If this Saturday was all about rain, thunders, challenging my inner #FuckItMellie (if you watch SCANDAL you got the reference)
and spend the entire afternoon watching football then last Saturday was
all about sun, friends, dinners and party. And by party I mean a 30th
year wedding anniversary party… excused to say they were my mother’s
friends. The tables were named after flowers and ours was Anastacia.
I’m floating with emotions.
That’s how I felt when I finished reading If I Stay two days
ago. What if the decision of living it’s on your hands. Even if you’re
laying in a hospital bed attached to machines to help you breathe.
That’s terrifying. That live as you know it can be gone in a second.
Without a note. Or a warning. Just like that it’s gone.
The decision. The decision itself can kill you. The fear of the
unknown can destroy you. But that same fear along with the hope are
strong enough to make you stay.
Summer afternoons were made for ice creams and walks by the park. It's August and there are finally boats at the park's lake. It's tradition in my hometown that every year after May 15th (city's day) there are boats at the local park. But this year the tradition took longer to arrive. And people were already questioning the hospital, who owns the park which actual belongs to the thermal hospital, for the reason behind the break of a tradition.
If three years ago you would have asked if I was going to apply for a Masters I would have told you no. If two years ago you would have asked me if I was feeling positive about the decision I was making I would have told you "not sure". If a year ago you would have asked me if I liked my theme I would have told you yes. But if nine months ago you would have asked me if I was happy I would have told you no. If half a year ago you would have asked me if I wanted to throw everything out of the window, throw all the papers away and quit it all I would have given a straight forward yes. I was losing my mind. Everything I would do never seemed enough. I didn't read enough. I didn't write enough. I wouldn't write properly. I was losing my mind. And in the middle of all that I got sick. Not once, but twice.
There are authors who follow you all your life. There are stories that get stuck in your brain. There are some people who remain with you through all your life. Sophia Mello Breyner Andersen is one of those people. Writer, poet with a political conscience. Among other awards she was the first woman to win Camões Award, the most prestigious Portuguese award for literature. One year before her death she won the prestigious Queen Sophia Award for ibero-american poetry. Today (July 2nd 2014) it's the 10th anniversary of her death. And it also marks the repatriation of her remains to the National Pantheon. The same place where it lays the remains of Presidents, historical and cultural figures. So today, we celebrated not her death but her extraordinary life. And oh, extraordinary it was.






