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Monday Morning Quotes: A place where, each Monday, I'll bring my favourite quotes to send you a bit of my positivity to start the week on full power! Hope you enjoy it.

Source: Thor Heyerdahl was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in zoology, botany, and geography. He became notable for his Kon-Tiki expedition in 1947, in which he sailed 8,000 km (5,000 mi) across the Pacific Ocean in a hand-built raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands

I remember reading the book Kon-Tiki Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl and thinking that his idea seemed nuts; not his thesis that ancient people could have made long sea voyages, creating contacts between separate cultures; but the way he proved it.

In 1947, Heyerdahl and five fellow adventurers sailed from Peru to the Tuamotu Islands, French Polynesia in a pae-pae raft that they had constructed from balsa wood and other native materials, christened the Kon-Tiki. The Kon-Tiki expedition was inspired by old reports and drawings made by the Spanish Conquistadors of Inca rafts, and by native legends and archaeological evidence suggesting contact between South America and Polynesia. The Kon-Tiki smashed into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotus on August 7, 1947, after a 101-day, 4,300-nautical-mile (5,000-mile or 8,000 km)[11] journey across the Pacific Ocean. Source: Wikipedia

After reading about such journey I couldn't help but think that sailing could, indeed, be done only by following common sense and loads of sailing readings - if the Kon-Tiki didn't kill them, a good sailboat will not kill me. But this is not the subject of this post, the quote is.

This quote impacts me everytime I feel lazy early in the morning because it's cold; or when I procrastinate something; or when I leave for tomorrow something that could be done now; or when I decide to stay one more semester at my work, instead of travelling.

I realise that one minute counts, because once it's gone... it's gone.

I would love to hear from you. What's your interpretation of this quote? Feel free to 'philosophize' on the comments down bellow.

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Disclaimer: The author of this post is a convict broken backpacker, who has travelled more than 10.000 km hitchhiking. Following him may cause severe problems of wanderlust and inquietud. You've been warned.