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Why Do We Feel the Need to Explore Things and Places?
The Continuous Battle Between Not Being Forgotten and Taking Great Risks in Your Life
On Mar 15, 1925, "The Air Mail" premieres, film directed by Irvin V. Willat in which a stuntwoman whose name will not sound familiar to you acted.
I am going to focus on her story to explain, discover and understand together why we act as we do. How the fear of being forgotten moves every section of our life and what is hidden behind these desires and behaviours.
“We only find the world we are looking for.”
— Henry David Thoreau
All Starts with Doing Crazy Things
Her name won’t ring you because history has almost forget about her. In one way or another, she dedicated her entire life to explore new ways to made her profession increasingly “exciting”, especially for the others.
Gladys Roy is our protagonist, a brave women that dedicated to did “wing walks” and frequently performed high-flying stunts at state fair type events.
She made a name for herself by doing the Charleston on the wings of a speeding plane, 3,000 feet in the air and holding — in those years — the…
