Ahh the winter, the dark nights...
As a good Brazilian it does take me while to get my body and my mind used to the dark sky that shows the arrival of the winter. This whole grey sky and getting dark when it's only 5pm does drive me crazy. It makes me nostalgic. It makes me sad even though I have so many reasons to smile. Today for example when coming back home from work I turned my Iphone on and I chose to listen to U2 - not as written in mobile messages but the Irish band =D. I chosen to play U2 because I knew it that those 'sad' songs would take me back in time right to when I was a teenager and was in studying theatre. Times when I was too stuck up to be a hippie but too poor to be a proper posh guy but even though I was too much middle class to get myself surrounded by the hippies students of the theatre college at the time and too much poor to be involved with high class people I did both. I've been to favelas (slams) and met extraordinary people and also was able at the same time to meet 'crazy' and cool people whom were practically millionaires and lived 'the dream life'. The 'threat re days as I call the days when I was at the theatre I met this girl called Fernanda, who at first was just Fernanda the girl who studies theatre with me but turned out to be a friend who now has a very special place in my heart. Fernanda and I became buddies, dudes, peanut butter and jam. As so many other people in my life she made my life at that point a such better world and even though I had - at that time - so many reasons to cry she made me believe again that life can be tough yes but we can always sooth things a little bit.
Today when I put U2 on I chosen to let that nostalgic feeling take over and I chosen then with that soundtrack 'where to travel to'. I chosen to travel back on time and remember one of the dearest people in my life, Fernanda.
