Feb 19 2009
RUN AWAY BRAIN
As a foreigner there is something that I see in first world countries such as U.S.A. and Europe and is the promise that those countries make to smart and artistic people to emigrate there no matter what. Is something weird because many smart people go away from their home countries to seek for better opportunities and they don’t care if they have to work… Ok I don’t any example but those people don’t care if they have to do the dirtiest jobs, if that means a better future.
I remember that in Colombia many smart or artistic people are underappreciated, artist in general, is not the best country to become a professional artist as people don’t appreciate art at all, I guess as an aspiring writer and comic book writer if I stayed in Colombia I couldn’t achieve my dream or start fighting for it, is really difficult but when I emigrated my panorama changed really drastically, even right now my original desires have changed a little bit and now my hope is to become a teacher a Language Teacher, but that doesn’t mean that I won’t give up my dream of becoming an author; even, I have rediscovered my passion of acting and photographing.
I guess many third world countries don’t appreciate the intellectuals they have and what they can give to the community, which is something sad to see all these brains on the run, on the run from what could be better scenery.
