My introduction (Esp/Eng)

**ENG**

Hello! My name is Miguel Rivas, I’m from Caracas, Venezuela, and I’m new in Peakd. I’m a university student majoring on Liberal Arts, a career focused on humanities. I’m interested on other subjects as well, like arts, philosophy and fitness. In this introduction, I don’t want to focus only on myself. I would like to talk about my interests and about the subjects that I would like to write about on this platform. Before I start, I would like to thank my girlfriend @shinfxx for introducing me to Peakd, for helping me to open my account and for guiding me through this new beginning.

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I’ve been very interested in literature since I was a teenager. Through this medium I’ve been able to access stories and ideas that I wouldn’t have accessed to otherwise. George RR Martin wrote in A Dance of Dragons that “a reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one” This quote summarizes what reading means to me.

Literature has allowed me to get close to the ideas and perspectives of authors that lived through processes very different than mine. They, in some cases by autobiographic means, others by literary means, printed their ideas on the characters of their novels. When I read, I could get closer to the experience of a Peruvian student in the 60s, a medieval warrior or a young Russian aristocrat from the 19th century.

This literary approach to different historical periods awakened an enormous curiosity within me. After being a mediocre and uncompromised student in the history courses of my school, I started to study those subjects autonomously. While I was getting to know different historical periods and processes, I started to get interested on the forms of social organization and political institutions. After a while, I started to wonder about people’s ideas.

This is how my interest on literature, history, politics and philosophy grew

By the moment I went to university I thought of studying an Economy major, but I was mostly focused on subjects related to humanities. I thought that I could be an economist with intellectual inclinations on other areas, but I started to realize that it would be better to study what I really was interested in. After a few courses on Economy, and after failing in math, I decided to take a leap of faith and going to Liberal Studies.

This decision was very hard, due to the uncertain character of the work prospects of the Liberal Studies graduate, which is not as clear as the Economy major one. However, in hindsight, I feel proud of this decision. The knowledge and the tools that I’ve acquired through this major are very worthy, and it would have taken me a lot of time to learn all of it in an autonomous way.

The other areas that I would like to focus my blog posts are art and fitness. This were my main shelters during the pandemic. Music, movies, videogames, literature and physical exercise allowed me to face the challenges of the pandemic, like loneliness and uncertainty. They also allowed me to feel a sense of progression and of working on myself.

This are the subjects that I want to write about in this blog. These are areas that I’m interested and that I have been working on for quite a while now. I would like to share with you many of the things that I’ve learned, and I would also like to do brief investigations and share the results here.

I would like to write about art, philosophy and fitness. On the artistic and literary side, there could be blog posts on analysis and reviews, but there could also be posts that analyze a particular artistic work through the lens the of a particular philosopher. About philosophy specifically, I would like to write brief reviews on the ideas of some authors. In the fitness area, I would like to write about my experience and my progress, and also about how the ideas of certain philosophers have implications for fitness and physical exercise.

I hope to be able to meet people that share my interests and to be able to engage in dialogue with them. I also hope that what I write is interesting for users of this platform. Without anything else to say, I finish my introduction. Goodbye, and thank you for reading.