It’s been a while since the last time that I wrote here. Sooner or later I think that for people that don’t have that strong habit of writing every days, there’s always spaces of more laziness, and despite my inner voice telling me to write more, most of the times I just ignore her. For example these last days she has been saying to write a lot of things: about feelings that I have at work, about strange Portuguese words that appear in my days and that I don’t understand its total meaning, about the will of change and about the fear of getting lost. I’ve been reading more in these two last months, reading in a way that I didn’t read for a long time, like getting home, eat something and literally go to the couch hear music and read. I spent years without doing this… I used to read on the trains, on the bus, on some weekend that I was going to the countryside, on the waiting room if I was waiting for being attended in some place, on the library if I had to do something to handle to some teacher. And it was good to rediscover this way of reading. To not have the TV on most of the days of the week… The good thing with this it’s that for moment we can stop reading, look ahead and think in something that the words suggested us. Even with a good new on TV nobody just “pause” the moment to stay thinking in what it might suggest, in the next minute we’re already being drove to other issue that took the previous one from our mind.
Regarding my list and its updates in these last times:
The great great change is that #7 is going to happen more soon that I was thinking. In fact, it has already a marked hour: May 22nd, at 10 in the morning. I’m not literally moving in that minute to a new house, but from that hour I will have a new one. It’s little, it’s not at the edge of the sea, it’s an apartment and I will be surrounded by neighbours. The good thing it’s that represents a big change in my life, a big change that brings bigger doubts and questions. Interior questions mainly, questions that I’m curious in knowing how I’m going to deal with them.
The first immediately thing that #7 brings is that I’m already putting all my life into boxes, and that is a curious thing. What do we want to take? What do we want to leave? What do we want to forget? I’m one of those persons that has hundreds of things that doesn’t worth anything, useless things, little things, tickets of journeys, of concerts, of movies that I really liked, thousands of papers that I don’t really need but that I always kept, and this is the moment where we say “Ok, this is really going to garbage”. And with that so many things go away. Of course that so many others will stay. The curious exercise of “what-do-I-want-to-keep-or-not-of-my-life”.
I’ve read a lot in these few days: on #90 I already read “La Fiévre”, from Le Clézio, the Literature Nobel Prize of 2008, and on #84 and #85 I have some updates to do. I already heard a good CD of Classical Music, and I already started the “learn another language thing” (to compensate the fact of having stopped reading the book in French… I didn’t pass the 1st chapter yet). On my work I had to phone to Spain and I talked in english with the man I phoned to… He didn’t understand much of English so by the middle of the conversation I was already talking in a mixture of Portuguese and Spanish, a mixture that by the end will not be any of either languages. So I decided to learn Spanish. Not to attend formal classes, I wouldn’t have time do it, but trying to learn by myself. The first step was to buy a book in spanish (I had on the shop books that I would prefer read, but I choose “La casa de los espíritus”, from Isabel Allende; I thought that start with the great poets, like Pablo Neruda, would be harder). Portuguese and Spanish are similar languages so it’s not being hard. I already passed the 1st chapter, and I’m underlining all the strange words. After reading this and maybe one more, I’ll buy a grammar and I will start practise writing. For me this is the more simple and easy way.
So, enough of updates for now… I feel that I wrote a lot today, but specially, I feel that I have so much more to write. To think. To talk. To share.
And that makes us feel good =)
