Hello Dear Reader, I write this to you as a warning for your life. Below is my story. It's been a bit of a revelation these last few years, and I wanted to share it with you because I want it in the open. I want people to know that their life matters. Every decision, every turn, every move you make, matters. Let's start here: For many people who know me, I've always seemed to have a one-track mind, a singular focus for particular subjects like my obsession with golf, my affinity for the cinema, and in my younger years, a love of sharks. This is due to my Asperger's Syndrome, a mild case, but nonetheless diagnosed. I learned only about things that interested me, and minimal amounts of anything else. A habit I still carry with me, albeit not as severely. I'm someone whose entire life has been about avoiding failure and taking the easy way out. I never saw failure as an opportunity for growth and self-reflection on my character. Instead, I saw it as an indicato
Exploration. Man's undying and uncompromising will to find the hidden, to seek the unknowable, to prove the impossible possible. This is what Colonel Fawcett did not set out to do, but it became his destiny. The film follows Colonel Fawcett (Charlie Hunman), a British military officer who remains stagnant in the military, a man too old for his position, a man unable to grow in rank. His wife Nina (Sienna Miller), supports her husband in any way, while trying to further herself as a woman in an era that wouldn't allow it. Fawcett travels into what they called Amazonia, to find the border, the end of a river. He goes there on a mission to settle a map issue regarding Bolivia and Brazil, who were on the verge of war for rubber. Find where to draw the line, and the mission would be over. On the way there, Fawcett's guide tells them of a city with roads, buildings of gold, a civilization that was advanced beyond what the white man thought possible. As they r