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  I am asking my friend Five Ws and One H I believe what sets us homo sapiens apart from the rest of animal species is our sense of curiosity and wonder, besides the physical ones of course. Despite being among the weakest and least suited to survive in terms of physical abilities, it is humans that practically rule the world and dictate, as we sadly see now, the very future and existence of our only home, planet Earth.   If we didn’t have a curious mind, we wouldn’t have evolved beyond our basic needs of food, shelter and reproduction, just like other animals. The entire fields of art, science, technology, design, and everything that a modern society takes for granted evolved due to our sense of curiosity and wonder. Ironically, we find that by and large, among the younger generations and children, this very element is either nonexistent or waning rapidly. Very few are curious to the point of being annoying. These outlying children upset the carefully balanced society created by

  With my literal nomadic lifestyle, I am often asked by random people I randomly meet upon random roads, where is my home. My stock answer: tonight it is here (wherever and whichever country/city/town/village/mountain/forests/etc I might be at that moment) tomorrow I don’t know. This baffles everyone to some degrees at the very least if not altogether. The next question that follows is if I have a family anywhere. And my stock answer: I have families everywhere. This puzzles them even further. In this post I wish to address these two fundamental factors of a human existence, his home and his family, and how do they relate to my lifestyle and beliefs.   Truly speaking my real home are the mountains around the globe and just like them my life and meager belongings too are scattered through the continents. To me a home is not a residential address where my physical letters get delivered or where I park my materialistic possessions. I do agree that just like anyone else I do need a ph