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In a Year of Perpetual Motion, Moments That Stopped Time

The 52 Places Traveler

Looking back on a whirlwind journey around the world, the 52 Places Traveler revisits the experiences that offered lessons for travel — and life.

Jan. 6, 2020

On my second day back in New York I walked into my neighborhood bodega and the Yemeni man behind the counter did a double take.

“Damn, bro, what happened? I thought you were dead!” he said.

The following night, I went to pick up an order at the Indian restaurant two blocks from my apartment.

“Long time, no see,” said the Bangladeshi manager who, since I’ve been gone, has grown a bushy beard. “Where have you been?”

What happened? Where have I been? After nearly a year in perpetual transit, hopping between the far-flung spots on 2019’s 52 Places to Go list, these are not easy questions to answer. Maybe a more cohesive picture of a once-in-a-lifetime year will crystallize with time. For now, the best I can do is draw out the moments that float on the surface of my memory, the ones I’m most grateful for, as they taught me invaluable lessons not only about the world, but also about myself. And isn’t that why we travel?

1. When I said yes to goat-carcass games and urban lions

By the third hour in a field on the outskirts of Samarkand, Uzbekistan, my hair had taken on the hue of the dust that filled the air in roaming clouds. Every time I smiled, which was often, more dust poured into my mouth. Two hundred men on horseback galloped back and forth across the dry grass, in pursuit of their target: a goat carcass stuffed full of sand. Shouts from the riders, the whinnying of horses and the cheers of thousands of spectators filled the air. At one point, being the only foreigner — and so a guest of honor — I was invited to ride on the truck that drove onto the field to drop the goat and start each round of kopkari, a sport that originated with the nomadic herders who inhabited these steppes 1,000 years ago.

Six months later and 5,000 miles away, in a small suburb of Dakar, Senegal, “false lions” — men channeling the spirit of the animal — growled, leapt and twirled in elaborate costumes. Drums thundered at earsplitting volumes and children shrieked in delight as the lions chased them through the fluorescently lit streets.

There’s a natural tendency to plan our travels down to the minute: We want to make sure we’re getting the most out of a trip that uses up our valuable money and vacation time. Toward the beginning of the year, I spent hours planning each stop — going over notes on the plane ride and sketching out what each day might look like. By my final stop, I barely knew where I was going to stay until the day before I arrived. The sweet spot is probably somewhere in between, with enough planning to know where you’re going but enough flexibility to say yes to the unexpected. New friends and the currents of serendipity brought me to the horses and the lions — and gave me two experiences I’ll never forget.

2. When I became a member of the guild

Hanging from the zipper of my camera bag is a small, bronze key. It grants me access to the backdoor of the Christian IV’s Guild clubhouse in the Danish city of Aalborg. Over the past year, I’ve accumulated soccer jerseys, paintings and a handwritten poem about an Italian horse, but this key, a symbol of my membership in a Danish society with roots in World War II, has to be the oddest gift. How I got it is just one of many examples of how dropping your guard and letting strangers into your life can lead to experiences far outside the realm of conventional tourism.

It started with Kit Sorensen, a friend twice-removed, who I met on my first afternoon in Aalborg. By the evening, she had taken off work for the remainder of the week to show me around. She took me out for pickled fish and aquavit, the straight-to-your-head spirit that Danes insist on drinking with lunch. Together, we explored World War II bunkers and the city-within-a-city of Fjordbyen. Sensing that I craved a home-cooked meal, she invited me to her family’s house, where I made even more friends — and got invited by a stranger to join the Christian IV’s Guild because he felt that “I had what it takes.”

When traveling alone, it’s up to you how alone you really are. Sit at a bar and take a break from your phone and in minutes you’ll be getting a laundry list of things to do from a local — as I did in Munich, in Danang, in Tunis. You might be invited to their homes — as I was in Georgia, Puerto Rico, Bulgaria. In a quiet bar in the small Japanese city of Takamatsu you might find yourself the only customer, going on a deep dive into salsa and New Orleans jazz with a cat-loving bartender who you would have never known if you hadn’t smiled and said “hello.”

There are walls that as a man traveling alone I didn’t have to put up. Being ethnically ambiguous was also, it turns out, my superpower, blending into the streets of so many places around the world, walking home at night and not even getting a second glance from locals. One’s experience of the world so often depends on one’s identity, and I can only speak to mine. At the same time, I believe that, in general, travelers will encounter kindness far more often than hostility. An open mind, a willingness to learn and an acknowledgment of our own ignorance about a new place or culture flings the doors that separate us wide open. Just ask all my new pen pals.

3. When I became my own best friend on a Norwegian fjord

Before a six-hour solo hike in the fjords surrounding Bergen, Norway, I intentionally left my headphones at home. It was sunny — a rarity for one of Europe’s rainiest cities — and I wanted to be present. It worked. I felt the light, cold breeze; I could smell the dewy grass and feel the foamlike tundra giving way under my boots. Six hours is a lot of time to be walking with nothing but your thoughts, but not once did I feel bored.

When I started this trip, the thought of spending so much time alone was one of my biggest worries. I’m an extrovert by nature. By my third month on the move, I was getting used to it. By my ninth, I was having full-on conversations with myself — out loud.

There’s something beautiful about learning to be comfortable with yourself — especially on the road. I could zero in on moments more completely without worrying whether a companion was having a good time. I could create memories that would be mine and mine alone — building blocks for my development as a person.

I was lonely, too, of course. I cried on the side of a Wyoming highway because John Prine’s “Summer’s End” came on the radio (“Come on home, you don’t have to be alone”); during a nearly four-hour meal at a Michelin-starred restaurant on the Dutch island of Texel, I fell into the abyss of staring at my phone; more than once I dreamed about being on my couch at home, with my partner and cat. But over time, I learned to see those moments coming and lean into them. That threw the distinction between heart-wrenching loneliness and blissful solitude into relief; it made the moments of connection with strangers that much more magical. Solo travel is so many things, psychological roller coaster included.

4. When I crossed the risk line on a dark Chilean highway

It was stupid, plain and simple. After getting off a series of canceled, rerouted and delayed flights that took me from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to Santiago, Chile, over the course of about 40 hours, I stumbled into a rental car just after sunset and hit the road for the town of La Serena. I was heading 300 miles north to get closer to where I’d be viewing the solar eclipse in a few days. It was about 40 degrees Fahrenheit, but I drove with the windows down and wore a T-shirt, hoping the cold would keep me awake. I blared death metal as loud as the car speakers could handle. I drank coffee like water. One tollbooth worker, seeing my disheveled and wired state, asked me if I was okay. I pulled into La Serena well after midnight.

This year was full of risks; they come with the job when traveling at the pace I was, alone and looking for stories to tell. Within just a few days of traveling this year, it was clear that some risks are worth taking. Getting into a car with that nice stranger promising a plate of life-changing pork in Puerto Rico’s interior? I can handle that. Solo hiking through the snowy Tatra Mountains of Slovakia? Armed with a trail map, I’m good. Driving for five and a half hours in an unfamiliar country, at night, after a hellish flight and no sleep? Nope: That was stupid.

In talking to friends, it quickly became clear that my threshold for risk is different from others’ (“Are you nuts?” my partner asked, after I told her about my night in the woods outside Batumi, Georgia, drinking myself blind with a bunch of strangers). But travel is ultimately a game of choose-your-own-adventure and part of that choice is figuring out the risks you’re comfortable taking. It’s a learning process and there will be mistakes — there sure were for me this year.

By Land and Sea

48 boat rides, 45 train trips

5. When my plans went to hell and I survived

There was the late night in a hotel in Salvador, Brazil, booking a trip to Mexico that would start the following morning, after my plans to get to the Falkland Islands, also known as the Islas Malvinas, had imploded. A total meltdown at the airport had led to check-in lines that extended past the terminal’s entrance. Despite arriving four hours before my flight and checking in online, I missed my flight — and as a result the once-weekly flight to the Falklands.

There was that scorching hot morning at the port in Banjul, Gambia, where my brother and I had no choice but to wait the four hours until a ferry finally arrived. I sweated out every drop of moisture in my body; I downed two liters of water and sweated that out, too, until the also-shadeless ferry arrived.

There was the carefully arranged Airbnb in La Serena that my host canceled with no explanation, just days before my arrival to watch the solar eclipse. I spent most of a night in Mexico, on spotty Wi-Fi looking for alternatives in a city that would be tripling in population for the eclipse.

There was the moment, three months in, when we had to make the call to cut Iran from my travel plans. The geopolitical situation had grown tense and even if I were given a journalist visa (unlikely), we had security concerns. It made the regular messages I received from Iranians on Instagram welcoming me to their country and offering to be my hosts all the more heartbreaking.

Things go wrong when traveling. And there’s something about the places of travel — airports, ferry terminals, train stations, hotels — that magnify feelings of panic and sadness. It’s a powerlessness we’re not used to when we think we have every detail of a trip planned out.

I learned that there’s very little you can do when your plans fall apart. I learned to pinpoint the small actions I could take and leave everything else to play out without me. I started on a long, circuitous route to Mexico the next day and pushed my Falklands trip to later in the month. The ferry did arrive — and 24 hours later, my brother and I were on a boat floating feet away from wild chimpanzees. I found another Airbnb at the last minute, and so what if it was a little farther out of the city? I kept in touch with my new online Iranian friends, promising that one day I would make it there — and I will.

Traveling is an incredible privilege and it’s mind-boggling how easy it is these days to cross the planet. Reminding myself of that got me through many a moment this year that previously would have left me a weepy mess on an airport floor.

under the sea

11 total hours underwater

6. When “no one goes there now” became my time to go

Travel itself, regardless of destination, is taking its toll on the environment: The most frequent, and valid, criticism I’ve received this year is for my Sasquatch-size carbon footprint. While no one at the Times is encouraging everyone to go to 52 places in a year — I’d think again if you are planning on trying this yourself — I also don’t believe the answer is not to travel. To see the natural wonder that still abounds; to encounter the places that are on the verge of catastrophic change because of a warming planet; to meet the people who deal with its effects every day and forge real, profound, cross-cultural connections makes for a more informed, empathetic world. That doesn’t mean there aren’t steps we can take to be more responsible travelers. And part of that is realizing that sustainability goes beyond carbon emissions.

The Falklands in the dead of winter, when I had a colony of King penguins to myself; Mexico in the crushing heat of summer, when the beaches were empty; Senegal and Gambia during the most humid month of the year, when locals were actually excited to see visitors who had braved it; Siberia’s Lake Baikal, in neither the glorious summer nor the spectacularly frozen winter, but instead in autumn, when the trees burn bright yellow.

In planning my trip and limiting cross-continental treks as much as possible, it proved difficult to be everywhere at the “right” time to visit. But again and again, I found myself falling for low season, when it was far easier to blend into the fabric of daily life because I wasn’t just part of a horde of tourists changing the face of entire cities for months at a time.

Cities like Venice — or even Zadar, in Croatia, as I saw when I arrived in the summer — are buckling under the weight of overtourism. As travelers, we could make a difference by spreading the wealth, so to speak. That means, for the most adventurous, going to places that are still hard to get to; it took me two tries to get to the Falklands and three to get out, but that made it special. But it also means thinking outside the “Europe in summer” paradigm.

taking to the skies

40 airlines, 88 flights (only 1 missed flight)

7. When I really learned what a “place to go” is

There’s beauty, surprise and genuine wonder to be found everywhere — and I mean everywhere. A Vegas naysayer can have his mind changed through a chance encounter with a crew of rockabilly musicians. A half-Indian student of history can learn about a mighty Indian empire, of which he knew nothing, by coming face-to-face with its ruins. A traveler can come home after 11 grueling months of continuous travel and start dreaming of where he’s going next.

But first, some sleep.

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restmark22-blog · 6 years ago

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The Driver’s Side” – News From The Motorist’s Perspective

Compiled by Otto Mobile

Your transportation related headlines for Friday, October 26th, 2018

CHICAGO, CHICAGOLAND, ILLINOIS HEADLINES

How Bruno And Chicago’s Other Instagram-Famous Pets Are Helping Other Animals In Need – Block Club Chicago

Should Halloween Be Moved To Saturdays – Chicago Tribune

Wacker To Shut Down At Congress All Weekend For Work On Old Chicago Post Office – Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago Avenue Bridge Closing Next Thursday For At Least 2 Months – Block Club Chicago

Chicago Alder-Turds Joke About Tearing Out Roads To Make Room For Obama Center Sledding Hill, Sticking Illinois Taxpayers With The $200M Bill – Block Club Chicago; Friends Of The Park Are Profiles In Cowardice For Going Along With Obama’s Jackson Park Land Grab – Chicago Now

Mayoral Candidate Bill Daley Says Parking Meter Lease Was A Mistake, Along With The Midnight Raid On Meigs Field — Daley Also Skeptical Of O’Hare Express Train Project – Chicago Sun-Times

6 Reasons Why A Vehicle Miles Traveled Tax Is A Crummy Way To Improve Illinois’ Roads And Bridges – Crain’s Chicago Business; Tribune Readers Oppose Vehicle Miles Traveled Tax – Chicago Tribune

Illinois Tollway Leaders Spar Over Spending As Expansion Is Planned – Chicago Daily Herald

Tribune Architecture Critic Blair Kamin — Chicago Skyway Canopies Restored To Original Streamlined Look, With Modern Updates – Chicago Tribune

How Bike-Tards Justify Not Wearing A Helmet, Putting Responsibility For Road Safety On Drivers And Everyone Else – Bicycling

Irving Park Homes On Keeler Avenue Under Boil Order After Water Main Breaks – Block Club Chicago

How Chicago Area Police Are Using ‘Ghost Cars’ To Catch Traffic Violators – Chicago Daily Herald

Is Red Light Camera Vendor Money Drop Kwame Raoul In Danger Of Losing The Illinois AG Race – Chicago Sun-Times

Walter Payton’s ‘Baby’ — His Porsche 930 Turbo — Is For Sale – Chicago Tribune

REALLY?! Tribune Editorial Board Says Amazon Should Come To Chicago, Despite Out Of Control Crime, End-Stage Fiscal Meltdown, Sky High Taxes, And An Aggressively Business-Hostile Climate – Chicago Tribune; Pritzker’s Double-Secret-Probation-Plan For An Illinois Tax Stick-Up, And How He Will Spend The Revenue Like A Drunken Sailor – Chicago Tribune, Crain’s Chicago Business; Chicago Fair Work Ordinance Is Just The Kind Of Anti-Business Nonsense Chicago (And Amazon) Doesn’t Need – Chicago Tribune; This Rauner Project Could Give Chicago The Same Lift It Could Get From Amazon – Crain’s Chicago Business

Bankruptcy Judge To OK Sears’ Plans For Store Closing Sales – Chicago Tribune

What Went Wrong At Treasure Island – Crain’s Chicago Business

Book Business Is Strong, Especially For Indie Stores, But Rising Real Estate Costs Pose Threat – Chicago Tribune

Pilsen Co-Living Development Has 59 Units, 59 Parking Spaces – Curbed Chicago

Crime Wave Hits Fulton Market — Businesses And Residents Want Action – WBBM AM 780 News Radio Chicago

Homeless People In The Library? Chicago, Suburban Libraries Turn To Social Workers For Help – Chicago Tribune; Proposal Would Tax High End Chicago Home Sales To Fund Homeless Programs – Chicago Sun-Times; Another Proposed Tax On High End Homes Would Fund Lead Pipe Replacement – Block Club Chicago

Police Issue Alert For Robbery Attempts At CTA Fullerton Red Line Station – CWB Chicago

Chicago’s Low-Line Path Under CTA Brown Line: Phase 1 Completed, Phase 2 to Come – Chicago Tonight

Yes, It’s An Ad Campaign, But Here’s The Back Story About Those CTA Pink Line Trains Covered In Dia de Los Muertos Art – Chicago Tribune

New Card Game Tries To Capture Thrills, Spills Of Riding The L – Chicago Tribune

New Metra Train Platform Dedicated Finally In Western Springs – Chicago Tribune

Billion-Dollar Plan For Rail Service From Ohio To Chicago Could Be In Place By 2026 – Chicago Tribune

Explore Chicago’s Role In Bicycle Culture At New Design Exhibit – Curbed Chicago

Meet Shimmy Braun, The Mortgage Lender Behind Those Flashy Drag Queen Billboards In Boystown – Chicago Tribune

Chicago Based Boeing, Other Defense Contractors Report Business Is Booming Thanks To New Spending, Lower Taxes – Chicago Tribune

Proposal To Build Park Ridge Sidewalk Could Create Dangers, School Board Members Say – Chicago Tribune

Schaumburg Hosts Public Hearing On Traffic Impact Fee – Chicago Daily Herald

New Tax District For Evanston’s Central Street Business District Planned – Evanston Now

Mundelein Installing New Welcome Street Signs Priced At About $30,000 Each – Chicago Tribune

Joliet Couple Survive Helicopter Crash After Pilot Passes Out, Then Help Rescue Him – Chicago Tribune

How An Autistic Indiana 6-Year-Old’s Car Wash-Themed Birthday Party Cleansed My Soul – Chicago Tribune

Indiana BMV To Extend Hours For Election Day – ABC 57 South Bend

Indiana Farmer Blazes Trail To Driverless Tractors – Ag Professional

Niles Early Voting Site Reopened After Evacuation Over Suspicious Vehicle – Chicago Sun-Times

‘Swatting’ Call At Pizza Restaurant And FedEx Truck Robbery Were Linked, Mundelein Police Say – Chicago Tribune

Sandwich School Bus Driver Facing Child Pornography Charges – Chicago Tribune

CHIRAQ REPORT — 3 Wounded, 1 Killed Thursday In Chicago Shootings – WBBM AM 780 News Radio Chicago; ‘High Probability’ That Two Mass Shootings In Chicago This Week Are Related – Chicago Tribune

Restaurant Owner Fatally Shot In NW Side Drive-By – WBBM AM 780 News Radio Chicago

Man Killed In Crash At Indiana Dunes Park Entrance – Chicago Tribune

Car Ablaze On Inbound Stevenson Briefly Snarls Morning Commutes – WBBM AM 780 News Radio Chicago

Minor Injuries For South Elgin Firefighter Responding To Semitrailer Fire – Chicago Daily Herald

NATIONAL AND WORLD HEADLINES

Germany Editorial: The War On Automobiles Is A War On Freedom – Deutsche Welle

A Vote For Repealing California Gas Tax Would Cut Off Money For San Francisco Transportation Boondoggles, Like The New $2.2B Transit Center That’s Sinking Into The Ground – San Francisco Examiner

Oregon Governor Seeks To Block Offshore Drilling – The Hill

As Federal Offshore Drilling Plan Nears, Florida Voters Weigh In – Governing

The Weirdest Driving Law In Every State – This Insider

This Phoenix-Area City Will Ditch Traffic Cameras That Nab Speeders — But Not Quite Yet – Arizona Republic

Canada: Red-Light Cameras Will Begin Snapping Photos Again Soon In Regina – CJME AM 890 Regina, Saskatchewan

Australia: Audit Questions Speed Camera Effectiveness – The Newspaper

7 Ways To Shut Down A Speed Trap – National Motorists Association Blog

Distracted Driving Could Be Solved For Fleets With A Simple Technology – Freight Waves

StreetLight Data Releases Accurate On-Demand Traffic Counts For Nearly Every US Road – Traffic Technology Today

Auto Insurers Often Charge Identical Neighbors Considerably Higher Premiums Because Of ZIP Code Differences – Consumer Federation Of America

In Groundbreaking Decision, Feds Say Hacking Software To Fix Your Car’s Electronics Is Legal – Vice

AutoComplete: Continental Wants You To See Through Your Car’s A – C-Net

McLaren’s New $2.25 Million Hypercar Sold Out Before It Was Even Announced – Fortune

Tesla Pulled The Full Self-Driving Option — Here’s What Customers Think – Ars Technica

Self-Driving Cars Are A Nonstarter For Many Teens, According To A New Study – CBS News

Self-Driving Cars Are Bringing The Trolley Problem Into The Real World – Science Friday; The Moral Dilemmas Of Self-Driving Cars – Inside Science

The Road To Self-Driving Cars Is Full Of Speed Bumps – Discover Magazine

Driverless? The Uncertain Future Of The American Trucker – ZD Net

GM Asks Trump Administration For Federal Electric Vehicle Requirement – Autoblog

Affordability Must Guide Our Path To Improved Fuel Economy – National Automobile Dealers Association

Spread Of Self-Driving Cars Could Cause More Pollution — Unless The Electric Grid Transforms Radically – The Conversation

Why Functionality Continues To Rule Over Security In The Connected Cars Industry – Tech Radar

EU Could Back Wi-Fi Over 5G For Connected Cars – Tech Radar

The Most Interesting Internet-Connected Vehicle Hacks On Record – ZD Net

Singapore Plans To Open Its Skies To Drone Taxi Test Flights In 2019 – Digital Trends

Elon Musk: Tesla Will Compete With Uber And Lyft – CNBC

UPS Gears Up For Deliveries By Electric Bike In Seattle – Autoblog

Turn Any Garage Door Opener Into A Smart Garage Door Opener – Boy Genius Report

Elon Musk Thinks California’s High-Speed Train Is Ludicrous: Larry Ellison – Fox Business

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mbtizone · 8 years ago

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John Locke (Lost): INFJ

Dominant Introverted Intuition [Ni]: Faith is very important to Locke. He can easily believe in that which he cannot see. He believes that he has a purpose, a destiny. While other people ridicule him, he is steadfast in his beliefs. The island is special. It isn’t just an island. Why can’t anybody else see that? Even though Locke doesn’t actually know what it is he’s supposed to do, he is certain that he’s meant for something. Locke is always on a quest that he pursues with relentless determination. Open the hatch. Push the button. Keep the people on the freighter from coming to the island. Get everyone to come back to the island. He pursues each and every goal with unwavering dedication. Locke can be very stubborn and when he has a goal, he won’t rest until he achieves it. He can easily speak in metaphor, and sometimes tells others stories that serve as allegories for what they’re actually experiencing.

Auxiliary Extroverted Feeling [Fe]: Locke is extremely in tune with the feelings of other people. When he wants to, he can harness this to be persuasive and diplomatic. Other times, his emotions get the better of him. Sometimes, when Locke feels that he needs someone to further his own goals, he can play on their emotions and manipulate them. Locke can motivate and inspire others when he wishes. When he addresses others in speeches, he speaks in terms of the larger group. “We” will do this and “we” will do that. Locke cares about other people’s opinions of him. He wants them to think that he knows what he’s doing. When he leads half of the group back to the barracks, he interrogates Sawyer about whether the others are saying about him. Are people regretting their decision to come along? Are they worried about what they should do next? One of his constant struggles is trying to get other people to believe him. His final words to Jack before his death were,“I wish you had believed me.” Locke wants to help people realize their full potential. He encourages Boone to break away from Shannon, as Locke believes that his preoccupation with her is holding him back. He tries to help Charlie with his drug addiction. He wants to teach Walt about how to survive in the jungle. When his Ni vision seemingly leads him nowhere, his Fe reacts strongly. After he fails to open the hatch and he loses Boone, his anger and frustration take over. Locke has a meltdown and begins screaming, crying, and banging on the hatch door. “I’ve done everything you wanted me to! So, why did you do this?! Why!” (Ni-Fe)

Tertiary Introverted Thinking [Ti]: Even though Locke takes a lot on faith, he can be quite rational. He doesn’t think out loud. When Locke decides to do something, he just does it, and doesn’t really care to explain what it is he’s actually doing. Locke doesn’t care about organizing his external world. He wants to understand it. He needs answers about the island. What is it? To everyone else, it’s just an island. Albeit, a very strange island, but not to Locke. He knows that it’s something much more than that. Locke looks beyond facts, data, and probability. He’s open-minded and has a very personalized system of logic, which can cause conflict with many of the other survivors, particularly Jack. Locke doesn’t just dive right into situations. He allows himself to mull things over until he can come up with the best approach.

Inferior Extroverted Sensing [Se]: Locke has made a point of being consciously alert in his surroundings. He has a very good grasp on his environment and knows how to engage with it. The outdoors stimulates him. He enjoys hunting, tracking animals, feeling the ground beneath his feet, feeling the rain on his skin, traipsing around the jungle… he loves it. He’s quick on his feet, coordinated, and has incredible aim. Though there are brief moments where Locke allows himself to live in the moment, it definitely isn’t the norm for him. Every action he takes is in service of a long-term goal. His mind is always on the future.

Enneagram: Okay, so I’m going to get out all of my thoughts here, because when it comes to Locke and enneagram, I have quite a few.If you go by the core fears of each type, he can appear like a 4 or a 5. Locke wants to be special and important, which aligns with 4. He also wants to be seen as competent and capable, but he doesn’t put as much emphasis on knowledge and learning as a typical 5. However, after careful consideration, I do not believe that he’s a 4 or a 5. I think he’s an 8w9. He’s decisive, willful, and determined, and while he does possess traits that are representative of other types, I’m trying to focus on which of those traits are most dominant in him. So, 8w9 4w5 5w4 So/Sp.

Quotes:

Locke: Hey, hey, don’t you walk away from me! You don’t know who you’re dealing with! Don’t ever tell me what I can’t do, ever! This is destiny. This is destiny. This is… This is my destiny. This… I’m supposed to do this, dammit! Don’t tell me what I can’t do! Don’t tell me what I can’t…

Jack: Don’t. It’s not real. Look, you want to push the button, you do it yourself. Locke: If it’s not real, then what are you doing here, Jack? Why did you come back? Why do you find it so hard to believe? Jack: Why do you find it so easy? Locke: It’s never been easy!

Locke: You know, Jack. You know that you’re here for a reason. You know it. And if you leave this place, that knowledge is gonna eat you alive from the inside out… until you decide to come back.

Locke: I’m going to find our friends. I don’t know how yet, but I will. We’re gonna find them, all of them. And then we’re gonna bring them home.

Locke:Jack, I’m not a cold man. I feel for the loss of one of our own, but nothing fundamental’s changed. Wherever he is, wherever he comes from, we’re on Ethan’s turf. He has the advantage. To him we’re nothing more than a bunch of scared idiots with sharp sticks.

Locke: I’ve looked into the eye of this island, and what I saw… was beautiful.

Locke: It was a dream, but… it was the most real thing I’ve ever experienced.

Locke: Everyone gets a new life on this island, Shannon. Maybe it’s time you start yours.

Boone: It’s about fifteen minutes since we’ve seen any sign. What are we following? Locke: My gut.

Locke: We were all brought here for a reason. Jack: Who brought us here, John? John: The Island.

Locke: Ludovico Buonarrati, Michelangelo’s father. He was a wealthy man. He had no understanding of the divinity in his son, so he beat him. No child of his was going to use his hands for a living. So, Michelangelo learned not to use his hands. Years later a visiting prince came into Michelangelo’s studio and found the master staring at a single 18 foot block of marble. Then he knew that the rumors were true — that Michelangelo had come in everyday for the last four months, stared at the marble, and gone home for his supper. So the prince asked the obvious — what are you doing? And Michelangelo turned around and looked at him, and whispered, sto lavorando, I’m working. Three years later that block of marble was the statue of David.

John Locke (Lost): INFJ was originally published on MBTI Zone

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dropbee7-blog · 6 years ago