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Overview

  • 22 references 12 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning French, German, Italian, Spanish, Thai
  • 32, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • CRM Consultant
  • Travel/USC
  • From Santa Ana, CA, USA
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Reach the confines of my limits. To experience new ways of looking at the world.

ABOUT ME

I am a chaotic and joyful mix of things. I love change and travel to free myself from routine. I prefer living on the edge of comfortability but I sometimes forget and get too steady. I enjoy the company of a few people close friends and discovering people that are raw truth tellers. I want to make this world a better place though I don't dare to change it. I want to understand people deeply. I gave up looking for truth because it's fucking everywhere and now I am just looking to experience beauty.

I like to walk around smiling. I am trying to be less judgmental and accept the world as it is.

If something makes me feel nervous, the universe is telling me to go and do it. When I don't know how to do something, I go and learn it.

I reflect a lot, I am learning to live as myself by destroying my ego. I am reaching deep within to pull my whole spirit out for the world to see.

I like to consider myself a little kid still. Kids are awesome. One day I aspire to be a kid with a killer job that makes peoples' lives better.

PHILOSOPHY

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain

Execute on your dreams. Today. Right f**ing now.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I stayed in Buenos Aires, one of the best CS communities in the world, I also stayed in various places across Europe, In LA my family has hosted several CSers at our home. I made best friends with CSers in NYC. Now I hope to land on some couches in Berlin.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Things that I learned from the couchsurfers I've met.

Pablo- To believe that change is possible, that change begins within, and that my economic system isn't as great as I previously thought.

Shivam Dhawan- That my name is a vulgar thing in Hindi. That he is "Jhakaas" and that to create something, like a website, you need passion and determination.

Masimo- "The kingdom of heaven is within", "You fail because you don't believe", and "You must unlearn what you have learned." For me he was a wonderful spiritual guide in the perfect moment I needed him.

Denise- To believe in myself as a wonderful person. To dance however I want (or can) and to love life because there are other people out there that love it as much as we do.

Interests

Learning, climbing, talking, philosophizing, drawing, painting, running, dreaming, meditating, sleeping, swimming, the unknown, history, science, math, laughing, cooking, exploring, Jazz music and more.

  • beauty
  • dancing
  • cooking
  • running
  • traveling
  • painting
  • drawing
  • music
  • jazz
  • sailing
  • rock climbing
  • swimming
  • history
  • mathematics
  • science
  • tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

Movie: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Clint Eastwood, Stranger than Fiction
Books: Mark Twain, Italian Dictionary, Religious Holy books
Music: Damu the Fudgemonk, Flying Lotus, Ray Charles

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Cala Golorizte
11 months in Sardegna
2 months in Buenos Aires
Chilao campgrounds in Angeles National Forest

Teach, Learn, Share

Learn- I want to know more about the life you live and the way you look at the world around you. I want to know what you think people should know but don't often understand. I want to feel what you really believe.

Teach- I can offer my own experiences as an example of what I believe this world is. I can also help you travel wherever I have been before and I know a few specific skills that might be of interest to you.

Share - Sharing is caring?

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Mexico, Thailand, United States

Old School Badges

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