About friends and the need to write
Writing is a healing process. Taking your time to sort out feelings and thoughts and translate them into words is a process that takes way more than just pen and paper. It takes emotional labor. And this is what makes writing about oneself such a powerful thing. Sometimes, it is harder doing it in your mother tongue.
Portuguese is an amazing and complete language, please don’t get me wrong. It is full of possibilities to express the amazingly large emotional spectrum that comes from being Brazilian. “Saudades”, the feeling of longing for someone or something that you no longer have, is one of my favorite words ever. So is “cafuné”, the act of caressing or tenderly running fingers through a loved one’s hair. It’s just that sometime, we need other words. Or we want to talk to other people.
The four friends starting this blog have a long last relationship with English. From travelling the world, living abroad, studying subjects with little to none materials in Portuguese, knowing this language opened many doors for us. And there are things that we learned how to express better this way.
The four of us also have a long last relationship with writing. To try and understand or own feelings or to make sense of the worlds problems, we have always relied on written words to share with the world. And now we want to go bigger. We want to share more, talk about different subjects, find new frontiers and keep our process of learning more about the world everyday.
So this is what you’ll find here: the feelings, thoughts and reflections of four friends (and their friends also!) about this moving words and what people produce in it. You may read an essay on world hunger, a review of an indie movie or a strongly personal and emotional piece. You will definitely find antagonic views and some quarrels as well, as we are as different as our stories had brought us to be.
This project with no name is a space for Gaia, Julia, Tamara and Theo to share, to reflect, to get to new conclusion. It is, on the bottom line, something to keep us together. And to keep us writing.
