A new discovery of the world
A new discovery of the world

Summary/Abstract: A song of the seventies recited “We are the world”. In facts, we feel to be part of the world. Earth is considered, in ancient literature, the mother of human kinds. Christian religion considers Adam born from the mud and Eva from one of his rips. Hindus consider that all the creatures do have the same importance in the existence. Our attachment to Earth remains in our constant sense of nostalgia of something to be found elsewhere, or for the place of our birth. Migrants try to return home. When we feel unsatisfied, we try to change life or, almost, to change place of living. Probably no one is satisfied with what he or she has, or the place where they are living. Everyone has the feeling of something that exists somewhere else, which could fulfill his/her life in the best way. Surely it is not easily explicable the sense of dissatisfaction of a routine life, or the sense of “going”, like it is for some nomads. Birds are the ancestors of humans; they know where to go, unlike men, who don’t know where to go, only they feel to go somewhere. This sense of “otherness” could instill an illness of unrest. The dialog on the film “The Wild One” with Marlon Brando (1953, directed by László Benedek), testifies this desire of “another world”. The nice girl, working in a bar, as a waitress, asks the boy, a new customer from another city: “Bring me somewhere, it doesn’t matter where, only somewhere else. I have attended all my life someone who takes me away”. The discoveries of Colombo, Vasco de Gama and the other great navigators were surely not only related to commercial expansion, but, probably unconsciously, to the sense of understanding where our world starts and finishes. The ameliorations of economic conditions of the modern world, and the increase of travel opportunities have renewed the sparkle of departure.

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