Hasn’t it been difficult for you to stay in Brasil after all the harm the Brasilian dictatorship has done to you in former times? What made you stay there although you have been imprisonned under very cruel circumstances from your own people?
It was impossible to live in Brazil, because after being in jail, you develop a kind of paranoia, you think that everybody is following you, listening to your conversations, etc. So, after being released, I went to London, but after three or four months, I realized that this was to scape to reality, to be a “strange in a strange land”for the rest of my life. So I decided to face my fears, and I returned to Brasil. It was better to die here than the be a living dead in a foreign place – I made this choice.
As for the second part of your question: I was not imprisioned by my own people, I was imprisioned by the military junta, that kept my people silent under the threat of weapons. My people was waiting, because there is no arguments against force. On the other hand, nobody can keep the pressure forever, so at the long run Freedom won, and here we are, with our problems, but also with the freedom to talk about them.
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…. Paulo, will you have write a book about that? What its like to live under military rule.
Kathleen xx
Yes,.. it is difficult to live in a foreign country. You always feel like an outsider.
No matter how hard you try to blend in, you simply can’t, unless it is the country you really love, where you feel comfortable, where you feel these similar vibes, the same rhythm.
Same love for life.
The problem is that you not always can chose where you want to live,
and
that’s why it is always hard to accept it; you always fight with yourself not to flee.
The only thing that help you survive are your dreams.
Dreams for a better, more beautiful tomorrow, for…new beginning,
and a sense of humor, of course.
That, help you find special moments in everything that shows up in your life.
It help you find this Light, wherever you are.
love
Agnieszka
It’s not Brazil. It’s the people in Brazil. The best part is when you’re free to realize not ALL people in Brazil are like that. That when you decide to say and surround yourself with better people:)
I had the experience once, of being “imprisoned” or “trapped” but not feeling so because I thought I HAD to be there and that I HAD to support someone I loved (or mistakenly mistook the feeling for love). Anyway, the point is… well, I really like your last bit of response about freedom.
it’s like going mad, a similar experience I guess.
you face it better by going back to your roots and try to make sense of things
“Facing the music”