About several various things

First let me say Norah Jones belongs to the group of exceptional. I really thought she was more marketing than any other thing, but after the concert I attended last Sunday I have to say… she’s much more. With the most awful organisation, with a audience that only was there so they could say they went to see Norah to their friends the next day, she just captivated everybody and gave one hell of a show. Her voice, her attitude, her energy, her karma… she is the real thing.

It looks like there’s less then a week left for me to start working… I really can’t understand what I’m supposed to do in a company. Am I supposed to add value to that company? How? I miss school already and it just ended last week. Is it really over that period of my life when I was just supposed to learn? Isn’t it true that the more I learn now the more productive I can be in the future? I feel that there is so much that I still don’t know… it’s really a strange felling.

And last but not least… I’m still me!!! I continue to have no clue what I want for me, what should be my plans for the future (I’ve found out that the best thing is to not have any) or even get my mind to feel the same way about something or someone two days in a row… I guess that’s normal, but I really would to like be that sort of person that has fixed ideas and plans and just sticks to them… or maybe I wouldn’t :-p

Because what seems almost always never is

Dream

In visions of the dark night
I have dreamed of joy departed -
But a waking dream of life and light
Hath left me broken-hearted.

Ah! what is not a dream by day
To him whose eyes are cast
On things around him with a ray
Turned back upon the past ?

That holy dream - that holy dream,
While all the world were chiding,
Hath cheered me as a lovely beam
A lonely spirit guiding.

What though that light, thro' storm and night,
So trembled from afar -
What could there be more purely bright
In Truth's day-star ?

Edgar Allan Poe

Setúbal

Last month I was talking with a friend of mine telling him how I enjoyed visiting London, and then he started talking about his trip to Paris… and then we both agreed we should also visit Portuguese cities… the truth is that we only pay attention to things like the buildings or the people when we’re in a different place, and the consequence of that is that we don’t know well the cities that are dearest to us.
So this weekend I went to Setúbal.
Setúbal is a city near Lisbon that has it’s economy all based in fishing… of course we went there to eat fish!!!!
Here are a couple of photos…

Different is good…

Well I’ve always thought different was good but I’m starting to realise that it’s not only good but great. I used to get anxious about change, I tried to avoid it and many times I’ve been extremely good at achieving that goal. But on the last few months change has always brought positive things with it, and if it brought any negative thing, I was just to occupied, enjoying the good ones, to notice.
I’m finishing university, I’ve already got a job, I found myself doing sport regularly (again)… among a whole lot of other things that made me reach the conclusion that most people achieve when they’re ten… Different is good!
Don’t get me wrong. I’m still a guy of habits even with change I need my routines, my absolutely unexplainable habits that make me feel “myself”. I need to read on the bus, drink hot tea in the morning, chew gum once a day, and a whole lot of other things that make me the way I am.
But if new things appear instead of resisting them, I’ll for once say: Bring it on!!