Dirty dishes

I don’t know about you, but I love washing dishes. Ok! That maybe sounds weird, particularly because there are so many things to do that washing dishes doesn’t seem to be one of the more pleasure activities. Though it is! You know, there is a connection among you, the foam, the sponge and the water; all together in the millennial assignment that sums up into three words: making it clean. When I wash the dishes — I do it particularly when I need to think –, I teleport myself for another place, where Gustavo meets Gustavo. Where my ideas go around without any limits neither modesties.

Projects! Who doesn’t plan their next day on the night before at 10:30 p.m., drying that pile of cups that you always get yourself thinking why all of that if we just have on mouth? The gym that doesn’t meet up with you for weeks, the gas bill that hasn’t arrived yet and your money is already finishing. The shirts that you let to iron on Sunday, but your friends called you to go to the beach and, on Monday morning, you didn’t have what to where.

An other big moment that the dishes — not a pot, but a pile of five pans, fourteen cups, four plates and a lot of cutlery — gives you is the challenging. As a big game against the clock starts up when you have a short time to make it clean. And, in the end, there is no lives to gain neither extra points.

I think that talking about the end is still premature. It has been only 24 years. A lot of experiences or few? It is so, so relative… Being here today, sat, showing a fragment of my mind for you and letting out all that bothers me makes me sad and search for more dishes to challenge me. Although, if you look backwards and see that these same 24 years suited to give you more time, to enjoy more the other and let life a little bit more untied, without that planning made at the edge of the wet sink, forget the dishes and go after him or her… Who knows? But, if even with this glimpse of rebelliousness, you don’t look backward and prefer face more dishes, congratulations! It is a signal that your professional life is one step closer to succeed.

It isn’t knowing for sure what is the reason for all of these. It is just believed that you dedicated yourself truly — as always — and proved more one time to yourself that you are toxic when handling with your personal life.

Author: Gustavo BUna

Version: Anna Rodrigues