship, something common when the skater is a sporting showcase in the region: the one who walks the most and stands out the most ends up wearing the store's products, and then fame itself promotes the sale of skate. Come on, when it's a lot and if you're doing a lot, receiving an incentive allows you to project even more as a competence, while giving incentives of commercial prestige, seeing the skater you remember the store, and thus starting to want the nice shapes from April that just came out, the Primitive T-shirts and the Cool Bones by Future. Marketing works like the stars also work as parts of the same image, the relationship that needs rotation.

          In the grandiose dream, sport is normal, from the dream of the luxury of professional players and the something high, from dreams of professional players who aim for the highs. Football professionals are examples of sports celebrities who enjoy real fortunes. And this dream exists in athletics, volleyball, martial arts, swimming, surfing, running, biking, among many other sports, and in turn skateboarding.
          Imagine that you are going to participate in an important Nike championship, there are 100 skaters for 3 places, and then the whole event happens. That day you woke up and had the coffee of your life, the sun seemed to shine and the light was softly touching you, you arrive at the event and participate in the track recognition and the day goes on. Toward the end of your lap, and you'll get to a perfect safety level, and you'll come to a maneuver until you get to perfect safety. So a lucky day adds up to an important day and puts you first. At the time of the podium, the narrator calls you and you go on stage like a stranger in the crowd, and all important people get to know you. So right after the podium a Nike Team Manager comes to you and takes your phone, in order to place Flow in the biggest brand of sports shoes in the world. The years come later with way more sneakers than you're able to afford and you feel like you're living a dream. Here's the perfect solution to any problem in life and that is sports fuel.
          This dream comes true for some for real, of course, on the other hand thousands and thousands of skaters leave heartbroken. It is important, after all, the dream is the part of the sport that makes the athlete try to reach something very far away, giving much more energy than he would give in simple.
          It takes you to dream, to be like the ``Horizon!`` even if it is just a margin.

          When he doesn't run away to skate, Lorenzo worked at his parents' store during the day and at night he went to the Faculty of Gastronomy. Many of the classes are in the kitchen and the course teaches the various cuisines such as Fast Food, Finger Food, Slow Food, Japan Food, Italian Food, as well as, Sweet and Savory Confectionery, Bakery and Pasta in general. In addition to the abundant practical classes, the course also has theoretical classes that teach gastronomic management, which would be a model of conventional business administration, focused on the food industry. First of all, it is necessary to understand that the food sector represents a succulent financial fillet within a sandwiched total GDP of R$922.6 billion (2020. Abia). The administrative study with a gastronomic focus explores something inevitable and perhaps someone will say that this specificity does not address the general picture and that is playing low, although management demands prestige and therefore has its way of walking. The study begins with the physical company having formality in stock, purchases, finances, sales and employability with all administrative documental meticulousness. Where it is necessary to understand that each sector has its own operating model and, above all, its own and fundamental logics.
          There are, in total and specific kitchens, studies on gastronomy equipment such as ovens, deep freezers, kneader, cylinder, plate, meat grinder, food processor, vacuum sealer, instruments, cutlery and sizes, plates and materials, cups and formats, drinks and occasions, etc.
          It was a quiet time when I did my chores, attended classes, smoked a cigarette, worked at the restaurant, already had my own car and skated in my spare time.

          The protagonist of the story was smoking cigarettes in a time that was more socially accepted. A Philip Morris cigarette pack cost R$4.50 and didn't seem exorbitant. Going back further in time, we have that the first peoples already came up with tobacco and let's say that cigarettes have always existed. In the 20th century it was accepted so opening a cigarette bag and smoking on an airplane was not prohibited. So people smoked inside movie theaters, in elevators, in restaurants and even in hospitals.
          If, on the one hand, there were no warnings and disincentives such as awareness of sickening effects, on the other hand, the influence and stimulus to consumption was very effective: Formula 1 races were sponsored by Philip Morris and Ferrari was red and owned the marketing from Marlboro. And that commercial influence makes you see a guy get off a Marlboro Ferrari and walk up to the podium like the champion. Seeing someone who has what you want to light a cigarette is a very influential thing. Realize that cigarette companies were commercially geniuses at Marketing. This is still the model for commercials today and there is no better idea. Marlboro's proprietary brand is among the 100 most valuable companies in the world.
          Both common permissiveness and commercial influence were levers that pushed people to smoke. It is known today that it is an addictive and disease-causing product. There were, therefore, policies that set laws on all tobacco products, rules in which factors made it very difficult to find the appropriate climate and place, which prevented orthodox smokers from maintaining the routine. Soon all commercials were banned, smoking was prohibited indoors, and purchases can be made with the box containing the warning: this product causes cancer.
          The increase in the price of the product was due to a policy of high taxation on cigarettes, supported by the logic that all tax revenue on purchases would be invested in health in order to compensate for the harm caused by smoking. Note that buying and finding a place, among other factors, made consumption difficult, measures that are in the decade that relates the turn of the XX century to the XXI century.

          Everything was going well on the surface, everything was fine at work, the college I was attending was quite peaceful between circumstances, the love life was also at peace. About skateboarding, he lived in a time where experience is very present and a skateboarding session is intensely fluid. When you're starting to skate, every session asks you to learn something. When you've been on the Board for a few years, the session allows you to have a lot of fun going around and around with maneuvers you have at the base. The memory you have is that he used to go to the runway just to fly. Pass Nollie's funbox and Back Board down the railing.
          Although it all seemed really bland. Then, in a symbolic and decisive moment, he opened the cigarette box, lit one and began to reflect that, over all the grace in life, he saw himself lacking in common values ​​and that what had real value would be another. Thing he needed to find. People crave objects that don't say anything, so car A has more morals than car B and eventually his life will get better if he has car D, while he was thinking ''I can skate'', it seems there's something wrong with these values. People crave elegant clothes in high-end restaurants, ''and what does it matter? If I'm happy enough with X Burguer and friends''. Life will require you to follow the paths that everyone has followed so far, as well as a job that requires a dress shirt and a house in order to intermediate your time with obligations, ''If obligations are options, I can choose something that makes me happier than this end of career''. It was then that he intimately realized that he did not want to follow the social path that was imposed on him, and that if he himself was following this path without realizing it, then he needed to leave, to abandon each of the subjective obligations of life: to let go of the work, leave the girlfriend, leave the studies, leave the family room. He thought that ''To go down the road of life, where there are things far more valuable than gold. For him, life could offer what he can't find here. So he planned a trip, and there would be no turning back.
          He would go on an endless journey in search of ''Fullness!'' Of far more important value than gold.

          It is understandable that such ideas pass through a young person's mind. It must be terrible that his thoughts don't allow him materialism. About these values ​​you want to look, where exactly are they? How much exactly are they worth? We may be talking about values ​​that are too simple, like enjoying the sunset with pleasure. Or we can talk about deeper values: a book is a work where all the information contained in it requires a lot of brain effort, in this sense the more you read the more the brain works and so this exercise makes the brain's electricity flowing so well that the intelligence of the brain works. Human has a lot of potential. The illustrious thought of the Cartesian image presents an existential dualism where the body would be the material part and the mind the immaterial part. So spiritual and values ​​like intelligence, knowledge, love, are not atomic compounds and are not found like objects, because banknotes and gold are material and when you disown them you will look for something that has spiritual value and you will not find it. You will be in search of what you will not be able to see, you will not be able to touch, you will not be able to reach that and you will be on an eternal search.
          The information is profound, and I need you to understand that reaching that bottom takes a lot of effort of the mind. Without doubting your ability to understand, here goes:
          When looking at a painting by Leonardo da Vinci, the information and energies that the painting contains demand that you look at it for a while.

Leonardo da Vinci painted this theme for Louis XII between 1506 and 1513. Salvator Mundi holding Globus Cruciger, which would be the savior Jesus Christ holding the globe that represents the world. This work disappeared for some time, although Marquis Ganay claimed in 1911 that he had the original.

          I need you to understand that if a cup of steaming coffee is painted with paint on a painting and when looking at the picture your mind tastes the coffee, the artist has therefore managed to put energy into the painting. About this immateriality of photons and their ability to perceive the plane, understand that if a painting tastes like coffee to your mind, then it has value and power. Therefore, the scope of these values ​​​​are not like simple objects and are not palpable, so the condition of dissatisfaction with what is around makes sense, and that spark deep in the consciousness that knows that there is something else wants to ignite without finding content. In other words, intelligence would be the most valuable thing in the terrestrial sphere, and to portray this value, understand the metaphor that ''intelligence is gold''. The moment you question everything around you, after all, everything shines with some desire and every achievement comes in disappointment, you will go in search of something more valuable and the image of this treasure will not solidify into anything. And no matter how hard you try, you can't imagine a treasure that will be worth more than cars and material mansions. Fact is that the gold is inside the books. And without knowing it you will consume yourself looking for it in the streets, not knowing that the people with the greatest fortunes hide their gold in the books. Because through the streets you will materially look for something you won't find, daily voids to the infinity of your days in an endless search, and I know that all the special depth of the bottom of your heart will refuse to enter a museum.

          He knew the craft vendors and went to the square to unwind, greeted the artisans and sat down among them, many of whom were of the Rastafarian religion. Exchanging ideas and words, he asked to learn a little and so they taught him a little about work techniques and also about the culture. The daily life of the artisans was from praxis to very simple, they worked during the day and many of the nights they performed their sacraments and stayed having a beer with friends. They made use of marijuana which is for the Rastafarian vision preceded in Genesis 1:29: ''And God said, I give to you every plant that grows on the surface of all the earth and bears seed, and every fruit tree that bears seeds.'' Before leaving on a trip, Lorenzo participated a few times in the routine of that group in order to get rid of everything that is bureaucratic, in order to find true values, after all these values ​​exist and need to be found.
          A few days later he took to the road with his old goal, some crafts to sell, a Marlboro wallet, a backpack of clothes, a 1.5l water bottle, two pairs of sneakers, skateboard, money and cell phone heading to the horizon without end definition. (The movie Cheech & Chong is the perfect portrayal of this headless journey that is so striking because of the wave of pleasures that the smoke causes, the randomness of events and the detachment of common patterns.) Leaving the city of Clouds managed to do it. touring Brazil, stopping in the capitals, working in the squares and meeting people and places, living experiences that were worth more to him than any other routine. He worked during the day, smoked cigarettes in his spare time, kept in touch with his family by phone. He also kept skateboarding, although a ride was now very little effort and for about 1h, eventually the fun of skateboarding was fading, taking an air and a step didn't cause any internal fervor and after all the new friends he found on the journeys were worth it. much of your time.

          Come on, in real life the word ''cost'' means: all the money that has to be spent. From the minimum wage of 1200R$, the lowest existential costs are approximately 900R$. It is understandable that when you leave your parents' room, your income from the starting point is quite close to the cost of your needs, which is not so scary and it is natural, you realize that in this calculation there is a little left over.
          If you haven't paid for your own toilet paper yet, it may seem strange, the fact is that when you get into this condition of self-sufficiency, life has an exactitude where you don't cry for more or less. So when you eat a piece of bread, ''1.00R$'' automatically crosses your mind, which is perfectly normal, this responsibility has always existed and realizing it depends on how much you feel of the capital control of your own life. At minimum wage, you have the bare minimum to deal with these costs, although being employed means earning a small portion of the company's profits, which also allows you to observe the general functioning of the board, and recognize yourself as one of the pieces. ''Understanding how the big picture works'' is the lesson to be learned, the theoretical and practical mission of a humanoid life, the question is: are you going to be a waiter forever or are you going to learn to set up a restaurant? This is how new generations of entrepreneurs are born, and that's all.
          The fact is that, in the midst of the administrative system, cigarettes are a hindrance to financial accounting thinking. It is a very expensive product and takes a long time to achieve the death result. Nicotine ignites areas of the brain associated with reward, thus factually becoming an addiction. These conditions ask that you spend daily on something that harms you. Soon the cigarette between the bills represents a problem. Let's face it, sustaining this lifestyle with crafts is a very intense daily sacrifice and eventually takes a considerable portion of your time and money. From the old goal with very high costs the whole thing becomes financially unsustainable.
          Now let's add the problems from changing the brand of cigarette. Cigarette is carcinogenic and kills. You will find that people who have smoked all their lives have reached the age of 60 to 70 years have gone through cancer and died. Do you see how smoking your whole life comes to an end dated by cigarettes? The truth is that as the box gets more expensive, people opt for cheaper and worse quality brands, these cigarettes look like bland straws and people smoke double, the sickening pace accelerates and cigarette smoking becomes a problem with no way out. In metaphorical summary the bills and the cigarette can be a snowball.

          In his many travels he visited many places and talked to thousands of people. He was accompanied by desire thirsting for unseen riches. He had no intention of returning home, and like an old cat would not, for nothing, for nothing. In this story the years went by and in a usual concept what you do will shape you, and many years later he had long dreadlocks where each braid symbolized a part of his body such as the heart or the spirit and gained a marked tonality. by the sun, in addition to a way of acting characteristic of the environments in which they usually inhabit.
          Soon he was skateboarding at a much higher level than usual, and that even if he didn't touch the stars of fame, he could enjoy the waves of a normal life. The meaning of skateboarding was lost, as the tasks demanded of him a determination that made it difficult to practice sports, he gradually diminished the importance of skateboarding. After all, for skateboarding of respectable skill level, a dedication of priority is required, which is humanly acceptable considering that the sport develops manual dexterity, and this characteristic of animals is refined in the human who, in the face of life, expresses himself with valuable resourcefulness. Books exercise the mind, the mind controls the body in relation to material space, the exercise of the body is health in itself, and work is social support based on a social function in a blessed system.
          When the guy stops playing sports, it means he stopped maintaining his own health, which is putting himself in order to rust. - And if for Lorenzo skateboarding was left behind and cigarettes remained a dead-end priority, then realize that intimate conceptions define their own segments, and so he consciously chooses to subtract what is good for him and preserve what causes self-destruction. Noticing that he makes bad decisions, I realize that the longer I live, the more life shows that I'm an old man who doesn't seem to know things. - And the skateboard was left behind by Lorenzo who is still looking for that. If you see it today, you won't be able to see the brilliance of the original and none of the potential of what it was.