<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845</id><updated>2011-11-17T13:02:43.738-08:00</updated><category term='random | aleatório'/><category term='beginning | início'/><category term='intermission | interrupção'/><category term='happiness | alegria'/><category term='dream | sonho'/><category term='hope | esperança'/><category term='goodness | bondade'/><category term='soulmates | almas gémeas'/><category term='hero | herói'/><category term='loneliness | solidão'/><category term='friendship | amizade'/><category term='update | actualização'/><category term='love | amor'/><category term='fanfiction'/><category term='life | vida'/><category term='record | recorde'/><category term='humanity | humanidade'/><category term='sadness | tristeza'/><category term='saudade'/><category term='saudade&#xD;dream | sonhosadness | tristezaloneliness | solidãolove | amorhumanity | humanidade'/><category term='beauty | beleza'/><title type='text'>LUCIEN'S LIBRARY</title><subtitle type='html'>( i wish... )</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>70</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-3519194717761880880</id><published>2011-05-12T11:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-13T13:35:27.440-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='saudade&#xD;dream | sonhosadness | tristezaloneliness | solidãolove | amorhumanity | humanidade'/><title type='text'>68 LOCKED INSIDE | TRANCADO</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="349"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KO4v2kwQOAw?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=pt_PT"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KO4v2kwQOAw?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=pt_PT" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="349" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is nothing like this sweet refuge, ineffable silence after the tremor and terror of a war that was never mine...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Defeated, I walk these long and empty corridors of this house of gods and take a deep breath, let my body of no longer of flesh and blood exhale the rest of the earthly world and inhale all of this divinity. It feels like small hands are guiding me to a room in the center of this sanctuary, where peace and rest stream like an endless river, where walls are like arms that lull and squeeze me in a motherly embrace...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This house is not mine, but I've suffered so much to get here... Others like me have traced the same path, have overcome the same obstacles and made the same sacrifices, but at the last crossroads, at the last choice, turned to the cruel alternative. Such a stupid destiny is theirs, a torment of blood and pain and disappointment, while in this empty room the dirty blood is cleaned from my skin and scars, and my suffering is so sweetly lessened, sleep is so much better than what my tortured mind had expected...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Such a pointless decision is theirs, I think, to fight for a cause that not even hope believes in, instead of accepting their deserved reward for so many troubles, and again my anger builds... I can't quite understand what they hope to accomplish in their bizarre actions, and other type of latent hurting, the kind that not even this lovely room can heal, crushes me for knowing that these people so dear to me are so far away, still endangered...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But my worries are short-lived, for sleep and exhaustion and the small, empty hands murmur to my ear, tell me it is my time to slumber, to rest after a life of doubt and meaningless fighting... My dark musings are covered by a deep white velvet, as void as this house of gods, and a dreamless sleep imobilyzes me in body and soul...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However part of my wondering remains, a seed sheltered under the cover of this peace, as pale and ephemeral as snow...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Não há nada como este doce refúgio, inefável silêncio após o tremor e o terror de uma guerra que nunca foi minha…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Derrotado, percorro os corredores longos e vazios desta casa de deuses e respiro fundo, deixo o meu corpo que já não é carne e osso exalar o resto do mundo terreno e inspirar toda esta divindidade. Parece que pequenas mãos me guiam até um quarto no centro deste santuário, onde a paz e o descanso correm como um rio sem fim, onde as paredes são como braços que me embalam e me apertam num abraço maternal…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esta casa não é minha, mas sofri tanto para cá chegar… Outros como eu percorreram o mesmo caminho, ultrapassaram os mesmos obstáculos e fizeram os mesmos sacrifícios, mas na última bifurcação, na última escolha, optaram pela cruel alternativa. Que destino tão estúpido o deles, o calvário do sangue e dor e desilusão, enquanto neste quarto vazio o sangue sujo é-me lavado da pele e das cicatrizes e o sofrimento é tão docemente aliviado, o sono é tão melhor do que a minha mente atormentada esperava…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Que decisão tão parva a deles, penso eu, lutar por uma causa em que nem a própria esperança acredita em vez de aceitar a recompensa merecida por tantas atribulações, e logo a raiva volta a acumular-se… Custa-me entender o que esperam conseguir com as suas estranhas acções, e outro tipo de sofrimento latente, daquele tipo que nem este amável quarto me pode curar, esmaga-me por saber estas pessoas que me são queridas tão longe de mim, ainda em perigo…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas a minha inquietação dura pouco, pois o sono e a exaustão e as pequenas, vazias mãos murmuram-me ao ouvido, dizem-me que chegou a minha hora de dormir, de descansar de uma vida de dúvidas e lutas sem sentido… A preocupação é coberta por um profundo branco, tão vazio como esta casa de deuses, e um sono sem sonhos imobiliza-me em corpo e alma…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Porém parte da minha curiosidade fica, uma semente abrigada sob a cobertura desta paz, tão alva e efémera como neve...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-3519194717761880880?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/3519194717761880880/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2011/05/68-locked-inside-trancado.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/3519194717761880880'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/3519194717761880880'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2011/05/68-locked-inside-trancado.html' title='68 LOCKED INSIDE | TRANCADO'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-2094061162900094352</id><published>2011-02-15T16:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-15T16:28:39.877-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life | vida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loneliness | solidão'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hero | herói'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dream | sonho'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship | amizade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sadness | tristeza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soulmates | almas gémeas'/><title type='text'>67 LOYAL | LEAL</title><content type='html'>I don't want to be condemned to just following you, to observe you from a distance as you clumsily crumble forward, to be just out of reach as you nobly struggle with demons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wish I could stand by you if only for one moment, hold your hand and brave your problems with you, while you fill my hungry heart with a kind of beauty that is much more than just seen: it is heard, touched and felt. It is loved whole-heartedly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I see you, and I hear you. I wish I could touch you. Can you feel me here? Will you let me love you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Não quero estar condenado a apenas seguir-te, a observar-te à distância enquanto tentativamente tropeças e segues em frente, a estar fora do teu alcance enquanto nobremente te debates com demónios.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Queria estar a teu lado ainda que por apenas um momento, segurar-te a mão e desfazer os teus problemas contigo, enquanto enches o meu coração faminto com um tipo de beleza que é mais que visível: é audível, é palpável e sentido. É amado em toda a extensão do seu ser.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eu vejo-te, e eu ouço-te. Queria poder tocar-te. Consegues sentir-me aqui? Deixas que te ame?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-2094061162900094352?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/2094061162900094352/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2011/02/67-loyal-leal.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/2094061162900094352'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/2094061162900094352'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2011/02/67-loyal-leal.html' title='67 LOYAL | LEAL'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-6900272099070662175</id><published>2010-11-24T14:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-24T14:49:57.871-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life | vida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hope | esperança'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loneliness | solidão'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sadness | tristeza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soulmates | almas gémeas'/><title type='text'>66 KING | REI</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/d28ieFrMy4o?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=pt_PT&amp;amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;amp;color2=0xfebd01"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/d28ieFrMy4o?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=pt_PT&amp;amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;amp;color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The whisper of his name overwhelms the voices of this land, brutally unstoppable, while banners fall under the weight of his authority. The ground skins the knees and hands of his underlings, black blood, dry, reeks upon the blades of his weapons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The monarch sits on his throne, as cold, still and impassive as the granite paling beneath him. Just and severe, he listens and speaks his will upon the inquiries of those seeking his advice, so many times cruel, yet always right. There has never been a kingdom this violent, there has never been a kingdom this prosper. Its glorious history written in blood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ever wise and powerful, his iron composure seems to have no weakness nor pause, the world knows not but the face of a man that is God, an idol more invariable than his own Earth, for even it trembles and changes at the whims of time and fire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Only one knows the face of the god that is not but a Man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inside the smothering silence of night, when the thousands of eyes of the kingdom stray from the throne and the monarch thus becomes invisible, his body of flesh and blood finally trembles, his eyes full of color and emotion finally cry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With heavy, disturbed pace, receiver of all guilt of his world's conscience, the man-king crawls beneath the many bright eyes of the sky, towards a place that, being in such way hidden among the lightless spots, is as invisible as him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A series of unnatural lines mark with a word the grey of a rock, planted like a sacred tree among the dark grass. The king's fingers brush it like a caress while he steps away from the world by entering the world inside it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The moon doesn't watch the land underneath the land, but it is a pale, cerulean light that guides his anguish steps. The whisper of a stream seems to come from up ahead, ever closer, but never has water sounded so human, inviting... motherly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Crying, the monarch carries on, longing to find comfort.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, this cave's path takes a turn and the king's world subtly fills with warmth and light. The water murmurs and covers this heart hidden in the stone, almost dripped, liquid moonlight for the way it shimmers softly. But in between its translucidity something living seems to move, immensely warm and tender, the infinite loops of the curls of its hair unrolling down its bare skin. Her whispers are a calling to which the king can't wait to reply.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One after the other, the many exquisite layers of fabric covering the monarch are scattered, revealing his so very shaky body, needy, irrepairably vulnerable. The crown echoes in a terrible sound as it falls to the rocky ground.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With each step he takes, the rocks fade to a fine, ordered, impossibly blue mosaic, the water surrounds him, wraps his naked body and embraces him. Little time goes by until his confidant, the myterious entity, envelops him in her curls and care as well, surrendering the monarch to his most profound anguish, who now falls, weeps and trembles more than ever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is in these hours of uninterrupted mourning that the king's iron heart spill all the locked away suffering, all the weight of his actions and decisions so cruel and necessary, all the blood impassively drawn. During these hours, the divinity he carries is shattered, the scars its wound leaves burn, just to be kissed and soothed by the entity that embraces him, comforts him in his fetal position. During these hours, his divinity is reborn in its most noble form.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So vulnerable, at last! But it's alright...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The king's tears are collected in this bizzarre lake, and it is this salty water and its guardian that gradually heal the Man-king... After all, tears do so much better when they are out...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Time goes by, but the night seems to be still, eternal, outside. Eventually all the humanity repressed for weeks is spilt in the wonderful and painful process, and the embrace of his confidant draws away, while she leaves one shy yet loving kiss upon his sobbing, salty face.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In little time, the monarch expels his last tears, walks, revigorated, out of the lake and once again takes the place of the unchangeable leader of this land...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the journey that returns him to his throne, a soft smile, filled with hope and rebirth, stains his mask of inexpression.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During this journey underneath the bright eyes of the sky, the monarch gathers his last moments of raw happiness, of irresponsibility and liberty, until this unavoidable and perfect circle restarts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O múrmurio do seu nome alastra brutalmente imparável pelas vozes desta terra, enquanto os estandartes caem sob o peso da sua autoridade. O chão esfola os joelhos e mãos dos seus súbditos, o sangue negro, seco, fede no metal das suas armas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O monarca senta-se no seu trono, tão frio, imóvel e impávido como o granito que palece por baixo dele. Justo e severo, ouve e declara a sua vontade sobre os inquéritos daqueles que buscam o seu conselho, tantas vezes cruel, mas sempre certo. Nunca se viu reino tão violento, nunca se viu reino tão próspero. A sua gloriosa história escrita a sangue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eternamente forte e sábio, a sua postura férrea parece não ter fraqueza ou intervalo, o mundo não conhece senão a face de um homem que é Deus, um ídolo mais invariável que a sua própria Terra, pois mesmo esta treme e muda ao sabor dos caprichos do tempo e do fogo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apenas um conhece a face do deus que não é senão um Homem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dentro do silêncio sufocante da noite, quando os milhares de olhares se desviam do trono e o monarca se torna, assim, invisível, o seu corpo de carne e osso finalmente treme, os seus olhos cheios de cor e emoção finalmente choram.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Com um andar pesado, perturbado, depósito de todas as culpas da consciência do seu mundo, o homem-rei rasteja para debaixo dos muitos olhos luminosos do céu, em direcção a um ponto que, de tão escondido nos espaços sem luz, se torna tão invisível como ele.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uma série de linhas não naturais marcam com uma palavra o cinzento de uma rocha, plantada como uma árvore sagrada no meio da relva negra. Os dedos do rei passam por ela como uma carícia enquanto ele se afasta do mundo ao entrar no mundo dentro dele.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A lua não olha a terra por baixo da terra, mas é uma luz pálida e azulada que guia os seus passos angustiados. O sussurro de um regato parece ouvir-se mais à frente, cada vez mais perto, mas nunca a água soou tão humana, convidativa... maternal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Choroso, o monarca avança, ansioso por encontrar consolo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finalmente, o caminho da caverna faz uma curva e o mundo do rei subtilmente enche-se de calor e luz. A água sussurra e cobre este coração escondido na pedra, parecendo luar líquido escorrido pela forma como brilha suavemente. Mas pelo meio da translucidez parece mover-se algo vivo, imensamente quente e ternurento, as infinitas voltas dos caracóis do seu cabelo desenrolando-se pela sua pele exposta. Os seus murmúrios tornam-se um chamamento ao qual o rei mal pode esperar para responder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Um após outro, os vários vistosos tecidos que cobrem o monarca são descartados, revelando o seu corpo tão tremeluzente, carente, irremediavelmente vulnerável. A coroa ecoa num som terrível ao cair no chão rochoso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A cada passo que ele avança, as rochas suavizam num mosaico fino, ordenado, impossivelmente azul, a água rodeia-o, trepa-lhe pelo corpo nu e abraça-o. Pouco tempo passa até que a sua confidente, a misteriosa entidade, o envolva também nos seus caracóis e carinho, rendendo o monarca à sua angústia mais profunda, que cai, chora e treme mais que nunca.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E é nestas horas de pranto ininterrupto que o coração de ferro do rei escorre todo o sofrimento oculto, todo o peso das suas acções e decisões tão cruéis e necessárias, todo o sangue impavidamente derramado. Por estas horas, a divindade que carrega é desfeita, as cicatrizes que deixa ardem, apenas para serem beijadas e atenuadas pela entidade que o abraça, o consola na sua posição fetal. Por estas horas, a divindade renasce na sua forma mais nobre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tão vulnerável, por fim! Mas não faz mal...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As lágrimas do rei são recolhidas neste bizarro lago, e é esta água salgada e sua guardiã que gradualmente curam o Homem-rei... Afinal, as lágrimas fazem muito melhor quando estão cá fora...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O tempo passa, mas a noite parece imóvel, eterna, lá fora. Eventualmente toda a humanidade reprimida durante semanas é escorrida neste maravilhoso e doloroso processo, e o abraço da sua confidente afasta-se, enquanto ela deixa um tímido mas sentido beijo na sua face soluçante, salgada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Em pouco tempo, o monarca expulsa as suas últimas lágrimas, caminha, revigorado, para fora do lago e volta a vestir a pele do imutável líder desta terra...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Durante o caminho que o retorna ao seu trono, um sorriso meigo, cheio de esperança e recomeço, tinge a sua máscara de inexpressão.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Durante este caminho por baixo dos olhos luminosos do céu, o monarca recolhe os últimos momentos de felicidade em bruto, de irresponsabilidade e liberdade, até que recomece o inevitável círculo perfeito.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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REI'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-1958938685981265445</id><published>2010-04-15T11:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-15T11:03:23.202-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship | amizade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='goodness | bondade'/><title type='text'>65 BIRTHDAYS | ANIVERSÁRIOS</title><content type='html'>The Maker has exceeded Himself today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From His arduous labor, an unbalancedly brilliant work remained, a center of immense potential.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was only fair that He divided it in two, one part for each of the next two days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Each of them witnessed the birth of a perfect encarnation of that labor, to this day so overflowing with marvels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O Criador excedeu-Se hoje.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do Seu trabalho árduo ficou uma obra desequilibradamente brilhante, um centro de potencial imenso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Foi apenas justo que Ele o tivesse dividido em dois, o tivesse distribuído pelos dois dias seguintes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cada um deles viu nascer uma perfeita encarnação desse trabalho, até hoje tão abundante em maravilhas.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-1958938685981265445?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/1958938685981265445/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2010/04/65-birthdays-aniversarios.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/1958938685981265445'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/1958938685981265445'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2010/04/65-birthdays-aniversarios.html' title='65 BIRTHDAYS | ANIVERSÁRIOS'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-5184742656008132227</id><published>2010-04-12T16:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-12T16:21:17.715-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life | vida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hope | esperança'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loneliness | solidão'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sadness | tristeza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soulmates | almas gémeas'/><title type='text'>64 ALONE | SÓ</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="340" height="285"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1XMy7aSfYGU&amp;hl=pt_PT&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01&amp;border=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1XMy7aSfYGU&amp;hl=pt_PT&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Neverending_Story"&gt;THE NEVERENDING STORY (THE BOOK, OF COURSE) CO-INSPIRED THIS | A HISTÓRIA INTERMINÁVEL (O LIVRO, CLARO) CO-INSPIROU ISTO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I roam through the corridors of this empty house, and thus empty is the film running the tapes of my memory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alone I have crossed the world, for there has never been nothing or nobody else, and for knowing there has to be something or someone else I go on. I always thought myself the only one, I always hoped not to be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't believe to have a purpose to this aimless jorney, and without knowing where I am or what I want I carry on through these tunnels, with each step losing even more of what I no longer own.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The snow no longer falls outside, but its cold grip embraces this house and its silence. Still I go on... I have nowhere to go, and therefore nowhere to stop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In an unwanted despair for more, my feet drag me to a lit room, and through the light a thread of photographs is stretched, an unique revelation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In each of them loneliness is lost in held hands and smiles, caresses, kisses and embraces, in the person receiving them. Tears run down me in the marvel of the emotion I see here photographed, I can feel its force merely by running a finger across the paper, my desire to have it for myself trembles my whole body. This is it, I think and I'm sure, this is it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Something hurts deep inside, but I know not to give it name or reason, power or cure. This is what I have searched for for so long, I know it well, but even these still pictures are nothing more than dead memories. I found my course without knowing how to find it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I leave this sorrowed house, once more I walk the empty trails of snow. But this time I bring hope with me. Held by an arm, an embrace paints the photographic paper with happiness, strong hands squeezing, protecting the soul of the fortunate person so close. In a fluid motion, I raise the picture well above my head, hoping that someone will see me, will prove to me that this beauty I've found, forgotten, isn't lost yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am so insignificant, on my own, a measley dot upon the infinite white. I will be everything when I cling you to my arms, when I make you smile and you know how much you really are, you have always been.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deambulo pelos corredores desta casa vazia, e assim vazia está a fita que corre as cassetes da minha memória.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sozinho já corri o mundo por nunca ter havido mais nada nem ninguém, e por saber que tem de haver mais algo ou alguém continuo. Sempre me pensei o único, sempre desejei não ser.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Não creio ter propósito na minha viagem sem rumo, e sem saber onde estou nem o que quero sigo por estes túneis, a cada passo perdendo ainda mais do eu que já não tenho.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A neve já não cai lá fora, mas o seu frio aperto abraça esta casa e o seu silêncio. Mesmo assim continuo... Estou sem onde ir, e por isso sem onde parar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Num sem-querer desespero de ter mais, os meus pés levam-me para um quarto iluminado, e através da luz estende-se um cordão de fotografias, uma revelação sem igual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Em todas a solidão perde-se em mãos dadas e sorrisos, carícias, beijos e abraços, na pessoa que as recebe. As lágrimas correm-me na maravilha da emoção que vejo fotografada, sinto-lhe a força só de correr pelo papel um dedo, sinto o desejo de a ter para mim tremer-me o corpo todo. É isto, penso e estou certo, é isto!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Qualquer coisa dói bem dentro, mas não lhe sei dar nome nem razão, poder ou cura. Isto é o que procurei durante tempo, eu bem o sei, mas mesmo estas quietas fotografias nada são mais que memórias. Encontrei o meu rumo sem saber como encontrá-lo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saio desta triste casa, novamente caminho pelos vazios trilhos de neve. Mas desta vez trago esperança comigo. Debaixo de um braço, um abraço pinta o papel fotográfico de felicidade, mãos fortes apertando, protegendo a alma da pessoa afortunada tão perto. Num movimento fluido, levanto a fotografia bem acima da minha cabeça, esperando que alguém me veja, me prove que ainda não se perdeu a beleza que descobri, esquecida.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sou tão insignificante, sozinho, um mísero ponto no infinito branco. Serei tudo quando te apertar nos meus braços, quando te fizer sorrir e souberes o quanto imenso tu és, sempre foste.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-5184742656008132227?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/5184742656008132227/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2010/04/64-alone-so.html#comment-form' title='2 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/5184742656008132227'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/5184742656008132227'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2010/04/64-alone-so.html' title='64 ALONE | SÓ'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-7927289475565848840</id><published>2010-03-21T04:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-21T04:31:30.498-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life | vida'/><title type='text'>63 SPRING | PRIMAVERA</title><content type='html'>The birds have reinvented their song today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They're waking the trees and the seeds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Os pássaros hoje reinventaram a sua canção.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Acordam as árvores e as sementes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-7927289475565848840?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/7927289475565848840/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2010/03/63-spring-primavera.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/7927289475565848840'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/7927289475565848840'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2010/03/63-spring-primavera.html' title='63 SPRING | PRIMAVERA'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-2247788643461466098</id><published>2010-03-11T14:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-11T14:12:54.407-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life | vida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loneliness | solidão'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='saudade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fanfiction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soulmates | almas gémeas'/><title type='text'>62 TAKE A DEEP BREATH | RESPIRA FUNDO</title><content type='html'>All this self-restraint crumbles my lonely body, my heart in apnea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kissing you feels like breathing life again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Todo este auto-controlo desmantela o meu corpo só, o meu coração em apneia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beijar-te sabe a respirar vida de novo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-2247788643461466098?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/2247788643461466098/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' 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src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-4676891904595718885</id><published>2010-03-10T16:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-10T16:38:11.764-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life | vida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hope | esperança'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loneliness | solidão'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship | amizade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sadness | tristeza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='goodness | bondade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soulmates | almas gémeas'/><title type='text'>61 SUICIDE | SUICÍDIO</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="340" height="285"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gEyQI7tmkG4&amp;hl=pt_PT&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01&amp;border=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gEyQI7tmkG4&amp;hl=pt_PT&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="340" height="285"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Hopeless meets the Hopeless on the verge of despair.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Extraordinary how with a mere look, with nothing but mutual yet fundamental exchanged understanding, hope is born where no hope ever lived.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O Desespero encontra o Desespero à beira do desespero.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Extraordinário como com apenas um olhar, nada mais que compreensão mútua mas fundamental trocada, a esperança nasce onde esperança nunca houve.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-4676891904595718885?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/4676891904595718885/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2010/03/61-suicide-suicidio.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/4676891904595718885'/><link rel='self' 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term='loneliness | solidão'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sadness | tristeza'/><title type='text'>60 MUTE | MUDO</title><content type='html'>Once upon a time there was a boy that hated saying "I love you" aloud.&lt;br /&gt;His tongue suddenly seemed to him so impure for such words.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So with his voice he created a million of periphrases to try to express that emotion.&lt;br /&gt;And with his hands a million of selfless gentures to support them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His mouth wouldn't tire, sincere, and his hands wouldn't falter, passionate.&lt;br /&gt;And in such way he loved, squeezed all of his humble heart to deliver the essence to whom in his own eyes deserved it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But his silent feelings were mute to those who received them.&lt;br /&gt;And his love incomplete without the magic words his tongue would break.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunate people, they are so insecure...&lt;br /&gt;Needing to trap the baloon with a thread of words so that it won't flee, when the love filling it has already been delivered to them so gently by hand...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saddened was then the boy, feeling weak, powerless, a coward...&lt;br /&gt;Tears ran down his face, drowned his will to share his mute yet so genuine care.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Era uma vez um rapaz que detestava dizer "eu amo-te" em voz alta.&lt;br /&gt;A sua língua de repente parecia-lhe tão impura para tais palavras.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por isso com a sua voz criava um milhão de perífrases para tentar expressar esse sentimento.&lt;br /&gt;E com as suas mãos um milhão de gestos altruístas para as apoiar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A sua boca não se cansava, sincera, e as suas mão não desistiam, apaixonadas.&lt;br /&gt;E assim ele amava, espremia todo o seu humilde coração para entregar a essência a quem ao seus olhos a merecia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas seus sentimentos silenciosos mudos eram para quem os recebia.&lt;br /&gt;E seu amor incompleto sem as palavras mágicas que a língua dele travava.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pobres das pessoas, tão inseguras...&lt;br /&gt;Que precisam de prender o balão com um fio de palavras para que não fuja, quando o amor que o enche já lhes foi entregue tão gentilmente à mão...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Triste ficou então o rapaz, sentido-se fraco, cobarde...&lt;br /&gt;Lágrimas desceram-lhe a face, afogaram a vontade de partilhar o seu mudo mas tão genuíno carinho.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-2443789308144901754?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/2443789308144901754/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2010/03/60-mute-mudo.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/2443789308144901754'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/2443789308144901754'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2010/03/60-mute-mudo.html' title='60 MUTE | MUDO'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-2959535131206796295</id><published>2010-02-28T16:15:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-28T16:21:25.220-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life | vida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hope | esperança'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><title type='text'>59 LIFE | VIDA</title><content type='html'>Aim for the sky.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Die trying to get there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy the flight anyway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voa para o céu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Morre sem lá nunca chegares.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aproveita a viagem de qualquer forma.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-2959535131206796295?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/2959535131206796295/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2010/02/59-life-vida.html#comment-form' title='2 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/2959535131206796295'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/2959535131206796295'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2010/02/59-life-vida.html' title='59 LIFE | VIDA'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-7245402853540380147</id><published>2010-02-06T10:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-06T10:23:02.099-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='goodness | bondade'/><title type='text'>58 LOVE IS | AMAR É</title><content type='html'>Love is wanting to give up everything you are for someone...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... and that someone never letting you do that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amar é querer abandonar tudo o que somos por alguém...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... e esse alguém nunca deixar que o façamos.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-7245402853540380147?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/7245402853540380147/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2010/02/58-love-is-amar-e.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/7245402853540380147'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/7245402853540380147'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2010/02/58-love-is-amar-e.html' title='58 LOVE IS | AMAR É'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-7895912957304982058</id><published>2010-01-18T17:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-19T15:07:10.023-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life | vida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hope | esperança'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beauty | beleza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dream | sonho'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sadness | tristeza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soulmates | almas gémeas'/><title type='text'>57 REBIRTHING | RENASCER</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="340" height="285"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/y0s7ycdUcHk&amp;hl=pt_PT&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01&amp;border=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/y0s7ycdUcHk&amp;hl=pt_PT&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="340" height="285"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;or as my sister made me see... | ou como a minha irmã me fez ver...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="340" height="285"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/aiXBz3eyek0&amp;hl=pt_PT&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01&amp;border=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aiXBz3eyek0&amp;hl=pt_PT&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="340" height="285"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm born and my clarity of spirit is lost in this bag of meat, blood and bones they make me wear, that smothers me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sick, I forget what I want, what I can and what I dream, in this nightmare-net of lies that restrains me, that denies me of what I was - what I still am.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blind, I see beauty and ignore that beauty is beyond this shade of light that my frail eyes catch, that my limited mind aspires to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lost, I stick to the redundant path that all the other lost ones have chosen for me, and all of us walk in circles, roamless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I look at you, and for moments the veil sways aside and I see, I truly see the truth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I speak to you, and my nuissance of meat becomes a glove I can use for the unimaginable, cure of its own disease, despite its imperfections.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I touch you, and I remember what I was and what I still am, I recall what is to dream and I dream of what we can be, what we're supposed to be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love you, and I find with you the path I've wanted to follow at the beginning, so different from the imperfect circle the blinded stumble upon, so glorious with the company I now bring with me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am reborn and my clarity of spirit has come with me, in this bright soul we share, we form, we are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nasço e a minha claridade de espírito perde-se neste saco de carne, sangue e ossos que me obrigam a vestir, que me sufoca.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Doente, esqueço-me do que quero, do que posso e do que sonho, neste pesadelo-rede de mentiras que me prende, que me nega o que eu já fui - o que ainda sou.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cego, vejo beleza e ignoro que a beleza é além desta sombra de luz que os meus fracos olhos apanham, que a minha mente limitada aspira.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perdido, ligo-me ao redundante caminho que outros perdidos escolheram para mim, e todos andamos em círculos, sem rumo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Olho-te, e por momentos o véu desvia-se e vejo, vejo de verdade a verdade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Falo-te, e o meu problema de carne torna-se uma luva que posso usar para o inimaginável, cura da sua própria doença, apesar das suas imperfeições.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Toco-te, e lembro-me do que já fui e do que ainda sou, recordo-me do que é sonhar e sonho com o que podemos ser, o que é suposto sermos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amo-te, e encontro contigo o caminho que quis seguir a ínicio, tão diferente do círculo imperfeito em que os cegos tropeçam, tão glorioso com a companhia que agora trago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Renasço e a minha claridade de espírito vem comigo, nesta alma brilhante que partilhamos, que formamos, que somos.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-7895912957304982058?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/7895912957304982058/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2010/01/57-rebirthing-renascer.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/7895912957304982058'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/7895912957304982058'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2010/01/57-rebirthing-renascer.html' title='57 REBIRTHING | RENASCER'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-4668860619827615649</id><published>2010-01-17T14:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-17T14:23:16.647-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life | vida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hope | esperança'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='saudade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sadness | tristeza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fanfiction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soulmates | almas gémeas'/><title type='text'>56 SKY | CÉU</title><content type='html'>They tell me to be optimistic. They tell me to see things like this: at least you and I are underneath the same sky.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that makes me more reasured, actually. But...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wish our sky were my bed-sheets. The clouds would be the pillows and the stars the sweet, delicate (yet passionate!) love we'd make. The moon would envy your skin and the sun couldn't shine more than me. Day or night, only our sweat would rain beneath our velvet sky, the atmosphere charged with energy and heat, with the intense scent of desire... Lightning would fall with every kiss, with every touch, and thunder would echoe with our whimpers of completion, in the storm of being finally together...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe the next time I'll be able to create the world. And then, I'll be able to take full joy from what they tell me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dizem-me para ser optimista. Dizem-me para ver assim as coisas: pelo menos eu e tu estamos debaixo do mesmo céu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E isso deixa-me mais satisfeito, na verdade. Mas...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gostava que o nosso céu fosse os meus lençóis. As nuvens seriam as almofadas e as estrelas o doce, delicado (mas apaixonado!) amor que faríamos. A lua teria inveja da tua pele e o sol não podia brilhar mais que eu. Dia ou noite, apenas choveria o nosso suor sob o nosso céu de veludo, a atmosfera carregada de energia e calor, do aroma intenso do desejo... Relâmpagos desceriam com cada beijo, cada toque, e os trovões ecoariam com os nossos arquejos de prazer, na tempestade de estarmos finalmente juntos...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ai...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Talvez da próxima vez possa ser eu a criar o mundo. E então, já poderei ficar completamente feliz com o que me dizem.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-4668860619827615649?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/4668860619827615649/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2010/01/56-sky-ceu.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/4668860619827615649'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/4668860619827615649'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2010/01/56-sky-ceu.html' title='56 SKY | CÉU'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-3284868201639042873</id><published>2009-10-31T10:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-31T10:48:00.036-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life | vida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hope | esperança'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loneliness | solidão'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='saudade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sadness | tristeza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soulmates | almas gémeas'/><title type='text'>55 LACRYMOSA</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="340" height="285"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fYnUM61KGog&amp;hl=pt-br&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01&amp;border=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fYnUM61KGog&amp;hl=pt-br&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="340" height="285"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I follow a path of dark light with feet I don't have, I search for you beyond this ripped curtain with eyes that cannot see, I want to comfort you in that world where I once lived with emotion I no longer feel...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I follow, my skin is transparent and blurred, pale, and my grey lips little remember of what makes a smile. The movements are difficult to someone who no longer knows what bones, muscles and joints are for, and you won't feel me breathe either. I shouldn't be here, but today is an exception... Because today, and only today, the dead can come comfort the living: for some moments this barrier fades and I can tell you I'm well, and how much I want you to be well...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even without eyes, feet or feelings, I can know where you are, because what connects us never depended on that. My walking soul meanders between others than following my same path, searching for their own treasures, and when I find you in this starless night, your face almost as pale as mine, the empty space where our heart would fit so well gets sad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your eyes bleed a river of salty water upon the grave where I never was (because after death, what is the body more than a lump of matter?), and I understand why a day like this exists. The living, innocents in their limited vision, suffer with this fake absence, this eternal distance, without understanding there is nothing eternal or unpassable between life and death. We need to assure them of hope, we need to lessen their anguish, we need to help them feel their own soul, so immersed in flesh and blood, so that they can see that in the end all that exists becomes a gigantic meeting point. I approach you and involve you in a hug once lived a million times, I whisper words of tenderness upon your warm skin, I absorb your sorrow so that all that's left is love and understanding, absorb the injustice and the time that passes so fast and leave only hope...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am well, my love, I have always been.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And you're well too, use the best you can the path you still have to walk in that plan, because sooner than later we will meet again...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You no longer feel me with skin, ears or eyes, but I speak to your soul, and, for now, it is at peace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I let you go with some reluctance (after all, it's not only the living who need to kill nostalgia, and I did miss you), your tears have already dried and a smile graces you, reflected on my borrowed lips.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now I return to my world, again among the others who have already fulfilled their mission for today, and little by little the frail yet to definitive veil that separates us is reweaved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Between shadow and light, our encounter gave you strength to go on another year, knowing the Truth without actually knowing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am well, my love, and soon you will be as well...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sigo um caminho de luz escura com pés que não tenho, procuro-te para além desta cortina esfarrapada com olhos que não vêem, quero confortar-te nesse teu mundo onde já vivi com uma emoção que não sinto...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enquanto sigo, a minha pele é translúcida e esbatida, pálida, e os meus lábios cinzentos pouco se lembram do que faz um sorriso. Os movimentos são custosos para quem já não sabe para que servem ossos, músculos e tendões, nem me vais sentir a respirar. Não devia cá estar, mas hoje é uma excepção... É que hoje, e apenas por hoje, os mortos podem vir confortar os vivos: por momentos essa barreira difunde-se e eu posso dizer-te que estou bem, e o quanto quero que tu estejas bem...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mesmo sem olhos, pés nem sentimentos, consigo saber onde estás, porque o que nos liga nunca dependeu disso. A minha alma ambulante meandra pelas outras que seguem o meu mesmo rumo, procurando os seus próprios tesouros, e quando te encontro nesta noite sem estrelas, a tua face quase tão pálida como a minha, o vazio onde cabia tão bem o nosso coração entristece.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Os teus olhos sangram um rio de água salgada sobre a campa onde eu nunca estive (porque depois da morte, o que é o corpo senão um aglomerado de matéria?), e eu percebo porque um dia como este existe. Os vivos, inocentes na sua visão limitada, sofrem com esta falsa ausência, esta distância eterna, sem perceberem que não há nada de eterno nem intransponível entre a vida e a morte. É preciso assegurá-los da esperança, é preciso aliviar a sua angústia, é preciso ajudá-los a sentir a sua própria alma tão imersa na carne e sangue, para que possam ver que no fim tudo o que existe se transforma num gigantesco ponto de encontro. Aproximo-me de ti e envolvo-te num abraço já vivido antes um milhão de vezes, murmuro-te palavras de carinho contra a tua pele quente, absorvo a tua tristeza para que só reste amor e compreensão, absorvo a injustiça e o tempo que passa tão depressa e deixo apenas esperança...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eu estou bem, meu amor, sempre estive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E tu também estás, aproveita ao máximo o caminho que te falta nesse plano, porque mais cedo que tarde voltar-nos-emos a encontrar...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tu não me sentes agora com a pele, ouvidos e olhos, mas eu falo com a tua alma, e, por agora, ela fica apaziguada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enquanto te largo com alguma relutância (afinal, não são só os vivos que precisam de matar a saudade, e eu tive tuas), as tuas lágrimas já secaram e um sorriso adorna-te, reflectindo-se nos meus lábios emprestados.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Agora regresso ao meu mundo, novamente por entre os outros que já cumpriram a sua missão de hoje, e pouco a pouco o frágil mas tão definitivo véu que nos separa volta a ser tecido.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Entre as sombras e a luz, o nosso encontro deu-te força para continuares mais um ano, sabendo a Verdade sem a saberes realmente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estou bem, meu amor, e tu em breve também estarás...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-3284868201639042873?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/3284868201639042873/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/10/55-lacrymosa.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/3284868201639042873'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/3284868201639042873'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/10/55-lacrymosa.html' title='55 LACRYMOSA'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-4233280491425277497</id><published>2009-10-21T17:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-21T17:58:25.347-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life | vida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hope | esperança'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loneliness | solidão'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='saudade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship | amizade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sadness | tristeza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='goodness | bondade'/><title type='text'>54 SOLAR PANELS FOR YOU | PAINÉIS SOLARES PARA TI</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;You know who you are :D | Tu sabes quem és :D&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today there's a girl sitting on the roof, under the scorching sun in a cloudless blue sky. Her legs stretched, she has a solar panel over her knees, and she smiles as the black squares of this honeycomb of technology absorb the fiery heat of this blinding star, that hurts her eyes but cheers her up in a way only the sun can.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She waits until the panel is completely charged, the sun is precious and she needs to make the most of it; the sun is strong and an excellent remedy, and she wants to save the most possible... for the times and places where the sun doesn't go... And for this one she already has a set destination...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another girl lives in those lands without light or warmth, where the sun is a shadow of the brightness it has here. This girl is stronger than she thinks, and because of this she can handle the cold and the dark, with a light that's hers, unique and beautiful, a mixture of colors she can manipulate and use to enchant, and another kind of light, offered to her with pleasure, care and friendship, and today the honeylight inside the solar panel is with it...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Contrary to what most people may think, the post-office was even happy to see the first girl arriving with the enormous and delicate wrapped panel, a gift, and it was with pleasure (though with a tad of extra work...) that they sent it to the faraway lands of the rare sun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now the girl who lives in the dark has received it, and from it she gets a sun that the first girl hopes it feels like a gigantic embrace, warm and cozy, that reaches the depths of her soul and scares all that is bad with an outstanding strength, even when all else fails.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the force of friendship, this is its main principle, a situation where everyone wins.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second girl has more light and warmth in her beautiful yet hostile world, and the first girl can now open her eyes wider because the light no longer blinds her, it has even been added new colors, beautiful innuendos of magic and mysticism...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Friendship, like everything that's correct and harmonious, is a balance, in this case it was of light and warmth. It's interesting to see how even the biology that rules me uses the same sense of balance, if you miss something, it's my duty and pleasure to give you what you're missing, and like this we can climb together the trail of ultimate happiness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll always be here to give you light and warmth, to be the small but eternal candle that lights any night you might wander in, because you have already painted all of my life and heart with the magnificent colors that dwell in your soul.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I still have a pile of solar panels to use... You can always count on them :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoje está uma rapariga sentada no telhado, por baixo do sol ardente num céu azul sem nuvens. De pernas esticadas, tem um painel solar sobre os joelhos, e ela sorri enquanto os quadrados negros deste favo de tecnologia absorvem o calor fogoso desta estrela ofuscante, que lhe magoa os olhos mas a alegra como só o sol consegue alegrar uma pessoa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ela espera até que o painel fique completamente carregado, o sol é precioso e é preciso aproveitá-lo bem; o sol é forte e é um excelente remédio, e ela quer guardar o máximo possível... para as alturas e lugares onde o sol não vai... E para este ela já tem um destino dado...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uma outra rapariga vive nessas terras sem luz nem calor, onde o sol é uma sombra do brilho que tem aqui. Essa rapariga é mais forte do que ela pensa, e por isso aguenta bem o frio e o escuro, com uma luz que é própria, única e bela, uma mistura de cores que ela molda e faz encantar, e outra, que foi oferecida com agrado, carinho e amizade, e hoje também a luz de mel contida no painel solar está com ela...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ao contrário do que se possa pensar, os serviços de correio até ficaram felizes por ver a primeira rapariga a chegar com o enorme e delicado painel embrulhado, uma prenda, e foi com prazer (embora com trabalho acrescentado) que o enviaram para as longínquas terras do sol raro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E agora a rapariga que vive no escuro recebeu-o, e dele recebe um sol que a primeira rapariga espera ser como um abraço gigantesco, quente e confortável, que lhe chega ao fundo da alma e afasta tudo o que é mau com uma força estrondosa, mesmo quando tudo o resto falha.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;É esta a força da amizade, é este o seu principal princípio, uma situação em que todos ganham.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A segunda rapariga tem mais luz e calor no seu mundo belo mas hostil, e a primeira rapariga pode abrir mais os olhos porque a luz já não a ofusca, aliás, até lhe foram adicionadas novas cores, belos inuendos de magia e misticismo...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amizade, como tudo o que é correcto e harmonioso, é um equilíbrio, neste caso foi de luz e calor. É interessante ver como mesmo a biologia que me rege se baseia no mesmo sentido de equilíbrio, se te falta algo, é meu dever e prazer ceder-te o que te falta, e assim juntas podemos subir o trilho da última felicidade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estarei aqui sempre para te dar a luz e calor, para ser a vela pequena mas eterna que ilumina qualquer noite por que te aventures dentro, porque tu já pintaste a toda a minha vida e o meu coração com as magníficas cores que te percorrem a alma.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tenho ainda uma pilha de paineis solares por usar... Podes contar sempre com eles :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-4233280491425277497?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/4233280491425277497/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/10/54-solar-panels-for-you-paineis-solares.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/4233280491425277497'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/4233280491425277497'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/10/54-solar-panels-for-you-paineis-solares.html' title='54 SOLAR PANELS FOR YOU | PAINÉIS SOLARES PARA TI'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-4613314573493961437</id><published>2009-10-18T17:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-18T17:21:03.167-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life | vida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hope | esperança'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loneliness | solidão'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beauty | beleza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sadness | tristeza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='goodness | bondade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soulmates | almas gémeas'/><title type='text'>53 THE WINDOW AND DANCING CURTAIN | A JANELA E CORTINA DANÇANTE</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="340" height="285"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1IzLDT73bkk&amp;hl=pt-br&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01&amp;border=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1IzLDT73bkk&amp;hl=pt-br&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="340" height="285"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes, while I walk by or sit at the garden of my street, my gaze drifts up, and there I find the window and the dancing curtain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The curtain dances without ever covering the window completely, its rhythmless soudless waltz, and in between the empty spaces I glimpse a shadow, a face: empty, passive but expectant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The face doesn't change while I see it, and no matter how much time goes by I know it still waits for me: for me, a gesture of mine, a sign of recognition; something different from the stare I send to it, that even without me wanting it still marks the shadow and its face as strangers, marginals, misunderstood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My heart quenches and I know I should do something, but time goes by and the face (almost sad) is taken away with a dance step of the curtain: I have missed my chance...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suddenly I feel as vulgar as everyone that walks and sits around me, at the garden of my street, ignorant of the secret watcher, or perhaps very aware of him, just denying his existence, the care he deserves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I return home and gaze at the window once more, but I expect to see it empty even before I notice only the curtain dances there now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At night it is the shadow to visit the garden, walking the steps of serenity as he sits with his head down on the same bench I had used before, I almost mistake him for a ghost under the pale light of the streetlights and the blue darkness of the nightly air.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tonight I see him there with the same face he has at the window, and with his head down he remains, held between despaired hands, until suddenly he also looks up and sees me, without a dancing curtain to envelop me, and after moments of motionless observation that seem like eterneties to me he lowers his head once more, as empty in his gestures as I was before towards him... But he must have seen my despair now, my regret... He must know I wish to respond to him, but not even now, not even with out positions inverted, was I able to attempt a single gesture to him...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some more time passes and I'm paralyzed, and in the meanwhile he gets up and returns to the house of the window and dancing curtain. But somewhere along the way he picks up a rose from the garden and takes it with him, maybe its thorned beauty reminding him of this beautiful yet hostile reality... I go to sleep, but I dream dreams of turbulence and regret... Something inside me revolts itself against my cold passivity, my horrible prejudice, and my inability of ending them...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the next day the ritual repeats itself, but when I look up from our bench to the window, hopeful of a second chance, he isn't there, just the somber eternal waltz of the curtain...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I almost cry, feeling in my entire heart the pain of how much I lost and made others lose with my imobility, but a rough hello and a sudden wave of red in my vision prevent me from doing so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The shadow is in front of me, still with his empty, passive and expectant face, but this time he holds a rose that he places before me, but this time my hope from before is reflected in his eyes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And this time is so easy to respond to him...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A hello and a genuine smile (of relief, of joy), I accept the rose that after all is a gift for me and I see in the shadow a beauty beyond the paleness and stoicism that covers it, I see in him a spark of an infinite happiness that starts with this miniscule moment of mutual existence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I understand a moment like this, or similar, is necessary for any existant degree of happiness, and I realize that it really doesn't matter who starts it or how long it takes for it to start, as long as it exists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He holds my hand and all that was wrong disappears, we can walk in our garden now, without prejudice, fear or ignorance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Never again needs the window to hide it, never again will the dancing curtain keep him away from him (reflections of my silly passivity)...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love him and it's with pride I bring him to the world, a world that with my hand in his even becomes beautiful and not hostile, a rose without thorns...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por vezes, enquanto passeio ou me sento no jardim da minha rua, o meu olhar desvia-se para cima, e lá encontro a janela e a sua cortina.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A cortina dança sem nunca tapar totalmente a janela, a sua valsa sem ritmo certo ou melodia, e por entre os espaços vazios vislumbro um vulto, uma cara: vazia, passiva mas expectante.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A cara não muda enquanto olho, e por mais tempo que passe sei que ela ainda me espera: a mim, um gesto meu, um sinal de reconhecimento; algo diferente do olhar que lhe mando, que mesmo sem eu querer marca o vulto e a sua cara como estranhos, marginais, incompreendidos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O meu coração aperta-se e sei que devo fazer algo, mas o tempo passa e a cara (quase triste) é levada com um passo de dança da cortina: perdi a minha oportunidade...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De repente sinto-me tão reles como todos os que se passeiam e sentam à minha volta, no jardim da minha rua, ignorantes do secreto vigilante, ou talvez até bastante conscientes dele, apenas negadores da sua existência, do carinho que merece.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Volto para casa e volto a espreitar àquela janela, mas já espero vê-la vazia antes de reparar que só a cortina lá dança agora.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De noite é o vulto que visita o jardim, caminhando os passos da serenidade enquanto se senta de cabeça baixa no mesmo banco em que eu estivera antes, quase o confundo com um fantasma à pálida luz dos candeeiros de rua e à azul escuridão do ar da noite.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esta noite vejo-o lá com a mesma cara com que está à janela, e de cabeça baixa ele permanece, segura entre mãos desesperadas, até que de repente também ele olha para cima e me vê, sem cortina dançante a envolver-me, e após momentos de imóvel observação que me parecem eternidades ele volta a baixar a cabeça, tão vazio nos seus gestos como eu fora antes com ele... Mas ele deve ter visto o meu desespero agora, o meu arrependimento... Ele deve saber que desejo responder-lhe, mas nem agora, mesmo com as nossas posições invertidas, fui capaz de lhe esboçar um único gesto...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mais tempo passa e eu estou paralizada, e entretanto ele levanta-se e regressa à casa da janela e cortina dançante. Mas a meio do caminho ele corta uma rosa do jardim e leva-a com ele, talvez a sua espinhosa beleza lembrando-lhe esta bela mas hostil realidade... Vou dormir, mas sonho sonhos de tumulto e arrependimento... Algo dentro de mim revolta-se contra a minha fria passividade, o meu horrível preconceito, e a minha inabilidade de acabar com eles...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No dia seguinte o ritual repete-se, mas quando olho para cima do nosso banco para a janela, esperançosa de uma segunda oportunidade, ele não está lá, só a valsa sóbria e eterna da cortina...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quase que choro, sentindo em todo o coração a dor do tanto que perdi e fiz perder com a minha imobilidade, mas um roufenho olá e uma súbita onda de vermelho no meu campo de visão impedem-me de tal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O vulto está à minha frente, ainda com a sua cara vazia, passiva e expectante, mas desta vez segura uma rosa que coloca à minha frente, mas desta vez a minha esperança de há pouco reflecte-se nos seus olhos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E desta vez é tão fácil responder-lhe...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Um olá e um genuíno sorriso (de alívio, de alegria), aceito a rosa que afinal é uma oferta para mim e vejo no vulto uma beleza que está para além da palidez e do estoicismo que o cobre, vejo nele uma faísca de uma felicidade infinita que começa com este minúsculo momento de mútua existência.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Percebo que é necessário este momento, ou um semelhante, para qualquer grau existente de felicidade, e entendo que não interessa bem quem o começa ou quanto tempo demora, desde que exista.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ele segura-me na mão e tudo o que houve de mal desaparece, podemos caminhar juntos pelo nosso jardim agora, sem preconceito, medo ou ignorância.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nunca mais a janela o terá de esconder, nunca mais a cortina dançante o afastará de mim (reflexos da minha tola passividade)...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amo-o e com orgulho o trago para o mundo, um mundo que com a minha mão na dele até se torna belo e não hostil, uma rosa sem espinhos...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='saudade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sadness | tristeza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soulmates | almas gémeas'/><title type='text'>52 BEGINNINGS | INÍCIOS</title><content type='html'>Loving is watching someone die,&lt;br /&gt;Because it's only when you're looking into their eyes,&lt;br /&gt;Watching the dark taking them away from you,&lt;br /&gt;That you realize&lt;br /&gt;How little time you still have together&lt;br /&gt;And how much there's still to live...&lt;br /&gt;(and will always be)&lt;br /&gt;Your heart fills with emotion, you hold them closer to you...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then you understand that true love can only come after life and death,&lt;br /&gt;Because then there are no longer limitations, there is no longer time, distance or prejudice.&lt;br /&gt;(and love is not having limitations, time, distance or prejudice)&lt;br /&gt;In the end, it's just you and them, together.&lt;br /&gt;In the end, it's just you, the two (or more) parts of you, forever (and here forever is indeed eternal).&lt;br /&gt;(You still hold them, but you now awaiy: love is overcoming a barrier)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This end is a beginning, the only true beginning that in fact exists for love...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amar é ver alguém morrer,&lt;br /&gt;Porque é so quando olhas nos seus olhos,&lt;br /&gt;Vês o escuro levá-los para longe de ti,&lt;br /&gt;Que te apercebes&lt;br /&gt;Quão pouco é o tempo que vos resta juntos&lt;br /&gt;E o tanto que ainda há para viver...&lt;br /&gt;(e sempre haverá)&lt;br /&gt;O teu coração enche-se de emoção, agarra-los mais perto de ti...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Então percebes que o verdadeiro amor só pode vir depois da vida e da morte,&lt;br /&gt;Porque então não há mais limites, não há mais tempo, distância ou preconceito&lt;br /&gt;(e amor é não haver limites, tempo distância ou preconceito)&lt;br /&gt;No fim, és só tu e eles, juntos.&lt;br /&gt;No fim, és só tu, as duas (ou mais) partes de ti, para sempre (e aqui para sempre é mesmo eterno).&lt;br /&gt;(Ainda te agarras, mas agora aguardas: o amor é transpor uma barreira)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Este fim é um início, o único verdadeiro início que de facto existe para amar...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-2472789283717964304?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/2472789283717964304/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/10/52-beginnings-inicios.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/2472789283717964304'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/2472789283717964304'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/10/52-beginnings-inicios.html' title='52 BEGINNINGS | INÍCIOS'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-4385604689275703982</id><published>2009-10-06T14:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-06T14:18:18.838-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life | vida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hope | esperança'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loneliness | solidão'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dream | sonho'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='saudade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sadness | tristeza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soulmates | almas gémeas'/><title type='text'>51 KISS | BEIJO</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="340" height="285"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/H-bpNG0CUO0&amp;hl=pt-br&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01&amp;border=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/H-bpNG0CUO0&amp;hl=pt-br&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="340" height="285"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was in a dream that I found how soul-mates are formed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One day an evil force took the soul of the world and broke it to billions of lost shards, and these billions of shards lost themselves even more, when each of them broke in half (though it seems so much more than just half when they take our life meaning away with our soul-mate...) and separated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now imprisoned in these bags of meat, bones and blood, these fragments of a mourning soul look for the piece that completes them in an epic adventure, only able to remember their important mission when they dream, reliving the attack of the evil force, when the trivial problems of this world so strange can no longer drown their thought.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Each one of them suffers this eternity without completion, without these human bodies of theirs remembering what is to be beyond life and death, without knowing such state of harmony even exists. But sometimes two gazes meet and dream finds reality, a piece finds another, a soul shard heals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Such has happened to me, to see myself in you and feel my center respond to you as if you were part of me... It has happened to me, to wake up from a dream in which you were the one to make me smile and ask myself if this could be a prevision of a pleasant future...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Face to face, our lips draw closer. I feel as if this is a long awaited reencounter and tears run down my eyes. I feel the click of two immense and critical pieces joining together when we finally kiss, the adjustment of a repaired soul in bliss.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The feeling that connects us cannot be consumed by time, but it never really was created to obey to it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know this world is just a phase: beyond time, dream and awakeness, the true world awaits us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Foi num sonho que descobri como se formam as almas gémeas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Um dia uma força maligna pegou na alma do mundo e partiu-a em biliões de perdidos fragmentos, e esses biliões de fragmentos perderam-se mais ainda, quando cada um deles se partiu ao meio (mas parece tão mais que apenas meio quando nos tiram a razão de viver com a nossa alma-gémea...) e se separaram.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Agora presos nestes sacos de carne, ossos e sangue, estes fragmentos de uma alma lamuriante procuram a peça que os completa numa aventura épica, podendo apenas relembrar-se da sua importante missão quando sonham, revivendo o ataque da força maligna, quando os triviais problemas deste mundo tão estranho já não afogam o seu pensamento.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cada um sofre esta eternidade sem estarem completos, sem estes seus corpos humanos se lembrarem do que é estar para além da vida e da morte, sem saberem que tal estado de harmonia existe. Mas por vezes dois olhares cruzam-se e o sonho encontra a realidade, uma peça encontra a outra, um fragmento de alma sara.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tal já me aconteceu, ver-me a mim em ti e sentir o meu centro responder-te como se fizesses parte de mim... Já me aconteceu acordar de um sonho em que foste tu que me fizeste sorrir e perguntar-me se tal podia ser uma previsão de um agradável futuro...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Frente a frente, os nossos lábios aproximam-se. Sinto-me como se fosse um reencontro há tanto tempo esperado e lágrimas correm-me pelos olhos. Sinto o clique do encaixe de duas imensas e importantíssimas peças quando finalmente nos beijamos, o ajuste de uma alma reparada em rejubílio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O sentimento que nos liga não pode ser consumido pelo tempo, mas também nunca foi criado para lhe obedecer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sei que este mundo é só uma fase: para além do tempo, do sonho e da vigília, o verdadeiro mundo espera-nos.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-4385604689275703982?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/4385604689275703982/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/10/51-kiss-beijo.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/4385604689275703982'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/4385604689275703982'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/10/51-kiss-beijo.html' title='51 KISS | BEIJO'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-545044513840261451</id><published>2009-08-23T16:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-12T10:23:53.694-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life | vida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hope | esperança'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loneliness | solidão'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship | amizade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sadness | tristeza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fanfiction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='goodness | bondade'/><title type='text'>50 FRIENDS | AMIGOS</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://iperyys.net/narucom_sf1.html"&gt;THIS STORY IS BECOMING A DRABBLE BY THE INCREDIBLY TALENTED KOSMONAUTTIHAI | ESTA HISTÓRIA ESTÁ A TRANSFORMAR-SE NUMA BANDA DESENHADA PELA INCRIVELMENTE TALENTOSA TUBARÃO (fêmea) COSMONAUTA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today I remembered one day when we walked together, in a reality so far away from the one of this present that almost seems like another life now, but at the time your words and actions gave me so many railings and crutches to hold onto throughout the difficult task of slicing myself in two and choose the part of me I preferred.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was little before Uchiha left in his stubborn quest, too little after you swept my life meaning from me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The day was pleasantly warm (and not scorching) and the forest that ran beside us provided shade to our steps. The idea of us to walk together was yours, perhaps spurred by the excitement of talking for the first time without the tension of a fight for survival between us, and I think it was precisely that that took me to your village that day, to see you, although those days headache, exhaustion and nigh-despair were my constant companions, from the terrible task of having to repair the humbled tradegy I had become after our battle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wanted to see you, because only you could help me now, because it was from you that my very first help came, and a demon is not controlled by just a great help: it was needed not only constant effort from my part but also the gathering of all the littlest helps I had received from you and my siblings over the time to control Shukaku (to say the least), and for that I had to see you, to learn more, to know if I was in the right path to deserve them (only you could shut up the monster and guide me...).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was surprised to see the happiness flooding you when I knocked on your door and you answered it, happiness that reflected upon your eyes and remained as we walked, and you talked and I listened and replied, and you noticed how different I had become by your actions. Not selfish, but humble, not agressive, but serene, quiet, a student of life, a better person, a person, at last.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know I felt something very different from the rest every time I saw you approved of this change of mine, something pleasant and so familiar, and then I remembered that it was that feeling for which I fought when I was younger and tried to be friendlier with the rest of the children. I remember asking myself if that feeling would last or if I would end up ruining it, I remember Shukaku whispering to me his wish for the realization of the latter, I remember ignoring that wish of his and going on listening to you. I know I thanked you somewhere in that walk, with all honesty, tenderness and strength I could come up with (the tenderness was not much, I hadn't yet learnt anything on how to give it) and that you listened to me in silence, I know what a simple thank you caused in you...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I were so excited in that moment, saying things so amiable that I cannot even remember the exact words now... Compliments to me and promises, you said you helped very little and I was now someone amazingly "cool" to have around, you said that I had nothing to thank you aout because I was now your friend... So many compliments and promises, so many guarantees that I would never feel alone again when no one had ever done that to me before without betraying me... A friend...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You have to understand that it hadn't passed enough time since our battle, I didn't have enough experience outside Shukaku's control... Your words filled me with a dose so huge of that so pleasant feeling that I felt obliged to pay it back... in any possible way... When it was Shukaku the one to make me feel like that, to fill my mind with his voice to keep loneliness at bay, I would pay him with death, every month, during the full moon, and the better the sacrifice, the most savory the blood, the better I would feel, the more Shukaku would treat me like a real Mother...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inside me I knew I had to do you the same, that such was expected from me, to fill your promises and compliments, to grant your friendship. But you thought me that I should protect instead of kill, and because of that I chose to deliver my sacrifice in another way...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You probably didn't even notice how my hand moved, how fast I was to reach for my kunai. For a moment, the weapon in my hand, I hesitated, thought of using it against you, to rip that so contradictory life from your body, because I still believed you would betray me (didn't they all?), but the hesitation lasted only just one moment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the next moment I already had the blade carved on the top of my left hand and a reasonable squirt of blood dripped from the wound. It hurt, it hurt so much, but it didn't matter, it was a necessary pain, just like my soul had hurt everytime I had killed in the name of the sand... I could hear Shukaku's cackles echoing inside my head. It was bizzarre he hadn't stopped the blow... Suspicious... I should have known by then, by that...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I didn't have time to read the shocked expression in your face as I readied for a second strike, but it didn't happen, because you were swift to stop me, your strong hand gripping my wrist. And it was then I looked at you, Shukaku's words now clear: &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;"You are such an idiot..."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A terrible mix of emotions shone in your eyes, I believe you felt panic on that moment, I believe you thought me insane, like anyone else would...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But you aren't anyone else, are you? Even without knowing the ordeals I went through in my mind every day, you always understood me so well, always knew all that hurt me... You called out to me, hesitant, asked me what I was doing...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was confused... Wasn't that what you wanted, a proof of my friendship? I asked you that, but you said no, still scared, not that kind of proof, and I felt so lost, so failed... If you were scared of me, then it was because I had spooked you away, lika all others, and it meant I had lost against Shukaku...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He cackled more inside my head now, of my pittiful efforts, of my foolish mistakes... &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;"You'll always come back to me, I am the only one who wants you..."&lt;/span&gt; Remember that I had become the six-year-old child again then, but now carrying the burden of 300 deaths upon my back, inside my gourd... With the strength our battle gave me, I was able to force Shukaku away from me and restart my fight for the others' recognition, but with this burden, each little mistake cost me more, each little failure made me want to give up so much... (and the demon wouldn't help)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wanted to get away from there, humbled, I didn't want to see you again. If I could, (if I were able to) I would have cried. And perhaps I have... But you still squeezed my wrist and spoke to me again, but this time with something much different from fear guiding you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I-it is him doing this to you, right?" was your simple question. "The monster."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See what I meant? You understand me... I nodded and you went on. "You needn't do any of this to be my friend. Would you have wanted me to do the same to be yours?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Never. A certainty I had since then was that I would never want to see you hurt anymore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Then you understand. It's the same with me..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And it was. It had always been, even if it took us so long to understand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I still didn't get it... I had to give you something, sacrifice something of mine, I couldn't just receive all that tenderness without having to suffer, I couldn't, my life has always been like that...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But you explained me that friends protect each other without any sacrifice. That a person becomes friends with another for the sheer belief, the silly trust that the other will be happy for that, without there being any payment between them. I would only have to sacrifice my sorrow. And you always trusted me to be happy under the shelter of your friendship.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I understood then that Shukaku never was my friend. And I noticed then that he was no longer cackling nor were his words drumming with mock inside my mind. Once again, you had won against him, scared him and silenced him...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the blood now dripped from my hand and another part of Shukaku, the less treacherous and more animalistic, growled with pleasure (better than the blood of the prey is the blood of the predator itself). "Naruto..." then it was my turn to call you, show you my wounded hand, now invaded by the hungry sand. And, sitting under the shade of a tree, you took out a useful first-aid kit and bandaged my hand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I took the chance to thank you (not a sacrifice, but a genuine appreciation for your friendship and constant help, the hope for success even when I was about to give up...)... I told you how you were my guide in this path of probations of mine, of how your teachings scared Shukaku away the first time I had faced him inside my mind and how you still always helped, even then. I didn't tell you at the time, but thought of it, that you were my constant hope for me to still become a good person, at the end of all this, despite all my mistakes and sins (and you still are...).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that time it was you who had trouble dealing with compliments, and I watched you as you blushed and squirmed in discomfort, the thank you so obvious in your gestures but so difficult to expressed when words are so limited and limiting! And I noticed with pleasure that you didn't use them, instead you reached out your hand for me and squeezed my shoulder gently, such a kind gesture of affection, and I made sure to learn how it made me feel and how it was done, in case I needed it. You smiled and perhaps I smiled too (at least I felt like I was smiling...). I hope I did.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While you tended to my wounds in so many ways besides the litteral one, I learnt two things then.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First: we were friends, and it seemed that my admiration for you was a mirror of yours for me. That would silence Shukaku for a long while, the reality that he was no longer the only one...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Second: everytime emotion was bigger than your vocabulary, say, during a particularly emotional goodbye, it was best to resort to physical contact, even if I had to be the one to start it. It seemed I would only need to reach out a hand, and on that day I had learnt to...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lembrei-me hoje de um dia em que caminhámos juntos, numa realidade tão longe da deste presente que quase me parece uma outra vida agora, mas na altura as tuas palavras e acções deram-me tantos corrimãos e muletas para me agarrar, durante a difícil tarefa de partir o meu eu em dois e escolher a parte de mim que queria.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Foi pouco antes de o Uchiha partir na sua obstinada demanda, demasiado pouco depois de tu me teres varrido o meu sentido da vida.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O dia estava agradavelmente quente (e não escaldante) e a floresta que corria ao nosso lado dava sombra aos nossos passos. A ideia de passearmos foi tua, talvez fruto da excitação de falarmos pela primeira vez sem a tensão da luta pela sobrevivência entre nós, e penso que foi precisamente isso que me levou à tua aldeia nesse dia, para te ver, apesar de nesses dias a dor de cabeça, a exaustão e o quase-desespero serem meus companheiros constantes, vindos da terrível tarefa de ter de reparar a humilhada tragédia em que me tornei depois daquele dia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Queria ver-te, porque só tu me podias ajudar agora, porque foi de ti que veio a minha primeiríssima ajuda, e um demónio não se controla só com uma grande ajuda: era preciso não só um esforço constante de mim mas também da acumulação de todas as pequeninas ajudas que fui recolhendo de ti e dos meus irmãos durante esse tempo todo para controlar Shukaku, e para isso tinha de te ver, de aprender mais, de saber que estava no caminho certo de as merecer (só tu calavas o monstro e me guiavas...).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fiquei surpreendido ao ver a felicidade que te inundou quando bati à tua porta e tu atendeste, felicidade essa que se reflectia nos teus olhos e continuou enquanto caminhávamos, e tu falavas e eu ouvia e respondia, e tu reparaste no quão diferente me havia tornado pelas tuas acções. Não egoísta, mas humilde, não agressivo, mas sereno, calado, um estudante da vida, uma pessoa melhor, uma pessoa, aliás.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sei que senti algo muito diferente de tudo o resto sempre que via que aprovavas desta minha mudança, algo agradável e tão familiar, e então lembrei-me que era por esse sentimento que lutava quando era mais jovem e tentava ser amigável para com o resto das crianças. Lembro-me de me perguntar se este sentimento duraria ou se eu acabaria por arruiná-lo, lembro-me de Shukaku me surrurar a sua vontade pela concretização do segundo, lembro-me de ignorar esse seu desejo e de continuar a ouvir-te. Sei que te agradeci algures naquele passeio, com toda a sinceridade, ternura e força que consegui arranjar (a ternura não era muita, ainda não tinha aprendido nada sobre como administrá-la) e que tu me ouviste em silêncio, sei o que um simples obrigado te causou em ti...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ficaste tão entusiasmado nesse momento, dizendo coisas tão amáveis que eu nem consigo recordar-me exactamente das tuas palavras agora... Elogios a mim e promessas, disseste que tu pouco contribuiste e que eu agora era alguém bastante "porreiro" de se ter por perto, disseste que não tinha que agradecer porque eu agora eu era teu amigo... Tantos elogios e promessas, tantas garantias de que nunca mais me sentiria sozinho quando nunca antes ninguém me tinha feito isso sem me trair... Um amigo...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tens de entender que não se tinha passado suficiente tempo desde a nossa batalha, eu não tinha tido experiência suficiente fora do controlo de Shukaku... As tuas palavras encheram-me com uma dose tão grande daquele sentimento tão agradável que eu me senti obrigado a retribuí-lo... de qualquer forma possível... Quando era Shukaku a fazer-me sentir assim, a echer-me a mente com a sua voz para manter a solidão longe, eu pagava-lhe com morte, todos os meses, durante a lua cheia, e quanto melhor fosse o sacrifício, quanto mais saboroso fosse o seu sangue, melhor me sentia, mais Shukaku me trataria como uma verdadeira Mãe...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dentro de mim sabia que tinha de te fazer o mesmo, que era esse o esperado de mim, para dar fundo às tuas promessas e elogios, garantir a tua amizade. Mas tu ensinaste-me que devia proteger e não matar, por isso optei por te entregar o meu sacrifício de outra forma...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nem deves ter reparado em como a minha mão se mexeu, tão rápido fui eu em pegar no meu kunai. Por um momento, a arma na minha mão, hesitei, pensei em usá-lo contra ti, para te arrancar essa vida tão contraditória do corpo, porque ainda pensei que me trairias (não o fizeram todos?), mas a hesitação só demorou mesmo um momento.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No momento seguinte já tinha a lâmina cravada no cimo da minha mão esquerda e um razoável repuxo de sangue escorria pela ferida. Doeu, doeu tanto, mas não interessava, era uma dor necessária, tal como me tinha doído a alma de cada vez que matei em nome da areia... Ouvia as gargalhadas de Shukaku a ecoar-me dentro da cabeça. Foi estranho ele não ter impedido o golpe... Suspeito... Eu já devia ter sabido por isso...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Não tive tempo de ler a expressão de choque na tua cara enquanto me preparava para um segundo golpe, mas este nunca aconteceu, porque tu foste rápido a impedir-me, a tua mão forte no meu pulso. E foi aí que olhei para ti, as palavras de Shukaku agora claras: &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;"És bem idiota..."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uma terrível mistura de emoções brilhava nos teus olhos, creio que sentiste pânico naquele momento, creio que me pensasses louco, como qualquer um pensaria...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas tu não és qualquer um, pois não? Mesmo sem nunca saberes os ordálios que atravessava na minha mente todos os dias, sempre me compreendeste tão bem, sempre soubeste tudo o que me magoava... Chamaste por mim, hesitante, perguntaste-me o que estava a fazer...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estava confuso... Não era isso que querias, uma prova da minha amizade? Perguntei-to, mas tu disseste que não, ainda assustado, não desse tipo de prova, e eu senti-me tão perdido, tão falhado... Se tu tivesses medo de mim, então era porque eu te tinha afastado, como os outros, e isso significado que havia perdido contra Shukaku.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ele ria-se mais na minha cabeça agora, dos meus penosos esforços, dos meus tolos erros... &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;"Hás-de sempre voltar para mim, eu sou o único que te quer..."&lt;/span&gt; Lembra-te que eu tinha voltado a ser a criança de seis anos naquela altura, mas agora carregando o fardo de 300 mortes nas costas... Com a força que a nossa batalha me deu, consegui afastar Shukaku de mim e recomeçar a minha luta pela aceitação dos outros, mas com este fardo, cada pequeno erro me custava mais, cada pequeno falhanço me dava tanta vontade de desistir... (e o demónio não ajudava)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Queria fugir dali, humilhado, não queria voltar a ver-te. Se pudesse, (se conseguisse...) teria chorado. E talvez tenha... Mas ainda apertavas o meu pulso e voltaste a falar-me, mas desta vez com algo muito diferente do medo a guiar-te.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"É-é ele que te faz fazer isto, não é?" foi a tua simples pergunta. "O monstro."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vês o que te digo? Compreendes-me... Acenei e tu continuaste. "Não precisas de fazer nada disto para seres meu amigo. Gostarias que eu fizesse o mesmo para ser teu amigo?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nunca. Uma certeza que tive desde então era que nunca te queria ver mais magoado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Então entendes. É a mesma coisa comigo..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E era mesmo. Sempre foi, mesmo que nos tivesse custado tanto a entender.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas eu ainda não percebia... Eu tinha de te dar algo, sacrificar algo de mim, não podia simplesmente aceitar tanta ternura sem ter de sofrer, não podia, a minha vida sempre foi assim...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas tu explicaste-me que os amigos protegem-se sem querer nenhum sacrifício. Que uma pessoa se torna amiga de outra pela simples crença, a tola confiança de que o outro fica feliz por isso, sem que haja nenhuma paga entre eles. Eu teria de sacrificar a minha tristeza. E tu sempre confiaste em mim para ser feliz sob o abrigo da tua amizade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Entendi então que Shukaku nunca foi meu amigo. E reparei então que ele já não se ria nem as suas palavras ribombavam de gozo na minha mente. Mais uma vez, tu tinha-lo vencido, assustado e calado...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas o sangue agora escorria-me mais pela mão e a outra parte de Shukaku, a menos traiçoeira e mais animalesca, grunhia de prazer (melhor que o sangue da presa, é o sangue do próprio predador). "Naruto..." dessa vez fui eu a chamar-te, a mostrar-te a minha mão ferida. E, sentados à sombra de uma árvore, tu pegaste num útil estojo de pequenos-socorros e ligaste-me a mão.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aproveitei a oportunidade para te agradecer (não um sacríficio, mas um agradecimento genuíno pela tua amizade e pela constante ajuda, a esperança de sucesso mesmo quando estava prestes a desistir...)... Contei-te de como eras mesmo o meu guia neste meu caminho de provações, de como afastaste Shukaku pela primeira vez quando o enfrentei na minha mente e como me continuavas sempre a ajudar, mesmo então. Não te contei na altura, mas pensei-o, que tu eras a minha constante esperança de que eu ainda conseguiria ser uma boa pessoa, no fim de tudo isto, apesar de todos os meus erros e pecados (e ainda és...).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E dessa vez foste tu quem teve problemas a lidar com elogios, e eu observei como coraste e te moveste em desconforto, o agradecimento tão óbvio nos teus gestos mas tão díficil de exprimir quando as palavras são tão limitadas e limitantes! E notei com prazer que não as usaste, em vez disso estendeste uma mão para mim e apertaste-me o ombro com gentileza, um gesto de afeição tão meigo, e eu fiz questão de aprender como me fez sentir e como o fazer, caso o precisasse. Sorriste e eu talvez tenha sorrido também (pelo menos senti-me com um sorriso...).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enquanto tratavas das minhas feridas em tantas maneiras para além da literal, aprendi então duas coisas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Primeiro: éramos amigos, e pelos vistos a minha admiração por ti era um espelho da tua por mim. Isso calaria Shukaku durante algum tempo, a realidade de que ele já não era o único...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Segundo: sempre que a emoção fosse maior que o teu vocabulário, digamos, numa despedida particularmente sentimental, era melhor recorrer ao contacto físico, nem que tivesse de ser eu a começá-lo. Pelos vistos, só seria mesmo preciso estender uma mão, e eu naquele dia aprendi a fazê-lo...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-545044513840261451?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/545044513840261451/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/08/50-friends-amigos.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/545044513840261451'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/545044513840261451'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/08/50-friends-amigos.html' title='50 FRIENDS | AMIGOS'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-3419180831942362510</id><published>2009-08-15T06:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-15T06:26:19.010-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life | vida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fanfiction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soulmates | almas gémeas'/><title type='text'>49 JAI HO</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="340" height="285"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Z32SCbI4dNU&amp;hl=pt-br&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999&amp;border=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Z32SCbI4dNU&amp;hl=pt-br&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="340" height="285"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't know for sure how it is for you, but I notice that for me it is the small things that make me smile the most.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(And doesn't it make sense? Since I've lived for such a long time without a hand on my shoulder to comfort me, a nice word on my ear to motivate me, without a hug throughout my whole body to cheer me up, now every gesture you give me, even the smallest, spreads happiness over me like a burst of light spreads all over a completely dark room.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Small things, and maybe without much meaning, if I really think about it, things that are even a bit silly, tacky or sappy, but it's those small things, those small gifts from an uncertain destiny that give me one more reason to love you and call you my own, and to give myself to you completely, that make me see that all universe really approves of this connection that has grown between us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's, for example, when we are at your place in front of the stereo and that song begins, cheerful, warm and rhythmic, and, while we dance together in time with it, trying to come up with new moves to shine at the next ANBU party, all of a sudden I hear your name in another exotic language and I look at you, and just your name in a song reminds me that my world is perfect now, now that your name exists and someone remembered to use it in a song...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I stop dancing just to hold you against me and feel you, may the owner of this name claim me for himself and for ever, that would be my greatest joy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Later you tell me that actually the singer did not say your name, he said a very similar word, but actually that word can be funnily translated to the black kohl around the eyes and some black seductive magic associated with it, and that makes me equally happy, even though it did not change a thing...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To me, the song is about you, your beauty and how my world is so much better ever since I forced you inside it. It's an invitation for you to celebrate with me what we have every day, and the black magic of the black (even if fake) kohl around your eyes is welcome as well...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's probably silly because it's just a word in a song, the smallest thing that makes no sense at all...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But it makes me so happy to know that even in the silliest things we are perfect together, and the magnificent smile that paints those delectable lips of yours now makes me know that you agree completely with me...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Não sei ao certo como é contigo, mas noto que para mim são as pequenas coisas que mais me fazem sorrir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(E não faz sentido? Como vivi durante tanto tempo sem uma mão no ombro para me confortar, uma palavra simpática no ouvido para me motivar, sem um abraço pelo corpo todo para me alegrar, agora cada gesto que me dás, mesmo o mais pequeno, espalha felicidade por mim como uma explosão de luz se espalha por um quarto completamente escuro.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Coisas pequenas, e talvez sem grande significado, se pensar nisso realmente, coisas até um pouco patetas, parolas ou lamechas, mas são essas pequenas coisas, essas pequenas prendas do destino incerto que me dão mais uma razão para te amar e te considerar meu, e de me dar a ti completamente, que me fazem ver que todo o universo está mesmo de acordo com a ligação que cresceu entre nós.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;É, por exemplo, quando estamos em tua casa em frente à aparelhagem e aquela música começa, alegre, quente e mexida, e, enquanto dançamos juntos ao seu ritmo, tentando arranjar passos novos para brilharmos na próxima festa de ANBUs, de repente ouço o teu nome dito numa outra língua exótica no meio do ritmo e olho para ti, e só o teu nome numa música faz-me lembrar que o meu mundo é perfeito agora, agora que o teu nome existe e alguém se lembrou de o usar numa música...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Páro de dançar apenas para te apertar contra mim e sentir-te, que o dono desse nome me reclame para si e para sempre, essa seria a minha maior alegria!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mais tarde dizes-me que na verdade o cantor não proferiu o teu nome, antes uma palavra muito parecida, mas realmente é uma tradução engraçada à sombra dos olhos preta e magia negra e sedutora associada, e isso faz-me igualmente feliz, apesar de não alterar nada...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para mim, a canção é sobre ti, a tua beleza e de como o meu mundo é tão melhor desde que eu te forcei a entrar nele. É um convite para que celebres comigo isto que temos todos os dias, e a magia negra da sombra (ainda que falsa) dos teus olhos também pode vir...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;É talvez tolo porque é só uma palavra numa canção, uma pequeníssima coisa sem sentido nenhum...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas faz-me tão feliz saber que até nas coisas tolas somos perfeitos juntos, e o sorriso magnífico que te pinta esses lábios tão tentadores agora faz-me saber que concordas plenamente comigo...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-3419180831942362510?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/3419180831942362510/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/08/49-jai-ho.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/3419180831942362510'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/3419180831942362510'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/08/49-jai-ho.html' title='49 JAI HO'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-8292816206902187478</id><published>2009-08-14T04:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-14T04:53:27.693-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hope | esperança'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dream | sonho'/><title type='text'>48 PHANTOM PHOTOGRAPH | FOTOGRAFIA FANTASMA</title><content type='html'>Click.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A small burst of light escapes from the small device and the scenery in front of it was forever (or, at least, for as long as said device survives) saved in a matrix of zeroes and ones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The boy has been taking photographs of everything, because all around him appears to his eyes as an extrordinary phenomenon, incredible, most of the times even unbelievable or impossible. Look, that statue has winked at me! I thought only I had imagined a creature shaped like this, but here is a perfect representation of it, built by someone else... Wow, I didn't know this movie had come out, or that book ahead!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These sentences and others run through his mind and even escape his mouth while more beautifull surprises are gathered in the archive of his camera, and the boy can't wait to show all that to his friends... If he hadn't had the photos as evidence, they would never believe it was true, that's why he's so happy he remembered to bring the device with him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But all of a sudden a repetitive and annoying sound comes closer from far away and in the next moment the boy's ears are full of it, as well as his mind, and the stage of so many marvellous miracles dissolves in front of his eyes to turn into the boring and dark shape of his bedroom, of the bed he had been laying on all along...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All was a dream, and while the boy turns off his cellphone's alarm with a furious hand gesture, infinite disappointment fills the blank left by the annoying sound immediately gone. He should have known it from the beginning... To be sure, he takes his cold and inert camera from his bedside table and runs over the list of pictures he has captures, seeing in none of them a single trace of the objects that fascinated him so...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If there's no photograph, there is no evidence, and if there is no evidence, it isn't real... But, if it is like that, why the hell did he bother taking pictures in his dream?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can exist, even not being real...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What a bunch of nonsense... But deep down he still believes he'll be able to see those photos once more... if he could only find the unreal camera...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dreams are plans man can make real when he's awake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clique.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uma pequena explosão de luz escapou-se do pequeno aparelho e o cenário à sua frente foi para sempre (ou, pelo menos, enquanto o tal aparelho sobreviver) guardado numa matriz de zeros e uns.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O rapaz tem estado a tirar fotografias de tudo, pois tudo à sua volta figura-se-lhe aos olhos como um fenómeno extraordinário, incrível, da maior parte das vezes até mesmo inacreditável ou impossível. Olha, aquela estátua piscou-me o olho! Pensei que só eu tinha imaginado uma criatura com esta forma, mas aqui está uma perfeita representação dela, construída por outro alguém... Uau, não sabia que já tinha saído este filme, ou aquele livro mais à frente!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estas frases e outras correm-lhe pelo pensamento e chegam mesmo a escapar-se-lhe da boca enquanto mais belas surpresas se acumulam no arquivo da sua máquina fotográfica, e o rapaz mal pode esperar para mostrar tudo aquilo aos seus amigos... Se ele não tivesse as fotografias como prova, eles nunca acreditariam que era verdade, por isso ele está feliz por se ter lembrado de trazer o aparelho consigo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas de um momento para o outro um som repetitivo e irritante aproxima-se vindo de muito longe e no momento seguinte os ouvidos do rapaz ficam cheios dele, assim como a sua mente, e o palco de tantos maravilhosos milagres dissolve-se à frente dos seus olhos para se tranformar na aborrecida e escura forma do seu quarto, da cama onde sempre esteve deitado...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tudo foi um sonho, e enquanto o rapaz desliga o alarme do seu telemóvel com um gesto de mão furioso, uma infinita desilusão ocupa o espaço vazio deixado pelo som irritante que imediatamente cessou. Ele já devia ter sabido isso desde o início... Pare se certificar, pega na máquina fotográfica fria e inerte sobre a mesinha de cabeceira e percorre a lista das imagens que já capturou, vendo em nenhuma delas um único traço dos objectos que o fascinaram tanto...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se não há fotografia, não há provas, e se não há provas, não é real... Mas, se assim é, por que diabo se deu ele ao trabalho de tirar fotografias no seu sonho?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pode existir, mesmo não sendo real...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Que tolice pegada... Mas lá no fundo ele ainda acredita que será capaz de reaver essas fotografias... se conseguir encontrar a máquina não real...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sonhos são planos que o homem pode concretizar quando está acordado.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-8292816206902187478?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/8292816206902187478/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/08/48-phantom-photograph-fotografia.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/8292816206902187478'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/8292816206902187478'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/08/48-phantom-photograph-fotografia.html' title='48 PHANTOM PHOTOGRAPH | FOTOGRAFIA FANTASMA'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-693904488717610100</id><published>2009-08-13T11:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-13T11:36:58.762-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life | vida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hope | esperança'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hero | herói'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dream | sonho'/><title type='text'>47 GODS AND HUMANS | DEUSES E HUMANOS</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;"Swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human..."&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;~ Lateralus - TOOL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.neilgaiman.com/works/Books/American+Gods/"&gt;Inspiration came from here | Inspiração veio daqui&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have a thought that is pacing around in circles, restlessly, in that transitory area of the mind we all have, in which we end up deciding if we want to send the thought and its steps away or if we want it to reach deeper, until it is finally a part of us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And this thought is almost at that point, putting all of us in the same level as gods.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This idea echoes in its steps:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only source of vitality for the gods, of all divine entities (perhaps) created by human mind's need(, perhaps by something more), is the belief we, humans, have in them. One single thought of strength sent their way turns into a miracle by their hands, one single ritual performed from the depth of the heart feeds their hunger with satisfaction for weeks, one life dedicated to adore them makes them live forever. Immaterial, the gods can't sustain themselves if their ideals are not preserved (for what other matter do they have in themselves to survive?), if all the stories created about them no longer live in the minds of their creators. The gods create men so that men can recreate their gods every day. One mistake in this cycle and the last trace of their presence disappears from human memory, and the god itself vanishes irreversibly, along with all the artificial feats that were imposed on him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Man is, therefore, much different from the gods he makes by his image. Being body besides mind, man exists even if that existence is not accepted or known by others, he walks across the land, thinks, feels, eats and sleeps even if no one believes in him or invests its thought on him. Better still, while the gods need to always accept the feats, choices and characteristics men invented for them and give to them without asking their opinion (has anyone ever asked the Devil if he really wanted to reign over Hell? And does Shiva really feel comfortable with having six arms to manage?), man has the freedom to create his own choices, characteristics and feats and to make them memorable, has the power of leaving oblivion using something that is purely his and not forced by anyone, not depending on anyone else besides himself to build the imortality-generating belief that the gods envy so much. And it is true that time will consume his body and will scatter his matter to create other lives, other stories, but the feats that man created for himself will remain, and at least he would always be able to promise that all of them are truly his, every time the words that describe them rush out between the lips of a mother lulling her son to sleep...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Poor are the gods, begging humanity for a moment of recognition, that they'll spend living a life that isn't even theirs...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lucky are men, that despite the suffering and ephemerity to them fated can always fight for their own legacy, a gift they'll leave for the future and will always be useful for at least one more person...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The thought stopped pacing around, it found its entry door. Now it whispers motivation at my ear, that I grasp and will transform into my own legacy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And, although I can't see them or don't know them individually, I believe in all the gods that have created this moment. I belive that just like men could catch some of their divinity, so can they find a part of our humanity, and like that balance will be restored.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tenho um pensamento que me anda em círculos, sem descanso, naquela zona da mente transitória que todos temos, em que acabamos por decidir se queremos mandar o pensamento mais os seus passos embora ou se o queremos deixar chegar mais fundo, até finalmente fazer parte de nós.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E este pensamento está quase a chegar a esse ponto, pondo-nos a todos nós a um nível igual aos dos deuses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esta ideia ecoa nos seus passos:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A única fonte vital dos deuses, de todas as entidades divinas criadas (talvez) pela necessidade da mente humana(, talvez por algo mais), é a crença que nós, humanos, temos neles. Um único pensamento de força enviado para eles tranforma-se num milagre sobre as suas mãos, um único ritual realizado do fundo do coração enche-lhes a barriga de satisfação durante semanas, uma vida dedicada à sua adoração fá-los viverem para sempre. Imateriais, os deuses não se sustentam se os seus ideais não forem preservados (pois que outra matéria têm em si para sobreviver?), se todas as histórias criadas sobre eles não viverem ainda nas mentes dos seus criadores. Os deuses criam os homens para que os homens recriem os deuses todos os dias. Um erro neste ciclo e o último traço da sua presença desaparece da memória humana, e o próprio deus se desvanece irremediavelmente, assim como todos os feitos artificiais que lhe foram impingidos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O homem é, assim, muito diferente dos deuses que molda à sua imagem. Sendo corpo para além da mente, o homem existe mesmo que essa existência não seja aceite ou conhecida por outros, caminha pela terra, pensa, sente, come e dorme mesmo que ninguém acredite nele ou nele invista o seu pensamento. Melhor ainda, ao contrário dos deuses que têm de aceitar sempre os feitos e as escolhas e as características que os homens lhes inventam e atribuem sem lhes pedir a sua opinião (alguém alguma vez perguntou ao Diabo se queria mesmo reinar o Inferno? E será que Shiva se sente mesmo confortável com seis braços para coordenar?), o homem tem a liberdade de criar as suas próprias escolhas, características e feitos e de os tornar memoráveis, tem o poder de sair do esquecimento usando algo que é puramente seu e não forçado por ninguém, não dependendo de mais ninguém senão ele próprio para construir a crença geradora de imortalidade que os deuses tanto cobiçam. E é verdade que o tempo consumirá o seu corpo e espalhará a sua matéria para criar outras vidas, outras histórias, mas os feitos que o homem criou para si permanecerão, e pelo menos ele poderia sempre prometer que todos eles são verdadeiramente seus sempre que as palavras que os descrevem se escaparem por entre os lábios de uma mãe a tentar adormecer o seu filho...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pobres dos deuses, palmilhando a humanidade por um momento de reconhecimento, momento esse que gastarão para viver uma vida que não é a deles...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sortudos dos homens, que apesar do sofrimento e da brevidade a eles destinada podem sempre lutar pelo seu próprio legado, presente esse que deixarão ao futuro e que há-de sempre ser útil a pelo menos mais uma pessoa...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O pensamento parou de circular, encontrou a sua porta de entrada. Agora murmura-me motivação ao ouvido, que eu agarro e hei-de transformar no meu próprio legado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E, apesar de os não ver ou não os conhecer individualmente, acredito em todos os deuses que criaram este momento. Acredito que tal como os homens conseguiram agarrar um pouco da divindade deles, também eles encontrarão um pouco da nossa humanidade, e assim o equilíbrio será reposto.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-693904488717610100?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/693904488717610100/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/08/47-gods-and-humans-deuses-e-humanos.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/693904488717610100'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/693904488717610100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/08/47-gods-and-humans-deuses-e-humanos.html' title='47 GODS AND HUMANS | DEUSES E HUMANOS'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-4342614054984693907</id><published>2009-08-02T16:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-02T16:49:50.596-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life | vida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hope | esperança'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loneliness | solidão'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><title type='text'>46 DUST | PÓ</title><content type='html'>When I think nothing else connects me to the rest of the world, I look around and find yet another unavoidably assuring detail, yet another pleasantly agreeable surprise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This time I have picked up a small speck of dust from the tip of my nose and, maybe from lack of other things to do, I have analized it, and in the middle of my innocent and unworried observation I have asked myself where that speck had come from, for how long it could admit to itself it existed, from how far did it come.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cientist once said that nothing in this universe appears or vanishes, all is in endless change, and the same certainly happened with this speck.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did it witness to the beginning of the Universe from the front row, did it belong to the Sun when our star let out his first and explosive sigh, did it swim across the primordial soup as life became its neighbor, what adventures has it lived, what stories does it have to tell?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now it is on the tip of my nose, connecting me to all these stories, including me in this marvellous chain...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just because of that I already feel less lonely... Just because I found a speck of dust on the tip of my nose and remembered to think about it...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quando penso que mais nada me liga a todo o resto do mundo, olho à volta e descubro outro pormenor irremediavelmente corroborador, outra surpresa agradavelmente concordante.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Desta vez apanhei uma partícula de pó da ponta do meu nariz e, talvez por falta de mais que fazer, analisei-a, e no meio da minha observação inocente e despreocupada perguntei-me de onde terá vindo aquela partícula, há quanto tempo podia considerar que existia, qual o imenso caminho que já percorreu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Já o cientista dizia que nada neste universo surge ou se desvanece, tudo está em constante mudança, e o mesmo aconteceu de certeza com esta partícula.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Terá assistido ao aparecimento do Universo da primeira fila, terá feito parte do Sol quando este deu o seu primeiro explosivo suspiro, terá nadado pela sopa primordial enquanto a vida era sua vizinha, que aventuras terá vivido, que histórias terá para contar?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E agora está na ponta do meu nariz, ligando-me a todas essas histórias, incluindo-me nesta cadeia maravilhosa...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Só por isso me sinto menos sozinha... Só porque encontrei uma partícula de pó na ponta do meu nariz e lembrei-me de pensar nela...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-4342614054984693907?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/4342614054984693907/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/08/46-dust-po.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/4342614054984693907'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/4342614054984693907'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/08/46-dust-po.html' title='46 DUST | PÓ'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-448417902984800404</id><published>2009-08-01T03:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-01T04:21:23.873-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hope | esperança'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loneliness | solidão'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hero | herói'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dream | sonho'/><title type='text'>45 THE LIFT | O ELEVADOR</title><content type='html'>Stitched onto the guilty wall, disguised as innocent by a light and refreshing paint, is a device that becomes so useful in this type of buildings, massive malls, even when in these there is so much more than meets the eye... The lift opens its metallic doors with a small cheerful noise to the people who have called it, while its twin, far away, collects others, taking them to their destination.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But something extremely peculiar happens when the twins are side by side and collect people of equal ambition in two separate groups, with equal wanted destinations. I'll see you later, I tell my companions who go to the other lift, third floor, don't forget... If we were less, we would all fit in the same lift.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They agree and enter theirs, me and the others enter ours. On both sides of the wall that separates us, the button with the number three is pressed, with the same will, the same conviction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But when our lift opens once more and leaves us almost with a bow in the place we requested, no matter how much we wait, the other one doesn't bring our companions back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First we wait more, maybe they pressed the wrong button. Then we call security, the worry is too much. Finally we try to call them, is this some kind of practical joke? But nothing works...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I sit on a nearby bench and wait. I look at the shop windows ahead me to distract myself, I study the strangers surrounding me, worried. But the peeks of something lurking on the corner of my eyes appear as specters, and I ignore them for my sanity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I take a deep breath, I slowly let the air leave my lungs. But the scent I detect, even though I don't recognize it, like some kind of panic hormone, ticks off all my alarms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I feel this problem is just the beginning, I see that many other situations will lend me their adrenaline before I see my friends again... This place that seems to breathe normality is about to burst with horror.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where did I get myself into? In this house of mystery, the lifts are just the entry gates...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cravado na culpada parede, disfarçada de inocente por uma pintura leve e refrescante, está um aparelho que se torna tão útil neste tipo de edíficios, massivos centros comerciais, mesmo quando nestes há muito mais para se saber do que está à vista... O elevador abre as suas portas metálicas com um pequeno e alegre som às pessoas que o chamaram, enquanto o seu gémeo, lá longe, recolhe outras, levando-as ao seu destino.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas algo de uma extrema peculiaridade acontece quando os gémeos estão lado a lado e recolhem pessoas de igual ambição em dois grupos, com iguais destinos pretendidos. Vejo-vos mais tarde, digo aos meus companheiros que seguem no outro elevador, terceiro andar, não se esqueçam... Se fôssemos menos caberíamos todos no mesmo elevador.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eles concordam e entram no deles, eu e os outros entramos no nosso. Dos dois lados da parede que nos separam, o botão com o número três é premido, com a mesma vontade, a mesma convicção.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas quando o nosso elevador abre novamente e deixa-nos quase com uma vénia no local que pedimos, por mais que esperemos, o outro não nos traz de volta os nossos companheiros.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Primeiro esperamos mais, talvez se tenham enganado. Depois chamamos os seguranças, a preocupação é demasiada. Finalmente tentamos telefonar-lhes, será isto uma partida deles? Mas nada resulta...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sento-me num banco e espero. Olho as montras à minha frente para me distrair, estudo as pessoas desconhecidas que me rodeiam, preocupada. Mas os relances de algo nos limites do meu alcance de vista aparecem como espectros, e eu ignoro-os pela minha sanidade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Respiro fundo, lentamente deixo o ar sair-me dos pulmões. Mas o aroma que capto, apesar de não o reconhecer, como uma qualquer hormona de pânico, deixa-me alarmada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sinto que este problema é só o início, vejo que ainda muitas situações me emprestarão a sua adrenalina antes de voltar a ver os meus amigos... Este local que parece respirar normalidade está prestes a explodir de terror.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Onde fui eu meter-me? Nesta casa de mistério, os elevadores são apenas os portões de entrada...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-448417902984800404?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/448417902984800404/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/08/45-lift-o-elevador.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/448417902984800404'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/448417902984800404'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/08/45-lift-o-elevador.html' title='45 THE LIFT | O ELEVADOR'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-9063968199410806283</id><published>2009-07-07T13:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-07T13:20:44.760-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life | vida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fanfiction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soulmates | almas gémeas'/><title type='text'>44 TO LOVE AND TO BE LOVED | AMAR E SER AMADO</title><content type='html'>Sometimes when we are at your house at night, after one other night spent sleeplessly and inside a bubble of sweet lust, after a morning of lazyness and an afternoon filled with walks and glutton meals, I like sitting on your couch in an overwhelming harmony and have you this close, while the movie you chose to rent this time runs its plot by the old television.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If already naturally horror movies have no effect on me, then inside the shelter of amber, sun, blue and whiskers that surrounds me even less. You're the one to worry me, the spirits that torment the young lady trapped inside the television seem to be hurting you too, proof of that is the tremor I feel all around me, coming from you and your irrational fear. In lack of better remedy, I smile discrete and somewhat perversely. If I will take anything good from this, it'll be the fact that this night will be spent sleeplessly as well: after all I will have a small fox to calm down and please. I want to protect you from all that upsets you, even if what upsets you are fictional ghouls.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, before these previsions become reality, right after the end of the movie, there is something you do to me that no longer surprises me but that will always melt my heart to caramel. Slow but progressively, the weight of your body is no longer all around me to be set right on top of me, and in the same needy way your arms pull me to you, your head finds rest over the stoic beating of my heart and your lips murmur these simple words: "Ghosts are coming to take me. Cuddle with me, protect me..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And suddenly all of me reacts with an emotion I cannot define, all of me lives to satisfy that simple wish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, really, the explanation of this phenomenon is actually quite simple...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One thing is for me to want to protect you and care for you, one completely different thing is for you to want me to protect you and care for you. I've always known that I wanted to be loved, I've always thought the biggest prize from what we have would be that same love I'd get from you. But I was wrong...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is a great prize, do not get me wrong, but there is another just as great as that one...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's to know that you long for every touch of my fingers over the wheat fields of your hair, that you tremble with every kiss I lay upon the smirk of your lips, that you fantasize over each felt word with which I invade your senses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's to know that you will miss me even before the moment I cross that door to leave, to know that you trust me to return and resume the honorable task of always keeping you happy and satisfied, to know that I can always touch you, talk to you, love you, because you will always be hoping for more from me...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More than knowing that I am loved, it is to know that my love is what you want the most, it is to know that all that I am is worth so much to the person who saved my life in so many ways... (including the literal one)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Am I sadistic for thinking like this, for being so happy over the power I have on you? All my life I dreamt of something like this, so I apologize if I am, because I do not regret it, nor is your trust misplaced...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I protect you from the ghosts of this cruel world, because that mission was only on me placed and because I would not want anyone else to have it but me...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You know how I feel, as I squeeze you in my arms, I can tell, by the peace in your face, the bliss in your lips.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I know how you feel, now it is so clear to me...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We will be like this forever, I am sure of that...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The unhappiness in our lives is over, the crisis after crisis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love and am loved, fuck all rest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por vezes quando estamos em tua casa à noite, após uma outra noite passada em branco e dentro de uma bolha de doce luxúria, uma manhã de preguiça e de uma tarde preenchida com passeios e refeições gulosas, gosto de me sentar numa harmonia inultrapassável no teu sofá e ter-te assim tão perto, enquanto o filme que escolheste alugar desta vez corre o seu enredo pela velha televisão.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se já naturalmente os filmes de terror nenhum efeito têm em mim, então com o abrigo de âmbar, sol, azul e bigodes que me rodeia, muito menos. Tu é que me preocupas, os espíritos que atormentam a jovem presa na televisão parecem estar a magoar-te a ti também, prova disso é o tremor que sinto por todo o lado, vindo de ti e do teu irracional medo. À falta de melhor remédio, sorrio discretamente e algo perversamente. Se algo de bom vou tirar daqui é o facto de esta noite ir ser passada em branco também: afinal tenho um raposo assustado para apaziguar e aprazer. Quero proteger-te de tudo o que te aflige, mesmo que o que te aflija sejam espectros fictícios.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Porém, antes de tais previsões se tornarem realidade, logo a seguir ao final do filme, há algo que tu me fazes que já não me surpreende mas que me há-de sempre transformar o coração em caramelo. Lenta mas progressivamente, o peso do teu corpo deixa de estar à minha volta para se colocar em cima de mim, e da mesma necessitada forma os teus braços puxam-me para ti, a tua cabeça encontra descanso sobre o meu estoico bater do coração e os teus lábios murmuram estas simples palavras: "Os fantasmas vêm aí para me levar. Dá-me mimos, protege-me..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E de repente todo eu reajo com uma emoção que não sei definir, todo eu vivo para satisfazer esse simples pedido.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas, realmente, a explicação para este fenómeno é muito simples...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uma coisa é eu querer proteger-te e acarinhar-te, mas outra completamente diferente é tu quereres que eu te proteja e acarinhe. Sempre soube que queria ser amado, sempre pensei que o maior prémio disto que temos era esse mesmo amor que receberia de ti. Mas enganei-me...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;É um grande prémio, não penses mal, mas há outro exactamente tão bom como esse...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;É o saber que desejas cada toque dos meus dedos sobre o trigo do teu cabelo, que vibras com cada beijo que deixo sobre o sorriso dos teus lábios, que fantasias com cada sentida palavra com que te invado os sentidos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;É o saber que terás saudades minhas mesmo antes do momento que atravessar aquela porta, o saber que confias em mim para regressar e retomar a honorável tarefa de te manter feliz e satisfeito, o saber que posso sempre tocar-te, falar-te, amar-te, porque tu estarás sempre à espera de mais de mim...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mais do que saber que sou amado, é o saber que amo e que o meu amor é o que tu mais queres, é o saber que tudo o que sou vale assim tanto para a pessoa que me salvou a vida de tantas formas...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Serei sádico por pensar assim, por ficar tão feliz com o poder que tenho sobre ti? Toda a minha vida sonhei com algo assim, por isso peço desculpa se sou, porque não me arrependo, nem a tua confiança foi mal colocada...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Protejo-te dos fantasmas deste mundo cruel, porque essa missão foi apenas em mim colocada e porque não quereria que mais ninguém a tivesse senão eu...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sabes o que sinto, enquanto te aperto nos meus braços, sei que sim, pela paz do teu rosto, a felicidade dos teus lábios...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E eu sei o que sentes, agora é-me tão claro...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Havemos de estar assim para sempre, estou certo disso...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Acabou-se a infelicidade nas nossas vidas, as crises e mais crises.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amo e sou amado, o resto que se foda.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-9063968199410806283?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/9063968199410806283/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/07/44-to-love-and-to-be-loved-amar-e-ser.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/9063968199410806283'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/9063968199410806283'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/07/44-to-love-and-to-be-loved-amar-e-ser.html' title='44 TO LOVE AND TO BE LOVED | AMAR E SER AMADO'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-7187944826230752823</id><published>2009-07-06T15:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-08T16:31:07.520-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life | vida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beauty | beleza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship | amizade'/><title type='text'>43 SECOND CHANCE GRANTED | SEGUNDA OPORTUNIDADE DADA</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/SlUr9ZFQ6tI/AAAAAAAAAAw/BHgEVxptDqI/s1600-h/Sasucake.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/SlUr9ZFQ6tI/AAAAAAAAAAw/BHgEVxptDqI/s320/Sasucake.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356235665532054226" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think I've finally understood my mistake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've always tried to approach you through a stretched out hand, an amiable smile, words of comfort, but all that is wrong... What can you see in the strange human behavior other than more reasons to distrust me, other than more weird rituals that deepen the abyss between us? No, I cannot approach you like that, now I understand... To gain your friendship, I must communicate with you, I must embrave the wild side that lives within me to become like you and that way I can talk to you. Sometimes you need to take a step back to leap forward...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deprived of all that makes me human, I fall to my knees and hands and face you with no fear. In this moment we are two equally capable predators in confrontation, and the glint in our eyes shows already that we are talking, in the ancient and infallible language of instinct, of natural strength, of the occult connection we share.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fight begins, savage and dedicated but harmless, an insistent but curious chase, a brutal yet clear conversation. Our muscles tense with each movement, yours more defined than mine, our hearts beat with excitement before this magnificent challenge, all that is us, raw and pure, connects through this ancient ritual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While we fight, we understand our strengths and weaknesses, our strategies and our purposes, what we protect and what we leave behind. Two beings can only truly know each other when they are faced in battle and stake everything they believe in, they only understand all that is the other when they feel their animal force, their energy that motivates them affecting us. Not through tedious conversations or lazy walks. Only through the moments of most effort and devotion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that I have found the animal in my, I can understand you, and in the end of this confrontation with no losers but only winners I know I have gained your trust.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It wasn't difficult and I haven't lost anything that was me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was just reminded that I am too raw force and natural instinct, and with that now I follow this new path by your side.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Julgo que finalmente entendi o meu erro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sempre tentei chegar-me a ti através de uma mão estendida, um sorriso amigável, palavras de conforto, mas tudo isso está errado... Que vês tu nos estranhos comportamentos humanos senão mais razões para desconfiares de mim, senão mais estranhos rituais que aprofundam o fosso entre nós? Não, não posso chegar a ti assim, agora entendo... Para ganhar a tua amizade, tenho de comunicar contigo, tenho de abraçar o lado selvagem que vive em mim para me tornar como tu e assim conversarmos. Por vezes é preciso dar um passo atrás para saltar em frente...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Desprovida de tudo o que me torna humana, ponho-me de gatas e enfrento-te sem receios. Neste momento somos dois predadores igualmente dotados em confronto, e o brilho nos nossos olhos já mostra que conversamos, na linguagem antiga e infalível do instinto, da força natural, da ligação oculta que partilhamos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A luta começa, selvagem e dedicada mas inofensiva, uma perseguição insistente mas curiosa, uma conversa brutal mas clara. Os nossos músculos flectem com cada movimento, os teus mais definidos que os meus, os nossos corações batem de excitação perante este magnífico desafio, tudo o que somos nós, em bruto e puro, liga-se através de este ritual antigo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enquanto lutamos, compreendemos as nossas forças e fraquezas, as nossas estratégias e os nossos objectivos, aquilo que protegemos e o que deixamos para trás. Dois seres só se conhecem verdadeiramente quando se enfrentam em batalha e colocam tudo no qual acreditam em risco, só entendem o tudo que é o outro quando sentem a sua força animal, a sua energia que os motiva a afectarnos. Não através de conversas entediantes e passeios preguiçosos. Só através dos momentos de maior esforço e devoção.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Agora que encontrei o animal em mim, consigo compreender-te, e no fim deste confronto sem vencidos mas apenas vencedores sei que ganhei a tua confiança.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Não foi difícil nem perdi nada do que sou.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apenas me lembrei que sou também força bruta e instinto natural, e com isso agora sigo este novo caminho a teu lado.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-7187944826230752823?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/7187944826230752823/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/07/43-second-chance-granted-segunda.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link 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width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-1695929939052615955</id><published>2009-07-01T14:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-01T14:31:51.889-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life | vida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><title type='text'>42 EMBRACE THE UNKNOWN | ABRAÇAR O DESCONHECIDO</title><content type='html'>Children are extraordinaire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While adults run away from what they don't know and live their lives in fear and loneliness, children embrace the unknown and connect to it, eventually living an existence of understanding care.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There has to be a way to keep this trait with time, to keep the child in your heart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Otherwise, how can six billion people ever achieve true happiness?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As crianças são extraordinárias.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enquanto os adultos fogem do que não conhecem e vivem as suas vidas com medo e solidão, as crianças abraçam o desconhecido e ligam-se a ele, eventualmente vivendo uma existência de carinho entendedor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tem de haver uma maneira de manter este traço com o tempo, de manter a criança no nosso coração.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De que outra forma é que seis biliões de pessoas conseguem atingir a verdadeira felicidade?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-1695929939052615955?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/1695929939052615955/comments/default' title='Enviar 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src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-8491787071764755494</id><published>2009-06-25T16:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-25T16:12:17.460-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life | vida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fanfiction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soulmates | almas gémeas'/><title type='text'>41 LOBSTER | LAGOSTA</title><content type='html'>I needed a romantic context to approach you, at least one that was more original than the ones I have been using and, innocently, I came to the person who was the least adequate to advise me in that. I know that Sasuke has been more agreeable and amiable since he returned, but even so I should have known better...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Very diligently, he told me that lovers tend to be more worried and loving when their partner is with some sort of health problem. For example, if I were to get a huge sunburn, it would be very likely that you would want to spread cream all over my body and, unfortunately, the idea was too tempting since the very beginning, and I saw myself making an extraordinarely excentric plan work...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My skin is not very white, to burn it under the influence of the sun was a difficult task, more difficult than it would be to you (besides, many times already have I wondered how your skin isn't always sunburnt, victim of the desert light). But I executed this mission with such perfection that all the surface of my body became a painful and red film, that cracked and hurt everytime I moved, and it was with a lot of effort that I was able to reach you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But one single fact was enough to render all my plan useless. Looking at you through a grimace of discomfort, I saw that your pose, expression and movements were somewhat altered too, and that your skin shone with the crimson force of a fire. You too had gotten a sunburn, a huge sunburn that affected you whole.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course Sasuke's words were correct. As soon as we realized the state we were in, we ran to each other and our voices showed our worries and care, but there was nothing we could do: just moving hurt, it would hurt even more the simple (even if) loving touch we'd share.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now we suffer the effects of the cream, yes. But we weren't the ones to apply it on each other, no. There's a wicked glint on Sasuke's eyes and grin as he rubs our skins almost with pleasure, after all this was his secret plan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I look at you. Your blushed and ivory skin enchants me alone. What a cruel torture! To have you all covered in cream and delicious, so close to me yet so far from my touch!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Precisava de um contexto romântico para me aproximar de ti, pelo menos um mais original que os que tenho usado e, inocentemente, aproximei-me da pessoa mais inadequada para um conselho desses. Sei que o Sasuke tem sido mais agradável e amigável desde que voltou, mas mesmo assim eu deveria ter sabido melhor...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Muito diligentemente, ele disse-me que os namorados tendem a ser mais preocupados e carinhosos quando o seu parceiro está com algum tipo de problema de saúde. Por exemplo, se eu apanhasse um enorme escaldão, era muito provável que tu me quisesses espalhar creme por todo o corpo e, infelizmente, a ideia foi demasiado tentadora desde o início, e eu vi-me logo a fazer um plano extraordinariamente excêntrico funcionar...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A minha pele não é muito branca, queimá-la debaixo da influência do sol foi uma tarefa difícil, mais difícil que a ti (aliás, já muitas vezes me perguntei como é que a tua pele não está sempre queimada, vítima da luz do deserto). Mas executei esta tarefa com tal perfeição que toda a superfície do meu corpo se tornou numa película vermelha e dolorosa, que estalava e latejava sempre que me movia, e foi com muito esforço que me consegui chegar a ti.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas um facto apenas foi suficiente para inutilizar todo o meu plano. Olhando para ti através de um esgar de desconforto, vi que a tua pose, expressão e movimentos estavam algo alterados também, e que a tua pele brilhava com a força carmesim de um fogo. Também tinhas apanhado um escaldão, um enorme escaldão que te afectou por inteiro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Claro que as palavras do Sasuke estavam correctas. Mal reparámos no estado em que estávamos, corremos um para o outro e as nossas vozes exteriorizaram as nossas preocupações e carinho, mas não havia nada que pudéssemos fazer: magoava o apenas andar, magoaria mais o simples e (ainda que) amoroso toque que trocássemos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Agora sofremos os efeitos do creme, sim. Mas não fomos nós que o aplicámos um no outro, não. Há um brilho preverso nos olhos e sorriso do Sasuke enquanto esfrega quase com prazer o creme nas nossas peles, afinal era este o seu plano secreto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Olho para ti. A tua pele corada e alva encanta-me só a mim. Que tortura mais cruel! Ter-te todo coberto de creme e delicioso, tão perto de mim mas tão longe do meu toque!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-8491787071764755494?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/8491787071764755494/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/41-lobster-lagosta.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/8491787071764755494'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/8491787071764755494'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/41-lobster-lagosta.html' title='41 LOBSTER | LAGOSTA'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-640815914337452280</id><published>2009-06-24T14:29:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-24T14:40:35.108-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hope | esperança'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loneliness | solidão'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dream | sonho'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='saudade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sadness | tristeza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fanfiction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soulmates | almas gémeas'/><title type='text'>40 FORBIDDEN | PROÍBIDO</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/aSO-0-R0d5E&amp;hl=pt-br&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aSO-0-R0d5E&amp;hl=pt-br&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having returned home, tears cover his face, but the moist trail is endless, for new salted drops quickly succeed it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His back rests with incredible tiredness against the door behind him, closing it, and all his body finally gives in to the emptiness, to complete and ultimate surrendal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes it's so difficult to fight...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So difficult to go on holding hands with him when the eyes of the world stare at them with desdain, so difficult to belive happiness will survive so many stabs when one more is dealt to it, so difficult to keep the heart intact when it stumbles through the entire path...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sitting on the floor, his eyes abundantly bleed their ocean. He cannot take that struggle anymore, but the goodbye between them wrecked him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If he at least couldn't feel each forbidden kiss dance across his skin, each sweet whisper taunting his ears, each happy promise blinding his sight, maybe he could tear all that vain hope from his heart and carry on... Maybe he could start over...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But no... Love (and for a brief moment, it almost looks like the ghost of a smile slides among his tears, the memory of that word) has fused with him like the air he breathees, and all love, even the forbidden like his, it's just like that: the sickness and its ineffective medicine, the sadness and its preserverance, the pain and the hope that it'll end.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But this pain won't end. And love only makes it more intense.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why do we fall in love with such conviction with who we can't? And why has that person to fall in love with us too? There are so many people feeling such innocent love and they never see it coming to life, why not give this love to them? Why does this false forbidden love feel so real and right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Listen to your heart, wise people say. But the heart speaks the opposite of all rest. But the heart is made of matter superior to them...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Surrendering is so tempting, but it hurts so much...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe... fight a bit more...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's no real surrendal in any love.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And even if victory is just one single moment of love, it's already worth a whole life of surrendal...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regressado a casa, as lágrimas cobrem-lhe o rosto, mas o trilho húmido não acaba, pois novas gotas salgadas rapidamente lhe sucedem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As costas encostam-se com um cansaço incrível à porta atrás dele, fechando-a, e todo o corpo dele finalmente rende-se ao vazio, à completa e derredeira desistência.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Às vezes é tão difícil lutar...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tão difícil continuar de mãos dadas com ele quando os olhos do mundo os fitam com desprezo, tão difícil acreditar que a felicidade sobreviverá a tantas facadas quando mais uma lhe é desferida, tão difícil manter o coração intacto quando todo o seu caminho é feito aos trambolhões...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sentado no chão, os seus olhos sangram efusivamente o seu oceano. Ele já não aguenta mais aquele tumulto, mas a despedida entre eles arrasou-o.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se ele ao menos não conseguisse sentir cada beijo proíbido a dançar-lhe na pele, cada doce murmúrio a adular-lhe os ouvidos, cada feliz promessa a cegar-lhe a vista, talvez pudesse arrancar toda aquela vã esperança do seu coração e seguir em frente... Talvez pudesse começar de novo...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas não... O amor (e por um breve momento, quase parece que o fantasma de um sorriso lhe desliza por entre as lágrimas, a lembrança dessa palavra) fundiu-se a ele como o ar que respira, e todo o amor, mesmo o proíbido como o seu, é assim mesmo: a doença e o seu ineficaz remédio, a tristeza e a preseverança dela mesma, a dor e a tola esperança de que ela acaba.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas esta dor não acaba. E o amor ainda a torna mais intensa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Porque nos apaixonamos com tanta convicção por quem não podemos? E porque é que essa pessoa tem de apaixonar por nós também? Há tanta gente que sente um amor tão inocente e nunca o vê realizado, porquê não lhe entregar esse amor a elas? Porque é que este amor falso e proíbido nos parece tão real e certo?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ouve o teu coração, dizem os sábios. Mas o coração fala o completo oposto do resto. Mas o coração é de matéria superior a eles...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Desistir é tão tentador, mas dói tanto...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Talvez... lutar mais um pouco...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Não há derradeira desistência em qualquer amor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E mesmo que a vitória seja só um único momento de amor, já vale por uma vida inteira de desistência...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-640815914337452280?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/640815914337452280/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/40-forbidden-proibido.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/640815914337452280'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/640815914337452280'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/40-forbidden-proibido.html' title='40 FORBIDDEN | PROÍBIDO'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-6265997898860252218</id><published>2009-06-22T13:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-22T13:09:10.125-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life | vida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hope | esperança'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship | amizade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='goodness | bondade'/><title type='text'>39 SECOND CHANCE | SEGUNDA OPORTUNIDADE</title><content type='html'>Don't be scared, don't go away, don't disappear...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We're different, surely, you don't even understand what I am saying nor do I hear words in the sounds you make, but I thought that it was the ones of my species that got away from the difference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't run away, stay with me, let me come closer to you...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't want to do you harm...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just want to see you closely and observe you, I want to understand you, I want to know you, becaus if I know who you are, I see that you are just like me, and when you stop being different from me, there are to gaps between us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't want to do you harm...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I see that you are hurt and maybe don't believe in me, but my species has a feeling called trust, and today I call forth to yours.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just want to help you...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just want to redeem myself of millions of years of mistakes that don't deserve forgiveness...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But today I ask you for forgiveness. Let me start a new path. With your trust and my devotion, it cannot fail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But don't go away...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Going away is nothing more than complete surrendal. And I'm not ready to surrender yet...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Man is made of second chances.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Não te assustes, não te afastes, não desapareças...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Somos diferentes, é certo, tu nem compreendes o que te digo nem eu ouço palavras nos sons que fazes, mas sempre pensei que eram os da minha espécie que nos afastávamos sempre do diferente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Não fujas, fica comigo, deixa-me aproximar-me de ti....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Não te quero fazer mal...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Só te quero ver de perto e observar-te, quero compreender-te, quero conhecer-te, porque se souber quem és, vejo que no fundo és igual a mim, e deixando de ser diferente de mim, não há separações entre nós.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Não te quero fazer mal...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vejo que estás magoado e que talvez não acreditas em mim, mas a minha espécie tem um sentimento chamado confiança, e eu hoje apelo à tua.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Só te quero ajudar...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Só me quero redimir por milhões de anos de erros que não têm perdão...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas hoje peço-te perdão. Deixa-me começar um novo caminho. Com a tua confiança e a minha devoção, não pode falhar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas não te afastes...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O afastamento não é nada mais que um desistir irrevogável. E eu não estou pronto para desistir ainda...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O Homem é feito de segundas oportunidades.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-6265997898860252218?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/6265997898860252218/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/39-second-chance-segunda-oportunidade.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/6265997898860252218'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/6265997898860252218'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/39-second-chance-segunda-oportunidade.html' title='39 SECOND CHANCE | SEGUNDA OPORTUNIDADE'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-1476713155444525367</id><published>2009-06-17T13:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-17T13:37:40.932-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life | vida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beauty | beleza'/><title type='text'>38 ADVENTURE | AVENTURA</title><content type='html'>I was already told of faraway lands, endless jungles, immense mountains and scorching deserts. I've already heard that the big adventures are lived in an hostile environment, cruel and exotic, away from home and everything known and loved, with ferocious, gigantic and fearful creatures, but today I couldn't disagree more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today I saw a small serpent rise from the humble river of my city, amidst the lazy ducks, hissing at me in a challenge, maybe thinking itself the queen anaconda in her Amazon. Clumsy and slow, it quickly felt intimidated, crawling humilliated to its hideout. Today I have defeated a serpent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today I witnessed the artistic show of a group of very talented fish, of make-believe-salmons that jumped enthusiastically the artificial waterfall (that was nothing but a small dam) up, without ever reaching the upper level of the river, but never giving up. Today I have learned an important lesson about will power through the fish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today I heard my sister saw her beloved toaster catch on fire and be broken, almost ruining her expectations for a delicious snack, a hungry flaming dragon, taking its revenge for his lost meal. Today I have escaped the wrath of a dragon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So many enviable adventures, all in a place as quiet and boring, agreable and known as my city.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's an adventure everywhere, a moment worth remembering, if we're able to look carefully and be willing to live them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today was a proof of that. May tomorrow be it too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Já me falaram de terras longínquas, selvas infindáveis, montanhas altíssimas e desertos escaldantes. Já ouvi dizer que as grandes aventuras se vivem num ambiente inóspito, cruel e exótico, longe de casa de tudo o que é conhecido e adorado, com criaturas ferozes, gigantes e temerosas, mas hoje não posso discordar mais.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoje vi uma pequena serpente erguer-se do humilde rio da minha cidade, do meio dos preguiçosos patos, silvando-me em desafio, talvez pensando-se a rainha anaconda no seu Amazonas. Desajeitada e lenta, depressa se sentiu intimidada, rastejando humilhada para o seu esconderijo. Hoje derrotei uma serpente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoje presenciei o espectáculo artístico de um grupo de muito talentosos peixes, quais salmões-faz-de-conta que saltavam com entusiasmo pela cascata artificial acima (que não passava de uma simples barragem), sem nunca conseguir alcançar o nível superior do rio, mas nunca desistindo. Hoje aprendi uma lição importante de força de vontade através de peixes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoje soube que a minha irmã viu a sua estimada torradeira a pegar fogo e estragar-se, quase lhe arruinando as expectativas de um delicioso lanche, um dragão em chamas esfomeado, em vingança pela sua refeição perdida. Hoje escapei da ira de um dragão.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tantas aventuras invejáveis, todas num local tão pacato e aborrecido, agradável e conhecido como a minha cidade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Há uma aventura em todo lado, um momento que vale a pena relembrar, se formos capazes de olhar com atenção e estarmos dispostos a vivê-los.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoje foi prova de isso. Que o amanhã seja também.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-1476713155444525367?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/1476713155444525367/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/38-adventure-aventura.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/1476713155444525367'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/1476713155444525367'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/38-adventure-aventura.html' title='38 ADVENTURE | AVENTURA'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-7845151862924076985</id><published>2009-06-15T13:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-15T13:11:03.420-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loneliness | solidão'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='saudade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sadness | tristeza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soulmates | almas gémeas'/><title type='text'>37 BLANK PAGE | PÁGINA EM BRANCO</title><content type='html'>Tears and sighing, screams, whispers and sobs...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Frustration and impatience, melancholy and longing, loneliness...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All that fades away before the sight of you at my doorway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take my hand, let us walk. We have a blank page before us, free, clean and endless. Let us write on it together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lágrimas e suspiros, gritos, múrmurios e soluços...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Frustração e impaciência, melancolia e saudade, solidão...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tudo isso se desvanece perante a visão de ti à soleira da minha porta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dá-me a mão, andemos. Temos uma página em branco à nossa frente, livre, limpa e infinita. Escrevamos nela juntos.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-7845151862924076985?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/7845151862924076985/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/37-blank-page-pagina-em-branco.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/7845151862924076985'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/7845151862924076985'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/37-blank-page-pagina-em-branco.html' title='37 BLANK PAGE | PÁGINA EM BRANCO'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-4331315639753335789</id><published>2009-06-14T13:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-06T14:32:37.951-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beauty | beleza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='random | aleatório'/><title type='text'>36 SILLY POEM | POEMA TOLO</title><content type='html'>Soap falls down,&lt;br /&gt;Fart goes up,&lt;br /&gt;Future lies ahead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O sabão cai,&lt;br /&gt;O peido sobe,&lt;br /&gt;O futuro está à frente&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-4331315639753335789?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/4331315639753335789/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/36-silly-haiku-haiku-tolo.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/4331315639753335789'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/4331315639753335789'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/36-silly-haiku-haiku-tolo.html' title='36 SILLY POEM | POEMA TOLO'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-6584789637659910862</id><published>2009-06-12T13:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-12T13:32:14.726-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loneliness | solidão'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship | amizade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='goodness | bondade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soulmates | almas gémeas'/><title type='text'>35 PERCEPTION | PERCEPÇÃO</title><content type='html'>Sometimes I feel I look too much at unimportant things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everyone looks forward, but I stubbornly look to the sides and behind too, examining everything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They tell me the best is ahead, fact with which I agree, because how many times have I lost the chance to fully appreciate a treasure just because I was distracted?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the truth is one day I looked to the side and I saw you. And I believe that no treasure that has escaped me could ever be as magnificent as all the perception of your presence here, near me. But everyone that has seen you disagrees...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I don't bother, I don't feel sad for my perception being deficient. My deficient perception brought me this so magnificent vision of you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wrong, perhaps... but so real and endearing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por vezes sinto que olho demasiado para coisas sem importância.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Todos olham para a frente, mas eu teimosamente olho para os lados e para trás também, examinando tudo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dizem-me que o melhor é que está em frente, facto com o qual concordo, pois quantas vezes perdi a oportunidade de apreciar deliciadamente um tesouro só porque estava distraído?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas a verdade é que um dia olhei para o lado e vi-te a ti. E acredito que nunca nenhum tesouro que me escapou pode ser tão magnífico como toda a percepção da tua presença aqui, ao pé de mim. Mas todos que te viram não concordaram...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas não me incomodo, não me sinto triste pela minha percepção ser deficiente. A minha percepção deficiente trouxe-me esta visão tão magnífica de ti.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Errada, talvez... mas tão real e carinhosa.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-6584789637659910862?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/6584789637659910862/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/35-perception-percepcao.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/6584789637659910862'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/6584789637659910862'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/35-perception-percepcao.html' title='35 PERCEPTION | PERCEPÇÃO'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-4052951906546537565</id><published>2009-06-11T13:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-11T13:22:19.560-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fanfiction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soulmates | almas gémeas'/><title type='text'>34 GAARA</title><content type='html'>Gaara,&lt;br /&gt;Aishiteru&lt;br /&gt;Aishiteru&lt;br /&gt;Repeat?&lt;br /&gt;Aishiteru!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gaara,&lt;br /&gt;Amo-te&lt;br /&gt;Amo-te&lt;br /&gt;Repito?&lt;br /&gt;Amo-te!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-4052951906546537565?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/4052951906546537565/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/34-gaara.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/4052951906546537565'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/4052951906546537565'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/34-gaara.html' title='34 GAARA'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-7748372821244180553</id><published>2009-06-10T14:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-10T14:49:51.477-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dream | sonho'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soulmates | almas gémeas'/><title type='text'>33 SWEET DREAMS | BONS SONHOS</title><content type='html'>I really like sleeping in my bed when you're there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's all so soft and cushy, warm and snuggly, delicade and peaceful. All I want is to cuddle and dig further there forever, sleep in the greatest calm in between so many silky caresses...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, but the bed is not so bad either... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gosto imenso de dormir na minha cama quando lá estás.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;É tudo tão suave e almofadado, quentinho e aconchegante, delicado e pacífico. Só me apetece encolher-me e enrolar-me lá para sempre, dormir na maior das calmas por entre tantas carícias sedosas...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ah, mas a cama também não é nada má...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-7748372821244180553?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/7748372821244180553/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/33-sweet-dreams-bons-sonhos.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/7748372821244180553'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/7748372821244180553'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/33-sweet-dreams-bons-sonhos.html' title='33 SWEET DREAMS | BONS SONHOS'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-8773578786767230683</id><published>2009-06-09T13:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-09T13:15:31.982-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beauty | beleza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soulmates | almas gémeas'/><title type='text'>32 FREAK | ABERRAÇÃO</title><content type='html'>You're massive, huge, disproportional. Your movements make you drag yourself clumsily across the ground, your voice scratches the air that surrounds you. Everything in you yells lack of harmony, of rightness, of perfection. A freak, maybe that's the appropriate word...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the disproportional enormity of your body becomes tender when you are snuggled against me in your sleep. You hop in your movements whenever you're happy and your voice becomes more delicate and powerful than a very well-studied symphony when you laugh. In those times, all the pieces that seemed desorganized immediately moved to a surprisingly correct order, and I all of a sudden see myself without reasons for stop loving you. Beauty, if I wait for the right moment, is what you become...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My beautiful freak...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;És massiva, enorme, desproporcional. Os teus movimentos fazem-te arrastar deselegantemente pelo chão adiante, a tua voz arranha o ar que te rodeia. Tudo em ti grita falta de harmonia, de rectidão, de perfeição. Uma aberração, talvez seja essa a palavra apropriada...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas a desporcional enormidade do teu corpo torna-se terna quando estás enrolada e adormecida a meu lado. Os teus movimentos são saltitantes sempre que estás feliz e a tua voz torna-se mais delicada e poderosa que uma muito estudada sinfonia quando te ris. Nessas alturas, todas as peças que pareciam desarranjadas movem-se logo para uma ordem surpreendentemente correcta, e eu de repente vejo-me sem razões por que deveria deixar de te amar. Beleza, se esperar pelo momento certo, é aquilo em que te tornas...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Minha linda aberração...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-8773578786767230683?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/8773578786767230683/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/32-freak-aberracao.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/8773578786767230683'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/8773578786767230683'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/32-freak-aberracao.html' title='32 FREAK | ABERRAÇÃO'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-7776284281726721232</id><published>2009-06-08T14:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-08T14:38:38.809-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fanfiction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soulmates | almas gémeas'/><title type='text'>31 BIOLOGY | BIOLOGIA</title><content type='html'>It all comes down to biology, really. To symbiosis. To synergy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's all as simple as planned, the reactions (mine and yours) quickly succeed  with harmony in mind, perfection, stability in this world so hostile.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It started when you saw I was just like you, when you realized we had been delivered to the same unfriendly environment and had been sculped by the same painful stimuli.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It went on when you saw that, even being the same, I was different from you, when you noticed that pain had marked me with madness while it tore an eternal smile on your lips, and you knew that something wrong had happened to me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It had its greatest challenge when it was clear to you that our equity allied to our difference would make us unbeatable before hostility, when you decided to fight to correct my diverging from you and wrong evolution, when you finally succeeded in putting me in the right path: by your side, guided by your overwhelming light.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, it constantly conquers victory after victory, while we keep on learning all the little but wonderful advantages of being together, as you keep lending me your smile while I deliver all my strength to you, making us strong enough before a world that looks at us and sees just monsters in us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are symbiosis, because each of us has just half of a perfect heart, because we are now obligated to be this close even to just think about happiness, calm, harmony.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are synergy, because although each one of us has his own and admirable strength, when these are combined they become more fantastic than just their rigorous and mathematical sum, they overcome all its boundaries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are biology, because every time you come close and press the stimuli of a million light and soft smiles with your lips upon my cheek my blood runs to it and paints it vermillion, gathers all the love and tenderness you have given me with that so simple gesture (as if they were molecules of the precious oxygen) and spreads it all over my body, floods me with a happiness I had never felt, that makes me see that we belong together, that makes me know that I'll always be an essential presence by your side, your love has already become a fundamental ingredient for my survival.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Above all, we are a force of Nature, you and me together. So lost, shy and vulnerable apart. So happy together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tudo se resume a biologia, na verdade. A simbiose. A sinergismo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tudo é tão simples como o planeado, as reacções (minhas e tuas) sucedem-se rapidamente com a harmonia em mente, a perfeição, a estabilidade neste mundo tão hostil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Começou quando viste que era igual a ti, quando te apercebeste que fomos entregues ao mesmo ambiente pouco amigável e esculpidos pelos mesmos estímulos dolorosos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Continuou quando viste que, mesmo assim, era diferente de ti, quando reparaste que a dor me marcou com a loucura enquanto que a ti te rasgou um permanente sorriso nos lábios, e soubeste que algo errado me tinha acontecido.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Teve o seu maior desafio quando ficou claro para ti que a nossa igualdade aliada à nossa diferença tornar-nos-ia imbatíveis perante a hostilidade, quando decidiste lutar para corrigir a minha evolução errada e divergente de ti, quando finalmente conseguiste colocar-me no caminho certo: a teu lado, guiado pela tua arrebatadora luz.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Agora, sucessivamente conquista vitória atrás de vitória, enquanto vamos aprendendo todas as pequenas mas maravilhosas vantagens de estarmos juntos, conforme tu me vais emprestando o teu sorriso enquanto eu te entrego toda a minha força, tornando-nos suficientemente fortes perante um mundo que nos olha e vê em nós apenas monstros.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Somos simbiose, porque cada um de nós tem apenas metade de um coração perfeito, porque agora somos obrigados a estar assim tão perto até mesmo para pensar em felicidade, calma, harmonia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Somos sinergismo, porque apesar de cada um de nós ter a sua força própria e admirável, quando estas são combinadas tornam-se mais fantásticas que apenas a soma rigorosa e matemática delas, ultrapassam-lhe todos os limites.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Somos biologia, porque sempre que te aproximas e pressionas o estímulo de um milhão de leves e suaves sorrisos com os teus lábios contra a minha bochecha o meu sangue corre para ela e pinta-a de vermelho, recolhe todo o amor e carinho que me deste com esse simplíssimo gesto (como se fossem moléculas do precioso oxigénio) e difunde-o pelo meu corpo todo, inunda-me de uma felicidade que nunca senti, que me faz ver que pertencemos um ao outro, que me permite saber que ao teu lado sempre serei uma presença essencial, o teu amor já se tornou num nutriente fundamental para a minha sobrevivência.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Acima de tudo, somos uma força da Natureza, tu e eu juntos. Tão perdidos, tímidos e vulneráveis separados. Tão felizes juntos.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-7776284281726721232?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/7776284281726721232/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/31-biology-biologia.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/7776284281726721232'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/7776284281726721232'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/31-biology-biologia.html' title='31 BIOLOGY | BIOLOGIA'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-2705208873801970139</id><published>2009-06-07T13:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-07T13:12:24.563-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life | vida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hope | esperança'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dream | sonho'/><title type='text'>30 FIGHTING DREAMER | LUTADOR DE SONHOS</title><content type='html'>It's good to know that dreams have not died. In this world so centered in a road so vain and devoid of purposes, it's good to know that many of its inhabitants still break the routine and fight for something above their stubbornly forward-facing sightline.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the fight still exists, there's still hope. Where there's hope, it's never necessary extraordinary effort to succeed. Reach that success, dear fighting dreamer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;É bom saber que os sonhos não morreram. Neste mundo tão centrado num rumo tão fútil e vago de objectivos, é bom saber que muitos dos seus habitantes ainda quebram a rotina e lutam por algo acima do olhar tão obcecado com o que está directamente à sua frente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se a luta ainda existe, ainda há esperança. Onde há esperança, nunca é necessário um extraordinário esforço para o sucesso. Chega a esse sucesso, querido lutador de sonhos.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-2705208873801970139?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/2705208873801970139/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/30-fighting-dreamer-lutador-de-somho.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/2705208873801970139'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/2705208873801970139'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/30-fighting-dreamer-lutador-de-somho.html' title='30 FIGHTING DREAMER | LUTADOR DE SONHOS'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-8580314101719494553</id><published>2009-06-06T03:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-06T03:32:11.022-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life | vida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hope | esperança'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loneliness | solidão'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='saudade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship | amizade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sadness | tristeza'/><title type='text'>29 GOODBYE | ADEUS</title><content type='html'>Goodbye is just a word, and words have no meaning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My lips say goodbye to you, but my heart still smiles at you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nothing has changed, we're still together. It's not difficult being together, overcoming distance, when this connection has never broken...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is no goodbye because nothing really disappears in this world, especially what has been invisible from the start. So don't worry, because I'll always be here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll always be here, and goodbye is just a meaningless word...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then why the hell are we saying farewell?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adeus é só uma palavra, e as palavras nada significam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Os meus lábios dizem-te adeus, mas o meu coração continua a sorrir-te.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nada mudou, ainda estamos juntos. Não é nada difícil estarmos juntos, ultrapassar a distância, quando esta ligação nunca se rompeu...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Não existe adeus porque nada realmente desaparece neste mundo, principalmente aquilo que era invisível desde o início. Por isso não te preocupes, porque sempre estarei aqui.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sempre estarei aqui, e o adeus é só uma palavra sem significado...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para que raio nos estamos a despedir então?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-8580314101719494553?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/8580314101719494553/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/29-goodbye-adeus.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/8580314101719494553'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/8580314101719494553'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/29-goodbye-adeus.html' title='29 GOODBYE | ADEUS'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-1204500365954497765</id><published>2009-06-05T02:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-05T02:47:55.389-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life | vida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hope | esperança'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hero | herói'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dream | sonho'/><title type='text'>28 STARS | ESTRELAS</title><content type='html'>The sun slowly disappears, it had all day to flash the world with its light, now the sky wants to have the chance to see properly. A star grumbles... One of these days, that other brighter star will blind her...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But that is a worry for another time... While the darkness chases the sun and ends up pushing it away from this plan, the star remembers her mission and, shining more subtly than the other, she hopes that this time someone will pay attention to her message...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you ever wondered why the stars shine? Why do they make you look up, why their pale and delicate light hypnotizes you and makes you... think?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This star, that now does her best to draw someone's (anyone's!) attention to herself, might be able to answer you...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A long time ago, this star had to take care of her own planet, with life, and from that experience she must have gained more knowledge than anyone of us... But something must have went wrong for that life to have disappeared, and the star now shines and hopes, hopes that someone will get her message through the light and learn ahead from her mistakes...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the day, that mission is impossible, the young sun, smug in its energy, blinds out her timid light. The night is, this way, her only hope, and her warning, her message, all her knowledge reaches us through her shine...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is the dreamer who gets that message.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lying under the sky, he sleeps and sees. He sees what the stars have seen before, he understands where they failed and understands what he must do to succeed. Underneath his starlight-bathed eyelids, rush all the answers of the universe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's a shame that he wakes up afterwards, and sees the sun, and all the memory from the dream is lost from his mind... It's a shame that he stretches and almost shrugs off sleep as something necessary but not fundamental...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, up above, the star doesn't give up. On the next night she shines once more, and goes on hoping that someone will understand her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She won't let this world die too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O sol lentamente desaparece, teve o dia todo para ofuscar o mundo com a sua luz, agora o céu quer ter a oportunidade para ver devidamente. Uma estrela resmunga... Um dia essa outra estrela mais brilhante vai cegá-la...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas isso é preocupação para outra altura... Enquanto a escuridão persegue o sol e acaba por empurrá-lo para longe deste plano, a estrela lembra-se da sua missão e, brilhando mais subtilmente que o outro, espera que desta vez alguém esteja atento à sua mensagem...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nunca te perguntaste porque é que as estrelas brilham? Porque é que te fazem olhar para cima, porque é que a sua luz pálida e delicada te hipnotiza e te faz... pensar?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esta estrela, que agora se esforça ao máximo para chamar a atenção de alguém (não importa quem!) para si, é capaz de te responder...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Há muito tempo, já esta estrela teve de tomar conta do seu planeta, da sua vida, e a partir dessa experiência terá ganho mais conhecimentos que qualquer um de nós... Mas alguma coisa terá corrido mal para que essa vida tivesse desaparecido, e a estrela agora brilha e espera, espera que alguém receba a sua mensagem através da luz e aprenda antecipadamente com os seus erros...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De dia, tal missão torna-se impossível, o jovem sol, arrogante na sua energia, ofusca a sua tímida luz. A noite torna-se a sua única esperança, e o seu aviso, a sua mensagem, todo o seu conhecimento chega a nós através do seu brilho...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;É o sonhador que capta essa mensagem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deitado ao relento, ele dorme e vê. Vê o que as estrelas já viram, percebe onde erraram e percebe o que deve fazer para acertar. Por debaixo das suas pálpebras iluminadas pelo brilho das estrelas, correm todas as respostas do universo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;É pena ele depois acordar, ver o sol, e toda a memória do sonho lhe escape da mente... É pena ele se espreguiçar e quase sacudir o seu sono como algo necessário mas não fundamental...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas, lá em cima, a estrela não desiste. Na noite seguinte brilha, e continua à espera que alguém a compreenda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Não deixará este mundo morrer também.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-1204500365954497765?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/1204500365954497765/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/28-stars-estrelas.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/1204500365954497765'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/1204500365954497765'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/28-stars-estrelas.html' title='28 STARS | ESTRELAS'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-2185779818932586959</id><published>2009-06-04T13:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-04T14:01:23.879-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><title type='text'>27 SCREAM | GRITA</title><content type='html'>Let me scream.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I perfectly know that better days will come, in fact, I am well aware that even the next minute won't be as frustrating, but let me scream...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am human, I am reason, I know that pouting at the world serves me no good...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But being human, I am heart. Never silence your heart, let it scream when needed, even if your head sees no utility in it (what is emotion's practical reason, after all?). Poor are the ones who ignore their center...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let me scream now, I will think better afterwards. This way, I will be human always...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deixa-me gritar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sei perfeitamente que dias melhores virão, aliás, estou bem ciente que mesmo o meu minuto seguinte não será tão frustante, mas deixa-me gritar...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sou humano, sou razão, sei que de nada me serve ficar indignado com o que o mundo me tem para dar..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas também ao ser humano, sou coração. Nunca cales o coração, deixa-o gritar quando é preciso, mesmo que a tua cabeça nisso não veja utilidade (qual é a utilidade prática da emoção, afinal?). Tristes daqueles que ignoram o seu centro...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deixa-me gritar agora, pensarei melhor depois. Assim, serei humano sempre...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-2185779818932586959?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/2185779818932586959/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/27-scream-grita.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/2185779818932586959'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/2185779818932586959'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/27-scream-grita.html' title='27 SCREAM | GRITA'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-4889778827232236316</id><published>2009-06-03T13:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-03T13:26:51.521-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><title type='text'>26 FOOL | IDIOTA</title><content type='html'>I utterly apologize for making such a perfect fool of myself whenever you pass by me, or look at me, or tell me something bolder, or when you simply act in a way that makes all in you show itself as you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's just you have this exceptional capacity of not only reducing my proud intellectual ability to a thin zero but also of making me feel like that is not bad at all...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You make a fool out of me when you are near me, but you make me happy for being the fool with the honour of having you beside him...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peço imensa desculpa por fazer uma cara de idiota tão perfeita sempre que passas por mim, ou olhas para mim, ou me dizes algo mais arrojado, ou quando simplesmente ages de uma forma em que tudo em ti se mostra como tu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;É que tens uma capacidade excepcional de não só reduzires a minha orgulhosa habilidade intelectual a um magro zero mas também de me fazer sentir como se isso não fosse grave...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fazes-me um idiota quando estás ao pé de mim, mas fazes-me feliz por ser o idiota que tem a honra da te ter ao pé de si...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-4889778827232236316?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/4889778827232236316/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/26-fool-idiota.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/4889778827232236316'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/4889778827232236316'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/26-fool-idiota.html' title='26 FOOL | IDIOTA'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-930137524516818957</id><published>2009-06-02T15:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-02T15:41:45.090-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life | vida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hope | esperança'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loneliness | solidão'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='saudade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship | amizade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sadness | tristeza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fanfiction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soulmates | almas gémeas'/><title type='text'>25  MY LIFE PURPOSE | O MEU OBJECTIVO DE VIDA</title><content type='html'>Is it possible for one person to have his destiny written at the age of eight? Because I feel that I have only one important mission to accomplish during my entire life: live your life as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How could you remain locked away for so long, how did you survive without having just the sky covering you once, without having just the mother-earth hold you once? But now I ask myself as well how could that same Earth not cry without the treasure that is you, without being charmed with every gesture you make so genuinely, every wonderful reaction you have before this world so strange to you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want to show you every thing there is for you to see, even the places so close to you that you never had the chance to see properly, and in exchange I want to gain the vision of your exciting smile...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want to let you listen to all the songs nature emotionally echoes, of animals, rocks and plants, and in exchange I want to hear you laugh, sigh, exclaim in surprise, I want to hear you vocalize what you feel...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want to let you know all the sweet and fresh, warm and intoxicating scents each being carries with it, all the bitter, salty, honey and spicy flavors each fruit and food can offer you, and in exchange I want to lose myself in the mixture of exotic scents and flavors that is you, a mixture I had never known before and will never know again...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want to make you feel happiness and excitement, adrenaline and surprise, friendship and tenderness, longing and nostalgia, I want your heart to jump all the obstacles you couldn't jump before, I want all that is you to feel protected and loved, and in exchange all I want is to be the one to make you feel all that...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want so much for life to embrace you and make you complete that I didn't even know it, only now that life's opposite twin has taken you do I realize that I can still have that wish fulfilled...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will live for you, and through me you will be the everything that is us. I'll live more than any other man that has walked this universe, all for you...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And, when one day I leave this place and return to you, I'll settle in your embrace and retell you everything, just retell, because after all you had been with me all along...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You are my project in life, my final purpose. Through you, I will be me, in the same way you will be you through me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are one. Our souls are one life only, complete and perfect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;É possível uma pessoa ter o seu destino traçado desde os seus oito anos? Porque eu sinto que só tenho uma missão realmente importante a cumprir na minha vida: viver a tua vida também.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Como pudeste estar fechado durante tanto tempo, como sobreviveste sem nada senão o céu a cobrir-te, sem nada senão a terra-mãe a agarrar-te? Mas agora pergunto-me também como pôde essa mesma terra não chorar sem o tesouro que és, sem não se encantar com cada gesto que fazes tão genuinamente, cada reacção maravilhosa que tens perante este mundo que te é tão estranho?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quero mostrar-te tudo o que há para veres, mesmo os sítios tão perto de ti mas que tu nunca pudeste ver propriamente, e em troca quero receber a visão do teu excitante sorriso...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quero deixar-te ouvir todos os cantos que a natureza emocionalmente ecoa, dos animais, rochas e plantas, e em troca quero ouvir-te rir, suspirar, exclamar de surpresa, vocalizar o que sentes...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quero dar-te a conhecer todos os aromas doces e frescos, quentes e intoxicantes que cada ser transporta consigo, todos os sabores amargos, salgados, de mel e picantes que cada fruto e alimento te oferece, e em troca quero perder-me na mistura de aromas e sabores exóticos que és tu, que nunca conheci igual nem nunca conhecerei...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quero fazer-te sentir a felicidade e a excitação, a adrenalina e a surpresa, a amizade e o carinho, a saudade e a nostalgia, quero que o teu coração salte todos os obstáculos que não pudeste saltar antes, quero que tudo o que és tu se sinta protegido e amado, e em troca tudo o que quero é que seja eu quem te faça sentir tudo isso...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quero tanto que a vida te abrace e te torne completo que nem sequer o sabia, só agora que a sua gémea oposta te levou é que sei que ainda posso ter esse desejo cumprido...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Viverei por ti, e através de mim tu serás o tudo que somos nós. Hei-de viver mais do que qualquer outro homem que caminhou este universo, tudo por ti...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E, quando um dia deixar este plano e regressar a ti, hei-de aninhar-me no teu abraço e recontar-te tudo, apenas recontar, porque afinal tu estiveste sempre comigo...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tu és o meu projecto de vida, o meu objectivo final. Através de ti, eu serei eu, da mesma forma que tu serás tu através de mim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Somos um. As nossas almas são apenas uma vida, completa e perfeita.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-930137524516818957?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/930137524516818957/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/25-my-life-purpose-o-meu-objectivo-de.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/930137524516818957'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/930137524516818957'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/25-my-life-purpose-o-meu-objectivo-de.html' title='25  MY LIFE PURPOSE | O MEU OBJECTIVO DE VIDA'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-3072882930344785029</id><published>2009-06-01T09:01:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-01T09:01:39.085-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hope | esperança'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><title type='text'>24 CHILD | CRIANÇA</title><content type='html'>The little one walks once more happily through the street. After making sure with all her might that the value of an "hello" remained intact, very few worries bothered her path of hope again, and that's why her steps are light and serene.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The child is the the purest human being in existence. In their spontanity, they act with heart and instinct, they act when they want and because they want, they act because they feel it's right to act like that, without prejudice, unnecessário obstacles, the coldness that reason imposes on others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The child is happy because they get all the joy the world can give them in the rough, all that's fascinating is so without any apparent reason, and without reason everything seems more divine to us, the wonderful phenomenons cannot be described in words, besides, the child doesn't even know any words, such artifitialities would limit verbally the reality the child absorbs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The child is happy with their dreams, their visions, because to them those are real too, and actually what's the problem of consider them so, if they can really feel all that they transmit?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the world sometimes gets sad and uses the clouds to cry, and the child gets sad too, but only while the rain lasts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most important than all, the child has in themselves all the solutions for the problems that torment the older ones, because the world made its problems to be solved by easy answers, and since the child sees beyond the complications and superfluous rules created by the older ones, to the child the solutions (and the path to them) appear naturally.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The child can see right away all that is wrong with the world and they cry, they cannot understand how the adults can be so blind, or if they can see what's happening and simply ignore it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But this child goes on walking, still willing to solve what she can of the wrong of the world. But while she walks the roads of time, it's important that she holds onto her heart of child, her heart of perfect human.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actually, today it's important that all of us remember that, that we protect the child part that's inside us, that still screams at us to see what is so clear. Without it we can never be human. Without it we can never be happy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A pequena caminha novamente feliz pela rua. Depois de se ter certificado com toda a força que tinha que o valor de um "olá" se mantinha intacto, poucas preocupações voltaram a incomodar o seu campo de esperança, e por isso os seus passos são leves e serenos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uma criança é o ser humano mais puro que existe. Na sua espontâneadade, age com o coração e o instinto, age quando e porque quer, age porque sente que é correcto agir daquela forma, sem preconceitos, obstáculos desnecessários, a frieza que a razão impõe aos outros.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A criança é feliz porque recebe toda a alegria que o mundo lhe pode dar em bruto, tudo o que é fascinante é-o sem razão aparente, e sem razão tudo nos parece mais divino, os fenómenos maravilhosos não podem ser postos em palavras, aliás, a criança nem palavras sabe, tais artificialidades poriam limites escritos e verbais às realidades que absorve.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A criança é feliz com os seus sonhos, e as suas visões, porque para ela também esses são reais, e realmente qual é o problema de os considerar assim, se ela consegue mesmo sentir tudo aquilo que eles transmitem?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas o mundo às vezes entristece e usa as nuvens para chorar, e a criança também fica triste, mas só enquanto a chuva dura.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mais importante que tudo, a criança tem em si todas as soluções dos problemas que afligem os mais velhos, porque o mundo fez os seus problemas para serem resolvidos por respostas fáceis, e como a criança vê para além das complicações e regras supérfluas que os mais velhos criam, para ela as soluções (e o modo de chegar a elas) surgem-lhe naturalmente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A criança consegue ver logo o que está mal com o mundo e chora, não entende como os adultos são tão cegos, ou se conseguem ver o que se passa e simplesmente ignoram-no.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas esta criança continua a caminhar, ainda disposta a resolver o que pode do errado. Mas enquanto caminha pelas estradas do tempo, é importante que se agarre com força ao seu coração de criança, ao seu coração de humano perfeito.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aliás, hoje é importante que todos nos lembremos disso, que protejamos a parte da criança que há em nós, e ainda nos grita para vermos o que é tão claro. Sem isso nunca poderemos ser humanos. Sem isso nunca poderemos ser felizes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-3072882930344785029?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/3072882930344785029/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/24-child-crianca.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/3072882930344785029'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/3072882930344785029'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/06/24-child-crianca.html' title='24 CHILD | CRIANÇA'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-5737072407348797517</id><published>2009-05-31T15:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-31T15:41:08.636-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hope | esperança'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beauty | beleza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sadness | tristeza'/><title type='text'>23 MIRACLE | MILAGRE</title><content type='html'>Today I've found a tree. This tree was just like so many others, and I had passed by it so many times before while I walked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But today something wonderful came to it. Today each white flower that covered it was embraced by a butterfly, and while I passed by, a million of joyful wings bounced their way to me and envelopped me in their happiness, in their nectary sweetness, in the rustling of the abandoned leaves, in the enery of flight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On that moment, a line of salt ran down my eyes, where tears had dried some moments before. My eyes were still red from their pain, but now they laughed with the soaring butterflies, with my open and giggling lips, with the joy of seeing everything so alive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Such a strange thing, sadness... It overflows as poisonous water and right away makes the heart so receptive to these small miracles. The sweetness of the butterflies has consumed the salt of my tears, the miracle of the butterflies erased all pain, their wings guide me to the light ahead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoje encontrei uma árvore. Esta árvore era igual a tantas outras, e já por ela tinha passado inúmeras vezes enquanto caminhava.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas hoje algo de maravilhoso apoderou-se dela. Hoje cada branca flor que a cobria estava por sua vez abraçada por uma borboleta, e enquanto eu passava, um milhão de asas alegres palpitaram até mim e envolveram-me na sua felicidade, na sua doçura de néctar, no restolhar das folhas abandonadas, na energia de voo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nesse momento, uma linha de sal escorria-me pelos olhos abaixo, onde as lágrimas haviam secado alguns momentos antes. O meus olhos ainda estavam vermelhos da sua dor, mas agora riam-se com as borboletas que esvoaçavam, com os meus lábios que se abriam e gargalhavam, com a alegria de ver tudo tão vivo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Coisa tão estranha, a tristeza... Transborda sob a forma de água imprópria para consumo e logo deixa o coração tão receptivo a estes pequenos milagres. O doce das borboletas consumiu o sal das minhas lágrimas, o milagre das borboletas apagou toda a dor, as suas asas guiam-me para a luz em frente.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-5737072407348797517?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/5737072407348797517/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/05/23-miracle-milagre.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/5737072407348797517'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/5737072407348797517'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/05/23-miracle-milagre.html' title='23 MIRACLE | MILAGRE'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-912499248334905192</id><published>2009-05-30T02:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-30T03:28:27.487-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beauty | beleza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship | amizade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='goodness | bondade'/><title type='text'>22 TREASURE | TESOURO</title><content type='html'>He had always been a secretive person. Silent, imperceptible, just another face in the crowd, one that blended so well with all the others seeking attention that very few people were able to realize he was there too, without ambitions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He was afraid to show himself to the world. He would see so many people vaunting themselves and still so sad, he feared the world wouldn't like what he had to give either and would reject him. It took one person to notice him when he was invisible to bring his heart of gold up, to hold his hand, to motivate him to connect to the others, to show the precious treasure he had inside him after all, just to wait for the crowd to relish with his brightness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After all, the boy had no reasons to be left outside. His beautiful personality, hidden for so long, was a sure entry ticket, his treasure was loved from the beginning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But not all was easy for the boy. His treasure was so bright that many people, greedy and envious, started stealing him piece after piece, devouring his heart of gold, turning him into one of them: a merciless show-off. And the boy, happy with the attention he would so receive, wasn't able to step back, to save himself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Time went by and the gold chest became empty. The crowd still surrounding him because he had become a hero to them, but there was a person that wouldn't look at him anymore: the person that had seen him when he wanted to hide, the person who noticed his hidden treasure and defeated his fear. Despaired, the boy realized then that something was very wrong. And he had to reverse the situation, before it was too late.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He stepped away from the crowd and returned to his lonesome life, for a long time, because he thought it would take an eternity to refill the gold treasure. But, much sooner than he expected, the person from before came to him and took him from his loneliness. She explained that he was in fact the carrier of a real treasure, and the real treasures are not gold, but something more imaterial, and the boy would never run out of it. Just let the crowd feast on the golden shine of the metal while his chest went on full of diamond goodness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The real treasure carriers never cease to be so, even when it doesn't seem that way. The true valuable people carry with them genuine goodness, even if we can't see it now, it will show eventually.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Goodness is a treasure of diamon. Its limited in gems, but it lasts forever. Gold is goodness for cortesy, it wears off quickly: if there's nothing else beneath it, it is worth nothing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ele sempre foi uma pessoa muito reservada. Silenciosa, imperceptível, mais uma cara na multidão, uma que se misturava tão bem com todas as outras que queriam atenção, que pouca gente era capaz de perceber que ele também lá estava, sem ambições.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ele tinha medo de se mostrar ao mundo. Via tanta gente a vangloriar-se e mesmo assim tão triste, estava receoso que o mundo também não fosse gostar do que ele tinha para dar e o rejeitasse. Foi preciso alguém reparar nele quando ele estava invisível para trazer o seu coração de ouro ao de cima, para lhe dar a mão, motivá-lo a ligar-se aos outros, a mostrar o tesouro precioso que afinal guardava dentro dele, apenas esperar que a multidão se deslumbrasse com o seu brilho.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Afinal o rapaz não tinha razões para se sentir de fora. A sua bela personalidade escondida por tanto tempo foi um certo bilhete de entrada, o seu tesouro foi amado desde o início.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas nem tudo foi fácil para o rapaz. O seu tesouro era tão brilhante que muita gente, avarenta e invejosa, começou a roubar-lhe parte atrás de parte, devorando-lhe o coração de ouro, tornando-o como um deles: um vangloriador sem princípios. E ele, feliz com a atenção que assim tinha, não foi capaz de se afastar, de se salvar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O tempo passou e o cofre de ouro do rapaz ficou vazio. A multidão ainda o rodeava porque ele havia-se tornado um herói para eles, mas havia uma pessoa que agora não olhava mais para ele agora: a pessoa que o havia visto quando ele se queria esconder, a pessoa que reparara no tesouro escondido e lhe derrotou o medo. Desesperado, o rapaz percebeu aí que algo estava muito errado. E ele tinha de reverter a situação, antes que fosse demasiado tarde.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Afastou-se da multidão e voltou à sua vida solitária, por muito tempo, porque achou que levaria uma eternidade para voltar a encher o tesouro de ouro. Mas, muito mais cedo do que esperava, a pessoa de antes veio ter com ele e tirou-o do seu isolamento. Explicou-lhe que ele era na verdade o portador de um verdadeiro tesouro, e os verdadeiros tesouros não são ouro, mas algo mais imaterial, e o rapaz nunca iria ficar sem ele. Ele que deixasse a multidão banquetear-se com o brilho dourado do metal enquanto o seu cofre continuava cheio de bondade adamantina.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Os verdadeiros portadores de tesouros nunca deixam de o ser, mesmo quando não parece. As verdadeiras pessoas valiosas transportam consigo a bondade genuína, mesmo que não a consigamos ver agora, ela manifesta-se eventualmente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A bondade é um tesouro de diamante. É limitada em gemas, mas dura para sempre. O ouro é a bondade por cortesia, gasta-se depressa: se não houver mais nada por baixo, não vale de nada.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-912499248334905192?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/912499248334905192/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/05/22-treasure-tesouro.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/912499248334905192'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/912499248334905192'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' 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challenge for the first time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've been absent for about a week due to school-related business (doesn't that bother you all?), but I have returned now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The record stands for 21 texts in a row.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sim, quebrei o desafio pela primeira vez.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estive ausente durante cerca de uma semana por causa de assuntos da escola (isso não nos chateia a todos?), mas já regressei.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O recorde é de 21 textos seguidos.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-1905310572216055588?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/1905310572216055588/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/05/first-intermission-primeiro-intervalo.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/1905310572216055588'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/1905310572216055588'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/05/first-intermission-primeiro-intervalo.html' title='FIRST INTERMISSION | PRIMEIRO INTERVALO'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-5193128350373642485</id><published>2009-05-12T13:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-12T13:58:08.698-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life | vida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dream | sonho'/><title type='text'>21 AWAKE ASLEEP | ACORDADO ADORMECIDO</title><content type='html'>I'm dreaming.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm dreaming.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm dreaming.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm dreaming.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm dreaming.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm dreaming.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm dreaming.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I'm awake, even as the wide-eyed winged mole takes my hands in its paws and leads me across a thriving field of gigantic purple grass...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm awake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm awake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm awake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm awake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm awake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm awake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm awake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I'm dreaming, even as the line to the shop counter lazily diminishes in front of me and I'm about to know just how much the box of cereal in my hands is worth...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My heart is so silent right now... It usually screams in joy when I'm asleep...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estou a sonhar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estou a sonhar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estou a sonhar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estou a sonhar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estou a sonhar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estou a sonhar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estou a sonhar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas estou acordado, ainda que a toupeira de grandes olhos me leve as minhas mãos nas suas e me guie através de um resplandecente campo de erva púpura...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estou acordado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estou acordado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estou acordado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estou acordado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estou acordado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estou acordado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estou acordado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas estou a sonhar, ainda que a linha para o balcão da loja à minha frente diminua com preguiça e eu esteja prestes a saber quando custa a caixa de cereais na minha mão...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O meu coração está tão calado agora... Costuma gritar de alegria quando estou a dormir...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-5193128350373642485?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/5193128350373642485/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/05/21-awake-asleep-acordado-adormecido.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/5193128350373642485'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/5193128350373642485'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/05/21-awake-asleep-acordado-adormecido.html' title='21 AWAKE ASLEEP | ACORDADO ADORMECIDO'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-2633053173944736312</id><published>2009-05-11T13:37:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-11T13:37:45.472-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life | vida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hope | esperança'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dream | sonho'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sadness | tristeza'/><title type='text'>20 RAIN | CHUVA</title><content type='html'>Today it rained.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There was something almost poetic in the way the water dropped heavily from the heavens, as if it were a scattered angel sent on some sort of divine mission.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I stood beneath it as it fell, the silence enveloping me, only interrupted by the moist notes hitting my face.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The water was healing, it seemed to wash my mind and take all its worries with it, the mistakes, the bad decisions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The sun is shining now, and now I receive its gifts as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rebooted, reborn, my mind can dream once more today, grow under the sun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And if I happen to fail again, I'll just wait for the rain to give me another chance...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One day, there won't be rain and sun. One day, my dreams will grow wings and I'll raise far above the weather, feasting on the inaffable aether.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But let me rely on the light and the water for now... For now, just let my mind and dreams grow...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoje choveu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Havia algo quase poético na forma como a água se deixava cair dos céus, como se fosse um anjo espalhado mandado para uma missão divina qualquer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pus-me debaixo da chuva enquanto caía, o silêncio envolvendo-me, apenas interrompido pelas notas húmidas a bater-me na cara.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A água era revitalizadora, parecia lavar a minha mente e levar todas as preocupações consigo, os erros, as más decisões.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O sol agora brilha, e agora eu recebo as suas prendas também.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reiniciada, renascida, a minha mente pode sonhar novamente hoje, crescer debaixo do sol.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E se eu acabar por falhar outra vez, apenas esperarei que a chuva me dê mais uma oportunidade...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Um dia, não haverá nem chuva nem sol. Um dia, os meus sonhos crescerão asas e levar-me-ão muito acima do clima, banqueteando-me no inefável éter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas deixem-me confiar na luz e na água por agora... Por agora, apenas deixem a minha mente e os meus sonhos crescer...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-2633053173944736312?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/2633053173944736312/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/05/20-rain-chuva.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/2633053173944736312'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/2633053173944736312'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/05/20-rain-chuva.html' title='20 RAIN | CHUVA'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-4095169574635068575</id><published>2009-05-10T08:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-10T08:57:30.857-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life | vida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loneliness | solidão'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dream | sonho'/><title type='text'>19 A MAN | UM HOMEM</title><content type='html'>On this planet walked once a man, a person that soon stood out and gained fame throughout all the path he has walked. Ever since he was little his eyes would open wide and fixate on our nothing that must have been his everything, and ever since he learned to speak he'd explain that it wasn't on his waking hours that his attention centered itself, but on what he saw when he was asleep.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everyone who knew him, immediately interested in his very fertile imagination, started listening to him, to pay attention to the dream descritions he'd make, but while he spoke with all seriousness, his listeners just found his words as inventions and pure entertainment, they'd listen, smile, leave and soon forgot about what they had heard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the man would remain with his attention nailed in something more than this touchable world, and all his life he explored his own stories, through ways no one ever knew, until one day, after his friends asked for one more story, he refused, saying he had already discovered the truth, telling that he had already done all he could to help them find it too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because of that, the man was left alone for some time, and death soon claimed him for itself. His friends and listeners made him a worthy funeral, but all of them were surprised when they noticed the man had died smiling, despite the loneliness he had been subjected to on his last weeks of life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stranger still was the time after the man's death... Little by little, all the memory people had of him vanished at an abnormal rhythm, until there was nothing left but a constant feeling of déjà-vu, even in the ones that were close to him...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And even that feeling of déjà-vu was peculiar... Even without knowing who it was all about or what caused it, without knowing who the man had been anymore or the stories he'd tell, the reaction to that feeling was always an immense smile, somehow sensing, almost knowing, that the man's death had been something good...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's a shame they don't remember the stories... A shame they don't remember the man had found a truth... A shame they are now all alone here, with their own path of discoveries to walk...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Neste planeta caminhou uma vez um homem, uma pessoa que depressa se destacou e ganhou fama por todo o caminho que percorreu. Desde pequeno que os seus olhos se abriam muito e se fixavam no nada nosso que devia ser o tudo dele, e desde que aprendeu a falar, explicava que não era nas suas horas acordadas que a sua atenção se centrava, mas no que via quando estava a dormir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Todos os que o conheciam, imediatamente interessados na imaginação muito fértil dele, começaram a ouvi-lo, a prestar atenção às descrições de sonho que fazia, mas enquanto ele falava com toda a seriedade, os seus ouvintes apenas tomavam as suas palavras como invenção e puro entertenimento, ouviam, sorriam, iam-se embora e pouco mais pensavam sobre o assunto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas o homem permanecia com a sua atenção fixada em algo mais que este mundo palpável, e durante toda a vida explorou as suas próprias histórias, por formas que nunca ninguém soube, até que um dia, os amigos pedindo-lhe mais uma história, ele recusou-se, afirmando ter já descoberto a verdade, dizendo que já tinha feito o que podia para os ajudar a encontrá-la também.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por isto, o homem foi deixado sozinho por algum tempo, e a morte cedo o reclamou para si. Os seus amigos e ouvintes fizeram-lhe um funeral digno, e qual foi o seu espanto ao reparar que o homem havia morrido a sorrir, apesar da solidão a que havia estado sujeito nos seus últimos tempos de vida.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mais estranho ainda foi o tempo depois da morte do homem... Pouco a pouco, toda a memória que as pessoas tinham dele foi-se desvanecendo a um ritmo anormal, até restar nada mais que uma constante sensação de déjà-vu, mesmo naqueles que lhe eram mais chegados...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E mesmo essa sensação de déjà-vu era extremamente peculiar... Mesmo sem saber de quem se tratava ou o que a provocava, sem já saber quem tinha sido o homem ou as histórias que contava, a resposta a ela era sempre um grande sorriso, de alguma forma sentindo, quase sabendo, que a morte do homem tinha sido algo bom...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pena não se lembrarem das histórias... Pena não se lembrarem que o homem havia descoberto uma verdade... Pena estarem aqui agora sozinhos, com o seu próprio caminho de descobertas para percorrer...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-4095169574635068575?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/4095169574635068575/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/05/19-man-um-homem.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/4095169574635068575'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/4095169574635068575'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/05/19-man-um-homem.html' title='19 A MAN | UM HOMEM'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-7283283912394102591</id><published>2009-05-09T03:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-09T03:38:08.556-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beauty | beleza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship | amizade'/><title type='text'>18 DUCK | PATO</title><content type='html'>Poor is the duckling who has been banished, mocked by his own kind. Poor is the duckling for his looks, fortunately time was merciful and transformed it into the beautiful swan, loved, admired, almost worshiped.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But what was the problem with the duckling?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Haven't the ruffled and inflated feathers, the curvy and flat beak, the choked and rough voice the same right to be called pretty as the perfection and elegance of the swan?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love you, duckling, because I think perfection is the most perfect when you find it in the imperfect beings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The two of us shall walk together throughout this world, duckling, clumsy and quacking, being ducks forever, and one day as ducks we will be more loved than swans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pobre do patinho que foi escorraçado, gozado pelos seus semelhantes. Pobre do patinho pelo seu aspecto, felizmente o tempo foi misericordioso e transformou-o no belo cisne, adorado, admirado, quase venerado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas qual era o problema do patinho?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Será que as penas desalinhadas e insufláveis, o bico curvo e achatado, a voz engasgada e rouca não têm tanto direito a ser chamados bonitos como a perfeição e a elegância do cisne?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adoro-te, patinho, porque creio que a perfeição é mais perfeita quando está nos seres imperfeitos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Havemos de caminhar os dois por esse mundo fora, patinho, desajeitados e grasnantes, sendo patos para sempre, e um dia como patos seremos mais amados que os cisnes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-7283283912394102591?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/7283283912394102591/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/05/18-duck-pato.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/7283283912394102591'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/7283283912394102591'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/05/18-duck-pato.html' title='18 DUCK | PATO'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-3248652380805709388</id><published>2009-05-08T02:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-08T03:51:32.669-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life | vida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loneliness | solidão'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship | amizade'/><title type='text'>17 THEORY OF MERGING | TEORIA DA CONVERGÊNCIA</title><content type='html'>There are people that change our lives, alter its course in a seemingly minimal angle, but that, later, when we notice it, make that minimal alteration something huge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are people we remember for good things, bad things, or things in between, for things that perhaps didn't affect us that much, but we remember. There are people that mark us so much, teach us so much that we wouldn't be nothing of what we are now if they hadn't been there. There are people that stay with us forever, that always seem so close to us and nitid in front of us, even if they're on the other side of the universe and have changed so much.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Basically, all our life, all our identity, is a mixture of fragments of uncountable people, ones bigger than other, ones overshadowing the others, and those people are fragments of others as well. Each of us is unique because there aren't two sets of fragments that are exactly the same, but we are all connected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are all connected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Humanity is a gigantic, beautiful, perfect soul, we are separate shards of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When we are together, our sets of fragments come together too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe the purpose of life is actually that, to gather the scattered shards and to glue them together once more, to ressuscitate Humanity through comunication.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To merge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is my theory of merging.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Há pessoas que mudam a nossa vida, alteram o seu rumo num ângulo que nos parece mínimo ao início, mas, mais tarde, bem visto tudo, essa alteração mínima torna-se gigantesca.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Há pessoas de que nos lembramos por coisas boas, más, ou intermédias, por coisas que se calhar nem nos afectaram muito, mas nós lembramo-nos. Há pessoas que nos marcam tanto, nos ensinam tanto que nós não seríamos nada do que somos agora se elas não aqui estivessem. Há pessoas que ficam connosco para sempre, que nos parecem sempre tão perto e nítidas à nossa frente, mesmo que estejam do outro lado do universo e já tenham mudado muito.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No fundo, toda a nossa vida, toda a nossa identidade, é uma amálgama de fragmentos de inúmeras pessoas, uns maiores que os outros, uns que sobrepõem os outros, e, por sua vez, essas pessoas também são fragmentos de outras. Cada um de nós é único porque não há dois conjuntos de fragmentos iguais, mas estamos todos ligados.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estamos todos ligados.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Humanidade é uma alma gigante, belíssima, perfeita, nós somos pedaços separados dela.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quando estamos juntos, os fragmentos de cada um de nós juntam-se também.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Talvez nesta vida o objectivo seja mesmo esse, reunir os pedaços partidos e juntá-los novamente, ressuscitar a Humanidade através da comunicação.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Convergir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esta é a minha teoria da convergência.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-3248652380805709388?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/3248652380805709388/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/05/17-theory-of-merging-teoria-da.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/3248652380805709388'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/3248652380805709388'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/05/17-theory-of-merging-teoria-da.html' title='17 THEORY OF MERGING | TEORIA DA CONVERGÊNCIA'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-810121759860286822</id><published>2009-05-07T02:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-07T02:45:25.186-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life | vida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><title type='text'>16 THE BEAUTY OF SILK | A BELEZA DA SEDA</title><content type='html'>In any oriental city, where ancient traditions still rang on everyone's ears, there was a great factory whose final product was silk. A woman worked in that factory, being delivered torrents of silkworm coccoons every day, that she had to carefully unravel, irreversibly interrupting all dreams of tranformation of the creature inside.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The woman worked with silkworms, but she had never seeen anyone in its adult and free stage, because the coccoons would only have quality before they were ripped. The woman unravelled the coccoon and spinned the silk, got rid of the body of the creature that was neither worm nor butterfly and then watched the fabric being built on the other side, the gorgeous silk dripping from the hands of the people that handled it, kissing their hands with cold arrogance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But one day she decided she had had enough... Discreetly, she took a coccoon home and let it develop, let it rip by itself, let the small worm fulfil its purpose of life and emerge as a complete butterfly. The woman's reaction was complicated. This butterfly was far uglier than the others, it flew rather clumsily and she knew it would die soon, while the silk that would certainly come from it would be beautiful, elegant and eternal. But, at the sight of the winged creature swimming joyfully across the air, forcing its way through the sun beams in a constant excitement, the woman couldn't feel disappointed for letting this coccoon complete itself. The butterfly rested on the palm of her hand and its antennae kissed her fingers too, but this time with warm gratitude, with unbelievable energy. The woman smiled, understanding. Life. You could never put a price on it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Numa qualquer cidade oriental, onde as tradições antigas ainda soavam nos ouvidos de toda a gente, havia uma grande fábrica cujo produto final principal era a seda. Uma mulher trabalhava nessa fábrica, todos os dias lhe chegavam torrentes de casulos de bichos-da-seda, que ela tinha de desfiar com todo o cuidado, interrompendo irreversívelmente todos os sonhos de tranformação da criatura do seu interior.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A mulher trabalhava com bichos-da-seda, mas ela nunca tinha visto nenhum no seu estado adulto e livre, pois os casulos só teriam qualidade antes de serem rotos. A mulher desfiava o casulo e fiava a seda, desfazia-se do corpo morto da criatura que nem era larva nem borboleta e depois via o tecido a ser construído noutro lado, a belíssima seda a escorrer pelas mãos das pessoas que a manejavam, beijando-lhes os dedos com arrogância fria.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas um dia ela decidiu que era suficiente... Às escondidas, levou um casulo para casa e deixou-o desenvolver-se, deixou-o romper-se por si só, deixou o pequeno bicho cumprir o seu objectivo de vida e emergir como uma borboleta completa. A reacção da mulher foi complicada. Esta borboleta era muito mais feia que as outras, voava de uma forma muito deselegante e ela sabia que iria morrer muito em breve, enquanto que a seda que de certeza ela criaria seria lindíssima, elegante e eterna. Mas, ao ver o bicho alado a nadar alegremente pelo ar, forçando o seu camilho pelos raios de luz numa excitação constante, a mulher não pôde sentir-se desapontada por ter deixado este casulo completar-se. A borboleta pousou-lhe na palma da mãos e as suas antenas beijaram-lhe os dedos também, mas desta vez numa quente gratitude, numa inacreditável energia. A mulher sorriu, percebendo. Vida. Realmente não se lhe pode pôr um preço.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-810121759860286822?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/810121759860286822/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/05/16-beauty-of-silk-beleza-da-seda.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/810121759860286822'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/810121759860286822'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/05/16-beauty-of-silk-beleza-da-seda.html' title='16 THE BEAUTY OF SILK | A BELEZA DA SEDA'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-5135020298342108878</id><published>2009-05-06T07:31:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-06T07:32:46.671-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hope | esperança'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hero | herói'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sadness | tristeza'/><title type='text'>15 HERO | HERÓI</title><content type='html'>A huge crowd applauds, whistles and yells in a triumphant ecstasy, at watching the world in front of them finally saved, all the dangers efficiently defeated and, in the middle of them, with a smile from ear to ear and heart exploding with wonder, the hero that made this all possible, that by his hands and fate's wise choice was the author of this complete happiness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The hero passes by and the crowd applauds, but in between it, inside the clapping and the roaring, the sound of sarcasm and hipocrisy can be heard, the grimace of those who think this profecy fulfiller doesn't deserve this salutation can be seen, because having known that nothing bad would happen to this hero and his mission by order of fate, what was so difficult in accepting that mission? Anyone would do it...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I don't think that is true... Victory shines bright on the eyes of the hero, but so do his tears. Upon closer examination, you can see the shadows of the sad events, of the necessary sacrifices, of the past difficulties and of the horrors seen to get to it, and that these false "applauders" ignore. It's like being in a closed path not only with uncountable traps ahead but also with the promise of getting to the end to a great reward. Even though the happy ending is certain, courage is still needed to overcome the unhappy plot, motivation not to stop and keep going always, faith to believe that the final result will compensate the intermediary tragedies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't feel I'd have the courage to carry out such task, even if I were protected by a possible fate. That's why I applaud the heart of the hero who now passes by me, hero with a very well given title. There are things anyone could do, but no one does. Courage makes the only voluntary a hero.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uma multidão enorme aplaude, assobia e grita num triunfante êxtase, ao ver à sua frente o mundo finalmente salvo, todos os perigos eficientemente derrotados e, no meio deles, com um sorriso de orelha a orelha e o coração a explodir de maravilha, o herói que tornou tudo isto possível, que pelas suas mãos e por escolha sábia do destino foi o autor desta felicidade completa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O herói passa e a multidão aplaude, mas por entre ela ouve-se nalgumas palmas e urras o som do sarcasmo e da hipocrisia, vê-se o esgar de quem pensa que este cumpridor da profecia não merece esta saudação, pois sendo já sabido que nada de mal iria acontecer a este herói e à sua missão por ordem do destino, qual era a dificuldade de a aceitar? Qualquer um o faria...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas não creio que isso seja verdade... A vitória brilha forte nos olhos do herói, mas também as suas lágrimas. Com alguma atenção vê-se as sombras das tristezas, dos sacrifícios necessários, das dificuldades passadas e dos horrores vistos para a alcançar, e que estes falsos "aplaudidores" ignoram. É como estar num caminho fechado não só com inúmeras armadilhas em frente mas também com a promessa de que chegaremos bem ao fim para uma recompensa grandiosa. Apesar de um final feliz estar certo, ainda é necessária a coragem para ultrapassar o enredo infeliz, a motivação para não parar e avançar sempre, a fé para acreditar que o resultado final compensará as tragédias intermédias.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Não sinto que teria coragem para acarretar com tal tarefa, mesmo que estivesse protegida por um possível destino. Por isso aplaudo o coração deste herói que agora passa por mim, herói com o título muito bem atribuído. Há coisas que qualquer um pode fazer, mas ninguém faz. A coragem é o que faz do único voluntário um herói.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-5135020298342108878?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/5135020298342108878/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/05/15-hero-heroi.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/5135020298342108878'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/5135020298342108878'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/05/15-hero-heroi.html' title='15 HERO | HERÓI'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-3940546641139608787</id><published>2009-05-05T07:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-05T07:35:06.498-07:00</updated><title type='text'>14 WRITER | ESCRITOR</title><content type='html'>Damn the writer for his luck, because through the pen he adds lives to his life, from his thoughts he creates realities, because he takes such artifitial and cold things as words and gives them unexplainable energy and naturality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Damn the writer for his selfishness, for the way he imposes his vision of the world to the world, for the way he thinks we need the filter of his eyes to be happy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But blessed the writer because he shows us there are so many untouchable things in the life, and how to use them. Blessed him because he can give us hope for reality by through the unreal, whenever the real becomes unbearable. Blessed him because he satisfies a need I cannot describe, but without him I am no longer human.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sitting on his crossed legs, the writer makes the pen dance over the paper. His eyes see everything mine cannot and he transmits me everything, and with that simple piece of paper I become complete.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maldito é o escritor pela sua sorte, porque pela caneta acrescenta vidas à sua vida, a partir do que pensa cria realidades quase palpáveis, porque pega em coisas tão artificiais e frias como as palavras e dá-lhes uma energia e naturalidade inexplicáveis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maldito é o escritor pelo seu egoísmo, pela maneira como impõe a sua visão do mundo ao mundo, pela forma como está convencido que precisamos do filtro dos olhos dele para sermos felizes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas bendito é ele porque nos mostra que há tanta coisa não tangível nesta vida, e como usá-la. Bendito é ele porque nos consegue imprimir uma esperança no real pelo irreal, quando esse real se torna insuportável. Bendito é ele porque satisfaz uma necessidade que não consigo descrever, mas que sem ela deixo der humana.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sentado de pernas cruzadas, o escritor faz dançar a caneta pelo papel. Os seus olhos vêem tudo o que os meus não vêem e ele transite-me tudo, e com esse simples papel escrito torno-me completa.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-3940546641139608787?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/3940546641139608787/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/05/14-writer-escritor.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/3940546641139608787'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/3940546641139608787'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/05/14-writer-escritor.html' title='14 WRITER | ESCRITOR'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-9013246715449300897</id><published>2009-05-04T04:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-04T04:35:57.414-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dream | sonho'/><title type='text'>13 THE BOOK | O LIVRO</title><content type='html'>Every once in a while, without any apparent or hidden reason, while I'm worried with other matters, I find myself transported here through my world of dreams.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This enormous circular room little light has besides the stars and the moons weeping outside. This room is empty, but the patterns drawn upon the floor and the ceiling entertain my eyes for an eternity, the columns along the walls support the what's on them like the shoulders of a giant. This room is empty, except for the bookcase that circles it, right next to the wall. Because of that bookcase, the room is no longer empty: it has become an universe of bookes, of stories or of knowledge, I wouldn't know, for I think I'll never have the chance to explore it all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this room I don't know what to do, nor do I have here someone to help me know. Everytime I approach the bookcase and reach for a book, any book, I'm pulled from this intriguing place and I wake up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have I picked up the wrong book? But if I can only take one book of all those, how much time will it take to get it? Besides, why the heck would I want that book?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What a strange life this is... What a real dream this is...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes I wonder... do I live every moment of this life, surviving every day to be able to fall asleep and dream every night to finally get the right book?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What a complicated thought this is... what a silly idea...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De vez em quando, sem razão aparente ou escondida, enquanto estou preocupado com outros assuntos, vejo-me transportado para aqui pelo meu mundo de sonhos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esta sala enorme e circular pouca luz tem para além das estrelas e das luas que choram lá fora. Esta sala está vazia, mas os padrões desenhados no seu chão e tecto entretêm os meus olhos por uma eternidade, as colunas ao longo das paredes suportam o que está acima delas como os ombros de um gigante. Esta sala está vazia, excepto pela estante que que a circula encostada à parede. Por causa dessa estante, a sala não está mais vazia: tornou-se num universo de livros, de histórias ou de conhecimento, não sei, porque julgo que nunca terei a oportunidade de o explorar todo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nesta sala não sei o que devo fazer, nem aqui tenho ninguém que me ajude a saber. Sempre que me chego à estante e tiro um livro, um livro qualquer, vejo-me puxado deste lugar intrigante e acordo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ter-me-ei enganado no livro? Mas se só posso tirar um livro daqules todos, quando tempo me demorará a alcançá-lo? Aliás, mas para que raio quererei esse livro?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Que vida tão estranha, esta... Que sonho tão real, este...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por vezes penso... viverei cada momento desta vida, sobrevivendo a cada dia para poder dormir e sonhar a cada noite e conseguir encontrar o livro certo?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Que pensamento este... que ideia tão tola...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-9013246715449300897?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/9013246715449300897/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/05/13-book-o-livro.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/9013246715449300897'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/9013246715449300897'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/05/13-book-o-livro.html' title='13 THE BOOK | O LIVRO'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-579900806780424156</id><published>2009-05-03T03:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-03T04:20:19.816-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hope | esperança'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loneliness | solidão'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dream | sonho'/><title type='text'>12 MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE | MENSAGEM NUMA GARRAFA</title><content type='html'>He can barely remember how it happened: first the calm, the ocean waves gently pushing the small boat forward, then the dark, the sky frowning in grey and thunder, afterwards the storm, the pushing now furious, sending him to this island, this deserted island.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Determined to get out of there before the absence of the world he was used to drives him to despair, he, without any way to communicate at long distances, picks up a piece of paper that has survived the salty water's humid embrace and writes in it a help request and, without any other way to send it, he puts it inside a bottle, throwing it to the sea that has brought him there, hoping that this time its sense of direction is more fortunate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After this, without anything else to do but to trust in this (even if feeble and improbable) chance of escape, he goes on surviving, always keeping a keen eye on the horizon not to let help come and go without noticing him there because he was not alert for a while.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But it was not help that arrived at the shore some days later. Surprisingly, the same bottle is approaching hesitantly across the wet sand, but the man notices in awe that the paper inside it is not the same.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Curious, he runs to the bottle and opens it, eager fingers picking up the new paper and reading it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is, actually, the reply to his help request, but, ironically, this is a help request as well, coming from another of the ocean's castaways. He curses his luck for a moment, but then he realizes that at least, with this person somewhere near him, loneliness isn't complete. Making the most of the piece of paper, he writes and resends the bottle, in an attempt to make further contact.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, throughout these days, messagens were sent and received. Sometimes it took more time than usual to arrive and the man would worry, more frightened than he imagined when thinking that contact could be lost. In the messages, these two people got to know each other, know about the situation of the other and how they got there, the sea knowing a path that their human eyes could not perceive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As time went by, the more they talked across the distance, but now about themselves, dreams, wishes, past lives and the routined now imposed on them. On those written words, those almost routine-like conversations, he found a confort that he never thought possible to exist in there, that kept him sane until help came.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But weeks passed by and help wouldn't come.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And one day he ran out of paper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today the man is on the brink of despair. Messages aren't coming from the other side any longer and neither there is a single piece of paper to use. He has already tried to use the wide leaves of the trees, but the sap flowing abundantly from them erases the messages. Facing the ocean, he can almost see the path to that other soul that kept him alive, kept him human. In hopes of following that path, he swims, trying to find the current that always carried the bottle. Madness, maybe, but something has to be done. And the will power he bears is enough to overcome the ridiculous distance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A small dot of land is steady upon the ocean far away&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a few hours we shall know the result: if the waters consumed him for his courage, or if that other non-deserted island harbored him for his madness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ele mal se lembra como aconteceu: primeiro a calma, as ondas do mar gentilmente empurrando o pequeno barco para adiante, depois o escuro, o céu carregado de cinzento e trovão, de seguida a tempestade, empurrões agora furiosos, que mandaram-no de encontro a esta ilha, esta ilha deserta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Decidido a sair dali antes que a ausência do mundo a que estava habituado o leve ao desespero, ele, sem formas de comunicar a longas distâncias, pega num papel que sobreviveu ao húmido abraço da água salgada e escreve nele um pedido de socorro e, sem outra forma de o enviar, mete-o numa garrafa, atirando-a ao mar que ali o trouxe, esperando que desta vez o seu sentido de direcção seja mais feliz.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Após isto, sem mais nada que fazer senão confiar nesta hipótese (embora muito frágil e improvável) de escapatória, ele vai sobrevivendo, mantendo sempre um olho atento no horizonte, não vá a ajuda chegar e partir só porque ele estava desatento por um momento.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas não foi ajuda que lhe chegou à costa alguns dias mais tarde. Surpreendentemente, está a mesma garrafa a avançar hesitantemente pela areia molhada, mas o homem nota com espanto que o papel dentro dela não é o mesmo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Curiosíssimo, ele corre para a garrafa e abre-a, dedos ansiosos pegando no papel novo e lendo-o.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;É, na verdade, a resposta à sua mensagem de socorro, mas, ironicamente, também este papel é uma mensagem de socorro, vinda de uma outra pessoa naufragada pelo inconstante oceano. Ele amaldiçoa a sua sorte por momentos, mas depois percebe que pelo menos, com esta pessoa algures perto dele, a solidão não é total. Aproveitando o papel ao máximo, ele escreve e envia a garrafa de volta, numa tentativa de estabelecer um contacto mais profundo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Assim, ao longo destes dias, mensagens foram sendo enviadas e recebidas. Às vezes demoravam mais um pouco que o normal a chegar e o homem preocupava-se, mais assustado do que imaginava ao pensar que aquele contacto desapareceria. Nas mensagens, estas duas pessoas foram-se conhecendo, sabendo a situação do outro e como ali chegaram, o mar conhecedor de um caminho que os seus olhos humanos não eram capazes de ver.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Conforme o tempo passava, mais conversavam à distância, mas agora sobre eles próprios, sonhos, desejos, vidas passadas e a rotina que agora lhes foi imposta. Naquelas palavras escritas, naquelas conversas quase quotidianas, ele encontrava um conforto que nunca pensou poder haver ali, que o mantinha são até que a ajuda viesse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas semanas passaram e a ajuda não vinha.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E um dia o papel acabou.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoje o homem está à beira do desespero. Não vem nova mensagem do outro lado, nem um único pedacinho de papel que se aproveite. Já tentou as frondosas folhas das árvores, mas a seiva que flui delas abundantemente apaga a mensagem. Olhando o mar, quase que consegue ver o caminho até a essa outra alma que o manteve vivo, humano. Na esperança de seguir esse caminho, ele nada, tentando encontrar a corrente que sempre levou a garrafa. Loucura, talvez, mas algo tem de ser feito. E a força de vontade que traz é suficiente para transpor essa ridícula separação.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Um pequeno ponto de terra é firme sobre o oceano lá longe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Daqui a umas horas se saberá o resultado: se as águas o consumiram pela sua coragem, ou se essa outra ilha não-deserta o acolheu pela sua loucura.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-579900806780424156?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/579900806780424156/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/05/12-message-in-bottle-mensagem-numa.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/579900806780424156'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/579900806780424156'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/05/12-message-in-bottle-mensagem-numa.html' title='12 MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE | MENSAGEM NUMA GARRAFA'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-1013767516307084721</id><published>2009-05-02T02:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-02T04:06:50.972-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friendship | amizade'/><title type='text'>11 LETTER TO YOU | CARTA PARA TI</title><content type='html'>It was only yesterday that I was with you. It was a sunny day, full of light and blue and the small birds singing. We had an ice cream, we walked by the park, we played by the fountain, we talked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm so happy when I'm with you. It's like all my cells react to you with a smile. And I don't even touch you, but I always have your mark in me, I always feel embraced with care from you...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today you're not here. The sun still shines, the blue hasn't lost its colors neither have the birds lost their inspiration. Today's ice cream tastes the same, the park looks as beautiful as always, the fountain is still fresh, only the talk isn't verbal, but inside the heart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everything is like always because you're still with me, no matter how far you get. You saved your mark in me and I hold onto it and everything stays the same.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But it seems I'm beginning to forget your face, I need to remember all the details of your smile...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When this letter gets to you, come back please. And I promise I'll mark you again as well...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ainda ontem estava contigo. Foi um dia de sol, cheio de luz e azul e o canto dos passarinhos. Comemos um gelado, andámos pelo parque, brincámos na fonte, falámos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deixas-me tão feliz quando estou contigo. Parece que todas as minhas células reagem a ti com um sorriso. E nem se quer te toco, mas tenho sempre a marca de ti em mim, sinto-me sempre abraçado com carinho por ti...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoje já não estás cá. O sol continua a brilhar, o azul não perdeu a cor nem os passarinhos deixaram de estar inspirados. O gelado de hoje sabe-me igual, o parque parece-me tão bonito como sempre, a fonte ainda está fresca, só a conversa não é verbal, mas dentro do coração.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Está tudo como sempre porque ainda estás comigo, por mais que tu te afastes. Guardaste em mim a tua marca e eu agarro-me a ela e tudo fica igual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas parece-me que começo a esquecer-me da tua cara, preciso de me relembrar de todos os pormenores do teu sorriso...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quando te chegar esta carta, volta por favor. E eu prometo que te refaço a minha marca em ti também...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-1013767516307084721?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/1013767516307084721/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/05/11-letter-to-you-carta-para-ti.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/1013767516307084721'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/1013767516307084721'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/05/11-letter-to-you-carta-para-ti.html' title='11 LETTER TO YOU | CARTA PARA TI'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-1278576854821954024</id><published>2009-05-01T13:36:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-01T13:40:21.980-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hope | esperança'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sadness | tristeza'/><title type='text'>10 SITTING IN THE DARK | SENTADO NO ESCURO</title><content type='html'>You greet every day with that shining smile in your face, walking as if nothing could go wrong, as if the world were a story created just for you, holding hands with the things that matters the most to you in this life, an eternal light on your hand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But then that light bulb stops working, or for some reason you let it fall and it shatters, or you even leave it alone and someone takes it from you. Suddenly the smile vanishes and you cry, the happy ending of your story is ripped away, in the absence of light darkness crawls to embrace you, without the will to walk anymore, you sit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sitting in darkness, you close your eyes, there’s nothing but the abyss to see. But sitting with your eyes closed you ignore that even the dark follows the natural rhythm of things and changes and moves, you ignore that specks of trembling light are approaching, and if you give them your empty hand maybe you’ll find a new light bulb.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But as you are, what can you do? Sitting how can you move forward, with closed eyes how can you see your way ahead? The specks are gone, they called your name but you couldn’t believe your ears.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You should know that at the end of every darkness there is light, and that at the end of every light there is darkness. You should know that the two follow each other in an endless cycle, and that it isn’t difficult to reach the next one if you just keep going. You would know that if you opened your eyes and wouldn’t stop. Who stops, breaks the cycle. And out of this cycle there is no life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cumprimentas os dias com esse brilhante sorriso no rosto, andando como se nada te pudesse correr mal, como se o mundo fosse uma história criada só para ti, de mãos dadas com a coisa com a qual te importas mais nesta vida, uma luz eterna na tua mão.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas então essa lâmpada funde-se, ou por alguma razão deixa-la cair e ela parte-se, ou até mesmo deixa-la desprotegida e alguém ta tira. De repente o sorriso desaparece e tu choras, o final feliz da história é rasgado, na ausência da luz a escuridão rasteja para te abraçar, sem vontade para andar mais, ficas sentado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sentado na escuridão, fechas os olhos, nada há mais para ver senão o abismo. Mas sentado de olhos fechados ignoras que até o escuro segue o ritmo natural das coisas e muda e se move, ignoras que vultos de luz turva se aproximam, e que se lhes deres a mão vazia talvez encontres uma lanterna nova.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas assim como estás, que podes fazer? Sentado como podes avançar, de olhos fechados como podes ver o caminho em frente? Os vultos já seguiram, chamaram o teu nome mas tu não acreditaste nos teus ouvidos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Devias saber que no fim de cada escuridão há uma luz, e que no fim de cada luz há uma escuridão. Devias saber que as duas se sucedem num ciclo sem fim, e que não é difícil chegares ao seguinte se apenas avançares. Isso saberias se abrisses os olhos e não parasses. Quem pára, quebra o ciclo. E fora deste ciclo não há vida.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-1278576854821954024?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/1278576854821954024/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/05/10-sitting-in-dark-sentado-no-escuro.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/1278576854821954024'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/1278576854821954024'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/05/10-sitting-in-dark-sentado-no-escuro.html' title='10 SITTING IN THE DARK | SENTADO NO ESCURO'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-4884738667500903326</id><published>2009-04-30T02:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-30T02:30:31.213-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><title type='text'>09 RED HAIR, LIFE'S HAIR | CABELO RUIVO, CABELO DE VIDA</title><content type='html'>He had always been the most mocked boy at school. Not for his height, for his weight, for the shape of his head or uglyness, not for the way he dressed or walked or talked. He was mocked by the color of his hair.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a school where the crowd seen from the air was a mixture of black and brown dots, and, very seldom, of a clearer shade, a dot was set completely apart from the group, for the lively orange it had and made all eyes fall on it with great admiration. So, the boy was everyone's favorite target of teasing, students, workers and even teachers, and if life for a student is already complicated enough for a teenager still looking for his perfect place in the world, more complicated it is for one who had such rare red hair.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The quantity of nicknames they gave him would embarrass anyone, and the boy several times considered cutting his hair or dye it, end the torture for good, but the truth is he really had no problem with the orange covering his head neither could he understand exactly why it was such a motive for mockery. All the glow in that color was the glow of his personaly and of the energy he put in everything he did, and wasn't that something to be proud of?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One day, they announced the arrival of a new student. A fantastic girl that made everyone from her previous school miss her. After much expectation from everyone (after all, they spoke so well of her!), she came and, to everyone's great shock, the first thing to notice in her was the very very curly and very very red hair she had, that twisted its way to her shoulders and shone as brightly as a flame.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Needless to say, this girl became too a target for mockery. But it didn't take long for the first redhead to find her. Lucky them, befriending through their hair, they found in each other the perfect companion, for she too was the encarnation of life and energy, and that was what made her so wonderful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now they hold hands as they walk through the school, eyes only for the other and ears deaf to depreciative comments. Their orange hair glows like the sunrise on that dark night of ignorance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What's wrong with red hair, anyway? Maybe we won't ever understand that, but I always thought it was good for Man to have in himself a will of fire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ele sempre foi o rapaz mais gozado da escola. Não pela altura, pelo peso, pela forma da cara ou cabeça ou por fealdade, não pela forma como se vestia ou andava ou falava. Ele era gozado pela cor do cabelo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Numa escola onde a multidão vista de cima era um misto de pontos castanhos e negros, e, muito ocasionalmente, de um tom um pouco mais claro, um ponto destoava completamente do grupo, pelo cor-de-laranja vivo que apresentava e que fazia todos os olhos colarem-se admiradíssimos a ele. Assim, o rapaz era o alvo preferido de chacota de toda a gente, alunos, funcionários e mesmo professores, e se a vida de um estudante já é complicada para um adolescente ainda à procura do seu lugar perfeito no mundo, ainda mais complicada era para um que tinha um cabelo ruivo tão raro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A quantidade de alcunhas que lhe davam faria qualquer um envergonhar-se, e o rapaz muitas vezes considerou cortar o cabelo todo ou pintá-lo, acabar com aquela tortura de vez, mas a verdade é que ele não tinha problema nenhum com o cor-de-laranja que lhe cobria a cabeça, nem nunca percebeu exactamente o que havia nele para ser tanto motivo de gozo. Todo o brilho daquela cor era o brilho da sua personalidade e da energia que punha em tudo o que fazia, e não era isso um grande motivo de orgulho?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Um dia, anunciaram que uma aluna nova chegaria à escola. Uma rapariga fantástica que deixaria imensas saudades na escola de onde partira. Após muita espectativa de todos (afinal falavam tão bem dela!), ela chegou e, para grande choque de todos, a primeira coisa a notar nela era o encaracoladíssimo e extremamente ruivo cabelo que tinha, que espiralava o seu caminho até aos ombros dela e brilhava tanto como uma chama.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Escusado será dizer que esta rapariga também passou a ser alvo de chacota. Mas não demorou muito até o primeiro ruivo a encontrar. Que sorte para eles, empatizando-se pelo cabelo, descobriram um no outro o companheiro perfeito, pois também ela era uma encarnação da vida e da energia, e era isso que a tornava tão fantástica.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Agora caminham de mãos dadas pela escola, olhos só para o outro e ouvidos moucos aos comentários depreciativos. O seu cabelo laranja brilha como o nascer do sol naquela noite escura de ignorância.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Que há de errado no cabelo ruivo afinal? Talvez nunca se vá perceber, mas sempre pensei que era bom o Homem ter em si uma vontade de fogo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-4884738667500903326?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/4884738667500903326/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/04/09-red-hair-lifes-hair-cabelo-ruivo.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/4884738667500903326'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/4884738667500903326'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/04/09-red-hair-lifes-hair-cabelo-ruivo.html' title='09 RED HAIR, LIFE&apos;S HAIR | CABELO RUIVO, CABELO DE VIDA'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-7543289885657393031</id><published>2009-04-29T07:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-29T07:26:22.264-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loneliness | solidão'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='saudade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fanfiction'/><title type='text'>08 I LOVE YOU, PART 2 | AMO-TE, PARTE 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;I never had the will to follow a drunk man's random steps, but then again there's nothing young in their walk.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;I never felt my heart smiling at the laughter of a child, but then again their voice is too acute.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;I never felt the urge to savor a drop of honey, but then again its flavor is so sweet and not salty (although its color is perfect).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;I never felt complete while looking at this scorching sky, but then again this shade of blue is not enough.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;I never liked the orange of this sunset much, but then again I could never unzip it and reveal something even more beautiful beneath it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;I never had the desire to comb this golden sand, but then again it feels so rough and withered to the touch.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;I never felt interest in caressing the whiskers of a cat, but then again it's not really whiskers that I seek (actually, what really are those?)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;I never wanted to touch the fire that heats this desert night, but then again it's pleasure and not pain that I expect from a person's fire.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;I never knew so many parts of you were all around me, but all scattered, dead and imcomplete, they are not you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;The desert where I live has no life. You are life, yours and mine.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;|&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Nunca tive a vontade de acompanhar os passos desordenados de um bêbedo, mas também não há nada de jovial no seu andar.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Nunca senti o coração a sorrir com o riso de uma criança, mas também a sua voz é demasiado aguda.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Nunca me senti compelido a saborear uma gota de mel, mas também o seu sabor é tão doce e não salgado (apesar de a cor ser perfeita).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Nunca me senti completo a olhar este céu escaldante, mas também o tom de azul não é suficiente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Nunca gostei muito do cor-de-laranja deste pôr-do-sol, mas também não há forma de o desapertar e revelar algo mais belo por baixo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Nunca tive o desejo de pentear a areia dourada, mas também a sua textura é tão áspera e tão murcha.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Nunca me pareceu interessante passar os dedos pelos bigodes de um gato, mas também não são bem bigodes que procuro (realmente, o que serão?)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Nunca quis tocar o fogo que aquece esta noite do deserto, mas também é prazer e não dor que espero do fogo de uma pessoa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Nunca soube que tantas partes de ti estavam à minha volta, mas dispersas, mortas e incompletas, não és tu.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;O deserto onde vivo não tem vida. Tu és vida, a tua e a minha.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-7543289885657393031?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/7543289885657393031/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/04/08-i-love-you-part-2-amo-te-parte-2.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/7543289885657393031'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/7543289885657393031'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/04/08-i-love-you-part-2-amo-te-parte-2.html' title='08 I LOVE YOU, PART 2 | AMO-TE, PARTE 2'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-5017732751536789471</id><published>2009-04-28T06:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-28T07:43:28.005-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loneliness | solidão'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='saudade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fanfiction'/><title type='text'>07 I LOVE YOU, PART 1 | AMO-TE, PARTE 1</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;I miss elegance walking by my side, silence listening to my every word, white holding my hand, silk caressing my cheeks.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I miss cinnamon and incense invading my lungs, dark glasses filled with seawater imprisoning my eyes, vermillion feathers tickling my nose.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I miss the trembling of passionate and perfect skin to bring me safety, the moistness of a curious tongue to make me lose myself from this world, rough whimpers and needy moans to be myself again.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I miss the embrace and the movements so painful with pleasure, perhaps I miss an arm, a leg, my vision or hearing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I miss my heart's reflection, which is also the piece that completes me and gives meaning to all rest.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I miss you.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;You. How can my entire life fit just three letters...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;|&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Falta-me elegância a caminhar a meu lado, silêncio a ouvir as minhas palavras, branco a segurar-me na mão, seda a acariciar-me as faces.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Falta-me canela e incenso a invadir-me os pulmões, copos pretos cheios de mar a fixar os meus olhos, penas vermelho-sangue a fazer-me cócegas no nariz.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Falta-me o tremer de pele apaixonada e perfeita para me trazer segurança, a humidade de uma língua curiosa para me perder deste mundo, suspiros roucos e gemidos carentes para voltar a ser eu.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Falta-me o abraço e o movimento tão doloroso de prazer, falta-me talvez um braço, uma perna, a visão ou a audição.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Falta-me o reflexo do meu coração, que é também a peça-chave que me completa e dá sentido a tudo o resto.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Faltas-me tu.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tu. Como é que em duas letras cabe toda a minha vida...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-5017732751536789471?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/5017732751536789471/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/04/07-i-love-you-part-1-amo-te-parte-1.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/5017732751536789471'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/5017732751536789471'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/04/07-i-love-you-part-1-amo-te-parte-1.html' title='07 I LOVE YOU, PART 1 | AMO-TE, PARTE 1'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-5974730023947829390</id><published>2009-04-27T04:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-27T04:54:33.556-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dream | sonho'/><title type='text'>06 REALITY OF AN ILLUSION | A REALIDADE DE UMA ILUSÃO</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;In this life I live two lives. One during the day, another during the night.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Both are happy, both are under my control (or the most control a person can have over their life), in both I can do what I really want to.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;During the hours of light, I eat, I walk, I work and I have fun. I socialize with all the people who bring a smile to my lips and with some people that maybe don't, but in the end I can still feel good with myself. I look outside and I feel happy, I feel everything it's in its rightful place and everything works perfectly like this.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Then the hours of darkness arrive. Having finished my daily routine, I get in bed and fall asleep, and it's my second life that emerges from there. In my dreams I find you everyday, in my dreams we live in a city completely unlike the one I see on my daily life, because of the fog and all the fantastic elements added to it, in my dremas I'm happy too because I bizarrely control everything I do, and you are always there. We don't do exactly what I do when I'm awake (after all, why am I dreaming? Don't I deserve to be a bit excentric?), and maybe that's why this second life is so happy, because it completes the other and makes me whole.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So, lucky me, I live this life fully in two separate lives, one touchable and lucid, the other one a tad more excentric but just as lucid. Since I always control what I do, dream and reality complement each other, and maybe the good mood of one is the cause and consequence of the good mood of the other, maybe dream is really just as real as awakeness and is of vital important to it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Living rationally I'm happy when awake, because I dream with my heart everytime I sleep happily. Maybe if I daydreamed or tried to bring some order to my wishes when asleep I wouldn't be as happy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I'm lucky to be like I am, because I can use both parts of my life the best way.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Life is made of balance: dream and awakeness is the most complicated balance to mantain.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;|&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Nesta vida levo duas vidas. Uma durante o dia, outra durante a noite.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ambas são felizes, ambas estão sob o meu controlo (ou o máximo que uma vida pode estar sob o controlo de alguém), em ambas faço aquilo que realmente quero.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Durante as horas de luz, como, passeio, trabalho e divirto-me. Convivo com todas as pessoas que me trazem um sorriso à cara e com algumas que talvez não, mas consigo no fim sentir-me bem comigo. Olho para lá para fora e sinto-me feliz, sinto que tudo está no lugar certo e tudo assim funcionará perfeitamente.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Até que chegam as horas de escuridão. Acabada a minha rotina diária, enfio-me na cama e adormeço, e é essa segunda vida que emerge daí. Nos meus sonhos encontro-te todos os dias, nos meus sonhos vivemos numa cidade que é em nada parecida à que vejo durante a minha vida diurna, pelo nevoeiro e por todos os elementos fantásticos nela acrescentados, nos meus sonhos também sou feliz porque estranhamente controlo o que faço, e tu estás sempre lá. Não fazemos exactamente o que eu faço quando estou acordado (para que quero eu sonhar afinal? Não tenho o direito de ser excêntrico?), e se calhar é por isso que esta segunda vida é tão feliz, porque completa a outra e me torna numa pessoa inteira.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Assim, sortudo, vivo esta vida completamente em duas vidas, uma concreta e lúcida, a outra mais excêntrica mas igualmente lúcida. Porque me controlo sempre, sonho e realidade complementam-se, e talvez o bom humor de um seja a causa e consequência do bom humor do outro, talvez o sonho seja mesmo tão real como a vigília e tenha uma importância vital para ela.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Vivendo racionalmente sou feliz acordado, porque sonho com o coração sempre que durmo. Talvez se sonhasse acordado e tentasse pôr ordem aos meus desejos enquanto durmo não seria tão feliz.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tenho sorte de ser como sou, pois posso usar as duas partes da vida em mim da melhor forma.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A vida é feita de equilíbrio: sonho e vigília é o mais complicado equilíbrio de se manter.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-5974730023947829390?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/5974730023947829390/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/04/06-reality-of-illusion-realidade-de-uma.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/5974730023947829390'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/5974730023947829390'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/04/06-reality-of-illusion-realidade-de-uma.html' title='06 REALITY OF AN ILLUSION | A REALIDADE DE UMA ILUSÃO'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-1918700590304129420</id><published>2009-04-26T03:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-26T04:23:10.337-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hope | esperança'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><title type='text'>05 RANTS OF A CATERPILLAR | LAMÚRIAS DE UMA LAGARTA</title><content type='html'>I'm here to tell you I'm really distressed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've gotten out of my egg a few days ago and I early understood my life would be an immense complication. I was born as an horrible caterpillar. So ugly all the other insects point at me and laugh. So fat that very few leaves can support my weight. So big it is very easy for a bird to notice me and catch me. And, above all, I am without any kind of control of what I do, for what can a caterpillar's thought do against the gigantic sense of natural instinct that commands it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But one would expect that this instinct, that Nature would know how to solve my problems. Maybe a better nutrition, maybe some more physical exercise... Maybe, if I really got lucky, something to better my aestethics. But no, of course not...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All my instinct makes me do is to eat more, to get even fatter, to use all my time to pig out on leaves that don't even taste that good (besides, can you imagine how much crap happens on them? Can you see what I am subjected to?). I'm much, much bigger than when I was born, and  now I'm even ashamed to walk around like this, like the Nature's puppet I am...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But now, it seems, the fattening has ended. Now I felt like grabbing myself to a little twig and vomiting something liquid and gross, something that transforms into some kind of thread when it comes out. What the heck? Are they expecting me to just hang myself here?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But no, this gets better! After all, this thread is envelopping me, my fat linear body, and my instinct must have forgotten all about my claustrophoby. I unwillingly lock myself in this tight coccoon, where the light won't come in and I asked myself what the purpose of all this is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Soon begins the pain (no one told me it would hurt this much). It feels like my body is ripping open in the middle and somebody's stitching it together, it feels like a million tiny hands are tugging at each millimeter of my already exaggeratedly stretched skin. There is so much pain and it seems so meaningless... I fall asleep, thinking about what awaits me, if I have just built my own coffin (instinct is so ironic!) or if this is just one more vehicle to another ridiculous mission.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Time passes by. A some point, I'm forced to get out. But what is this, as I move I seems like more things are moving as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I open a hole on this coccoon. With some effort, this hole becomes a fissure and I can see the sunlight again. And sunlight lets me see myself too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where have the fat, the ugliness, the size gone? What are these things poking out of my back? They're all wet now, but they soon dry up and I begin moving them. I'm admired with their size, with the drawings on them, orange with a complicated patter of dark lines, aren't they too beautiful to belong to me?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I begin moving them faster, and before I know it I'm no longer with my paws on firm ground...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I fly towards a flower with these wings, an extremely narrow tube comes out from my mouth and such a sweet syrup trails its way into it...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then I understand. All the sacrifice, the exaggerated food and the loneliness, they were gifts from instinct to turn me into this beautiful being.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I fly happily now that I realize the reasons for my effort, now that I know that sometimes awful experiences open doors to gorgeous realities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm a butterfly and I fly now. I was once a caterpillar that only ate. Following my instinct, maybe 'll be something even better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the corner of the eye, I see a very handsome hunk just standing there. Instinct takes me to him. This time I even follow it with pleasure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Venho-vos dizer que me sinto mesmo incomodada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saí do meu ovo há uns dias atrás e desde cedo percebi que a minha vida ia ser uma grande complicação. Nasci como uma larva horrível. Tão feia que todos os outros insectos apontam para mim e riem-se. Tão gorda que poucas folhas aguentam o meu peso. Tão grande que é muito fácil um pássaro saber onde estou e apanhar-me. E, acima de tudo, sem nenhum controlo daquilo que faço, pois que pode o pensamento de uma lagarta contra o enorme instinto natural que a rege?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas seria de esperar que este instinto, que a Natureza soubesse resolver os meus problemas. Talvez uma melhoria na minha alimentação, mais um pouco de exercício físico... Talvez, se tivesse sorte, alguma coisa para melhorar a minha estética. Mas não, claro que não...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tudo a que o meu instinto me obriga é a comer ainda mais, a engordar ainda mais, a empregar todo o meu tempo a encher-me de folhas que nem se quer sabem muito bem (aliás, imaginam a quantidade de porcaria que se passa em cima delas? Estão a ter uma ideia daquilo a que me sujeitam?). Tenho mais do triplo do tamanho que tinha quando nasci, e agora até tenho vergonha de andar por aí como estou, como a marioneta da Natureza que sou...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas, pelos vistos, a engorda terminou. Agora lembrei-me de me agarrar a um pauzinho e deitar uma coisa líquida e nojenta da boca, uma coisa que se transforma numa espécie de fio quando vem cá para fora. Mas que raio? Não devem estar à espera que eu me pendure aqui?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas não, a situação ainda melhora! Afinal este fio está a enrolar-se a mim, à volta do meu corpo linear engordado durante tanto tempo, e o meu instinto deve-se ter esquecido da minha claustrofobia. Fecho-me sem querer neste casulo apertado, onde a luz não entra e eu me pergunto qual o objectivo de tudo isto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cedo começa a dor (ninguém me disse que ia doer tanto). Parece que o meu corpo se está a abrir ao meio e o estão a coser de volta, parece que um milhão de mãos minúsculas estão a puxar por cada milímetro da minha pele já exageradamente esticada. A dor é tanta e tudo parece tão sem sentido... Adormeço, pensando no que me espera, se acabei de construir o meu caixão (que ironia do instinto!) ou apenas um veículo para outra missão ridícula.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O tempo passa. A certo ponto, sou obrigada a sair. Mas que é isto, quando me mexo parece que mais coisas se mexem também.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Abro um buraco no casulo. Com algum esforço, este buraco transforma-se numa fenda e eu vejo novamente a luz do sol. E a luz do sol faz-me ver a mim também.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Que é feito da gordura, da fealdade, do tamanho? Que coisas são estas que me saem das costas? Estão molhadas agora, mas depressa secam e eu começo a movê-las. Fico admirada com o seu tamanho, com o desenho nelas, laranja com um complicado padrão de linhas pretas, não são demasiado bonitas para serem minhas?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Começo a movê-las mais depressa, e de repente sinto que já não estou mais no chão...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voo em direcção a uma flor com estas asas, um tubo finíssimo sai-me da boca e um líquido tão doce escorre para ele...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E então eu percebo. Todo o sacrifício, a comida exagerada e o isolamento, eram prendas do instinto para me tornar neste ser tão belo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voo feliz agora que compreendo a razão do meu esforço, agora que sei por vezes as experiências desagradáveis abrem portas a realidades lindíssimas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sou uma borboleta e voo agora. Já fui uma lagarta que só comia. Seguindo o meu instinto, talvez serei algo ainda melhor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do canto do olho vejo um jeitoso ali pousado. O instinto leva-me a ele. Desta vez até o sigo com prazer.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-1918700590304129420?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/1918700590304129420/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/04/05-rants-of-caterpillar-lamurias-de-uma.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/1918700590304129420'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/1918700590304129420'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/04/05-rants-of-caterpillar-lamurias-de-uma.html' title='05 RANTS OF A CATERPILLAR | LAMÚRIAS DE UMA LAGARTA'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-4628914450525035024</id><published>2009-04-25T02:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-25T04:03:44.924-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sadness | tristeza'/><title type='text'>04 HEART OF SOUND | CORAÇÃO DO SOM</title><content type='html'>Melancholy is a constant in his life. It's a painless sadness, because her permanent company has made her a friend, and friendship isn't meant to hurt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everytime this known friend knocks on his door, he gets it with all his niceness, he opens the door with no hesitation, lets her sit on his couch and, as she cries, he entertains her always in the same way, the way he is sure to please both.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An electric bass is fished from a corner of his closet and he connects its umbilical cord to the mother-plug, just to run his fingers over it in a well-known yet ever-changing rhythm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cry of melancholy is the muse of the notes he plays, notes that are always low, quick and energic, but with a certain characteristic in all of them that makes all that pass by tear up, makes them be followed by sadness too, the kind that hurts because there hasn't been enough time to create friendships.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With sadness's company he makes art, he creates beauty, he redefines music. The tears that run down his listeners' faces (but not down his own) sting in their eyes. But the stinging normally means healing, and their souls, through music, are liberated from pain and melancholy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Through the melodies he plays even the sadness of his notes gets lost and transforms itself in mere inspiration, in a blank canvas, inside the ones who listen. Evantually, he ends up being the only one in constant melancholy, for now the sounds that browse for listeners bring only hope in their hearts. Eventually, he is the only sad one left because he won't cry, while the ones who cried are now smiling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that makes him think.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps entertaining, trying to cheer melancholy uo in his couch as she cries is not the solution. Perhaps he should sit down with her and accompany her in her crying. Perhaps, if he really did that, after the salt of his tears faded he could also hear the motivation all others could in his music.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps that way happiness would become the muse of his notes...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, in the meanwhile, he still has something to do with this muse... He still has his sadness to entertain, the others' to relieve...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A melancolia é uma constante na vida dele. É uma tristeza que já não dói, porque a sua permanente companhia já a transformou numa amiga, e a amizade não tem por objectivo magoar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sempre que esta conhecida amiga lhe bate à porta, ele atende-a com toda a simpatia, abre-lhe a porta sem hesitar, deixa-a sentar-se no seu sofá e, enquanto ela chora, entretém-na sempre da mesma forma, da maneira que sabe que vai agradar a ambos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Um baixo eléctrico é pescado de um recanto do seu armário e ele liga-lhe o cordão umbilical à tomada-mãe, apenas para lhe correr os dedos por cima num ritmo já conhecido mas em constante mudança.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O choro da melancolia é musa das notas que ele toca, notas em tudo graves, rápidas e enérgicas, mas com uma certa característica em todas elas que faz aqueles que passam lacrimejar, os faz ser acompanhados também pela tristeza, do tipo que magoa pois não houve tempo de criar amizades.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Acompanhado pela tristeza ele faz arte, ele cria beleza, ele redefine a música. As lágrimas que correm pelas faces dos seus ouvintes (mas não pela sua) ardem-lhes nos olhos. Mas o arder é normalmente significado de cura, e as suas almas, através da música, são libertadas da dor da melancolia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Através das melodias que toca até a tristeza das notas se perde e se transforma apenas em inspiração, numa tela vazia, dentro daqueles que o ouvem. Eventualmente, acaba ele por ser o único em constante melancolia, porque agora os sons que procuram ouvintes trazem apenas esperança no seu coração. Eventualmente, fica ele o único triste porque não chora, enquanto os que choravam agora sorriem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E isto fá-lo pensar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Talvez entreter e tentar alegrar a melancolia no seu sofá enquanto chora não é a solução. Talvez devesse sentar-se com ela e acompanhá-la no choro. Talvez, se fizesse mesmo isso, após o sal das lágrimas ele pudesse também ouvir a motivação que todos ouvem na sua música.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Talvez assim arranjasse a felicidade como musa das suas notas...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas entretanto, ainda tem que fazer com esta musa... Ainda tem a sua tristeza para entreter, a dos outros para aliviar...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-4628914450525035024?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/4628914450525035024/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/04/04-heart-of-sound-coracao-do-som.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/4628914450525035024'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/4628914450525035024'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/04/04-heart-of-sound-coracao-do-som.html' title='04 HEART OF SOUND | CORAÇÃO DO SOM'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-8239605849229904052</id><published>2009-04-24T02:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-24T16:30:24.068-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><title type='text'>03 THE ANATOMY OF A SMILE | A ANATOMIA DE UM SORRISO</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;I never really knew what makes a smile.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;My life had always been a descending rollercoster and even though, just like the real ones, it occasionally had its ups, unfortunately I never knew how to enjoy them, always preferring getting prepared for the unavoidable down with a face without expression, a heart without warmth.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The city around me was with me in this rollercoster, taking all the seats it had to offer in a sober order, and even if the "keep your arms in the cart at all times" sign weren't there perfectly showing, I'm sure no one of them would feel the adrenaline of breaking that almost unnecessary rule, not one of them (and not even me) would even try to have some fun out of the descend with their arms up in the air.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;There are so many reasons why I smiled so seldom... Some of them almost seem like stupid excuses, but others are completely real. And even when I forced my lips into a curve, I knew well I wasn't smiling, because a smile isn't supposed to hurt so much, and neither was I supposed to want it to end quickly. Even if it looked pretty and perfect, that fake smile was invisible to the people who can see the invisible, and those people would see my face squirming in a squint of pain.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I really never knew what makes a smile. Until you came.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It was your same smile that made you stand out of the grey crowd, your spring-like explosion of color and warmth had a glow that almost hurt my eyes (just like that first beam of sunlight when you open the window after the dark night), and it didn't take much to have all my attention nailed on you.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I spoke to you and you spoke to me. Just speaking to you alone made me feel my lips curve. It was obvious you weren't from around, but nonetheless you helped me, and in a way so easy and practical you explained me everything, you answered all my questions.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;What makes a smile, then?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Every day we did something new, something unusual even for the excentric people, something we had never tried before. Jump into the ducks' lake and mimic their clumsy swimming; pick up flowers forced to grown in a particular order in an artificial garden and feel the (finally free) petals falling on our heads, sing and dance in the middle of the street, offer a hello or a present not purchased with money to random people.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Smiles were the obvious result of these experiences: the given and the received, all of them memorable, all of them real.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We also tried simpler things, non-routine things, but easier to accomplish. You talked to me of everything I had never talked about to anyone, you held my hand as we walked, you kissed me whenever you wanted (curvy kisses, since they took the shape of our lips), you held me everytime our hearts wanted to speak in private, you made love to me everytime all the rest wasn't enough for you to show me the meaning of the glow in your eyes. Another flood of real smiles.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And then I understood.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A smile is nothing more than the natural and positive reaction to a break of our routines, it is a beautiful and contagious invitation for variety to our lives.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ever since you came into my life smiles have succeeded themselves endlessly, because to every invitation of mine you reply with a new one, and actually this world (even this city dying at heart) has limitless living possibilities, all it takes to find them is look for them and act spontaneously.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now that I understand, we walk here together, two spots of glow in the grey ocean. Today we are here and doing this, tomorrow we'll maybe be somewhere else, but doing something different for sure.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If only people weren't blind to our glow! If only that glow could hurt their eyes for a mere second just to help them open forever afterwards!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;|&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Nunca soube muito bem o que faz um sorriso.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A minha vida sempre foi uma montanha-russa descendente e apesar de, como as verdadeiras, ter ocasionalmente os seus altos, infelizmente nunca os soube aproveitar, preferindo sempre preparar-me para o inevitável baixo seguinte com uma cara sem expressão, um coração sem calor.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A cidade à minha volta estava comigo nesta montanha-russa, ocupando todos os bancos que ela tinha para oferecer numa ordem sóbria, e mesmo que o sinal de "manter sempre os braços dentro do carrinho" não estivesse lá bem à mostra, tenho a certeza que nenhum deles sentiria a adrenalina de quebrar essa regra que quase parece desnecessária, nenhum deles (nem mesmo eu) tentaria alguma vez tirar alguma diversão da descida com os braços bem no ar.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;São tantas as razões porque sorria tão pouco... Algumas quase parecem desculpas mal-feitas, mas outras são completamente reais. E mesmo quando forçava os meus lábios numa curva, bem sabia que não estava a sorrir, porque não é suposto um sorriso doer tanto, nem é suposto querermos que ele acabe tão depressa. Mesmo que parecesse bonito e perfeito, este falso sorriso era invísivel àqueles que conseguem ver o invisível, e esses veriam a minha cara contorcida num esgar de dor.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nunca soube muito bem o que faz um sorriso. Até tu chegares.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Foi o teu mesmo sorriso que te realçou da multidão cinzenta, a tua explosão primaveril de cor e calor tinha um brilho que quase me fazia doer os olhos (como aquele primeiro raio de sol quando abrimos a janela após a noite escura), e não foi preciso muito para ter toda a minha atenção pregada em ti.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Eu falei-te e tu falaste-me. Só de falar contigo já me sentia os lábios a curvar-se. Era óbvio que não eras de cá, mas mesmo assim ajudaste-me, e de uma forma tão simples e prática explicaste-me tudo, respondeste a todas as minhas perguntas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;O que faz um sorriso então?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Todos os dias fizemos uma coisa nova, uma coisa invulgar até para as pessoas excêntricas, uma coisa que nunca tivéssemos experimentado. Saltar para o lago dos patos e imitá-los na sua natação desajeitada, arrancar flores forçadas a crescer numa certa ordem num jardim artificial e sentir as pétalas (finalmente livres) a cair-nos na cabeça, cantar e dançar no meio da rua, oferecer um olá ou uma prenda não comprada com dinheiro a pessoas aleatórias.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sorrisos foram o resultado óbvio destas experiências: os dados e os recebidos, todos eles memoráveis, todos eles genuínos.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tentámos ainda coisas mais simples, não rotineiras, mas mais alcançavéis. Falaste comigo sobre tudo o que eu nunca tinha falado a ninguém, deste-me a mão enquanto caminhávamos, beijaste-me sempre que quiseste (beijos curvos, pois tomavam a forma dos nossos lábios), abraçaste-me sempre que vinha a vontade de os corações comunicarem, fizeste amor comigo sempre que tudo o resto não era suficiente para me mostrares tudo o que o brilho no teus olhos significava. Mais uma inundação de sorrisos verdadeiros.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;E então eu percebi.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;O sorriso não é nada mais que a reacção natural e positiva a uma quebra de rotina, é um convite belo e contagioso à variedade na nossa vida.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Desde que chegaste a minha vida tem sido sorriso atrás de sorriso, porque a cada convite meu tu respondes com um novo, e na verdade este mundo (até mesmo esta cidade moribunda de coração) tem possibilidades de vivências infinitas, só é preciso procurar e espontaneamente agir.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Agora que compreendo, andamos por aqui os dois, duas manchas de brilho no mar cinzento. Hoje aqui e a fazer isto, amanhã talvez noutro lado, mas de certeza a fazer algo diferente.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Que as pessoas não sejam cegas ao nosso brilho! Que o brilho lhes faça doer os olhos por um segundo para ajudar a abri-los para sempre depois!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-8239605849229904052?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/8239605849229904052/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/04/03-anatomy-of-smile-anatomia-de-um.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/8239605849229904052'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/8239605849229904052'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/04/03-anatomy-of-smile-anatomia-de-um.html' title='03 THE ANATOMY OF A SMILE | A ANATOMIA DE UM SORRISO'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-966140393906689841</id><published>2009-04-23T03:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-23T04:11:09.001-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loneliness | solidão'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='humanity | humanidade'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happiness | alegria'/><title type='text'>02 THE IMPORTANCE OF A HELLO | A IMPORTÂNCIA DE UM OLÁ</title><content type='html'>"Hello."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a curious whim, the girl wanted to look up the word in the dictionary. Of course she knew the meaning of such a basic word, but it was always good to know if the people who understand more about words than her shared her opinion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, after turning each page of the dictionary with some enthusiasm, she found out that they didn't... The definition she found was ordinary, incomplete. It identified "hello" as a mere interjection, a word like so many others that incidentally also had the purpose of greeting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unsatisfied with that result, the girl ran to her computer, this time looking up the word through the technology she had learned to call the Internet. And this time she got even more disappointed: the definition for "hello" did not exist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saddened with all this, the girl decided to get out of the house. She had to make sure that the word "hello" hadn't lost the gigantic meaning she had always given to it, she had to understand if these people that took care of the official definitions of things weren't wrong.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was a very simple procedure. While she kept walking down the street, the girl would say "hello" to everyone who passed by her. A dog, a boy, a young man, a young woman, an old lady.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of them stared dumbfounded at her at the beginning. It was almost rude to be approached like this. But eventually all of them thought it through and felt embarrassed for thinking that way, because rude was not returning the given niceness. They ended up saying "hello" too (except for the dog, who went ahead and licked her fingers kindly), glad that they had been reminded of that lesson.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The girl couldn't know because she had not the ability to read minds, but each hello, each lesson reminded had the same impact on each of its student.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The dog, always used to be ordered away from human company, carried on now with his tail waggling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The boy, who had always considered girls boring and stuck up, smiled at this pleasant surprise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The young man had already been very happy, for the memorable moments he had spent with his girlfriend before, but that instant of contact made him smile even more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The young woman, who had been completely disappointed by her day so far, transformed that greeting into a hope for things to get better and held onto it till the next day, a new day now full of joy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The old lady, that recognized her own granddaughter in the girl, to whom she didn't speak for such a long time, got home and phoned that same part of her family, enjoying the best hours in her life since so long, talking and sharing, absorbing the torrent of laughter that was her granddaughter's voice, that ran through the telephone wire and flooded her with happiness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The girl couldn't know of any of that, but she saw the smile in each and every one of them, and realized that, fortunately, nothing had changed at all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The word "hello" was still the most important one, not only because it breaks through distance and loneliness but also because it spreads joy and genuine care. It unites humanity in the unique strength and light it should be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The word "hello" has many sinonyms, it's true, and can be translated to many languages, that's right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But all those sinonyms and translations have in themselves the same heart, the same powerful heart that is the key to true humanity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The girl returned home. She had a letter to write to the ladies and gentlemen of the dictionary and to the ladies and gentlemen of the Internet, because something had to be done regarding that mistake. And the girl would start her letter with a big, fat HELLO.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;|&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Olá."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Num capricho curioso, a menina quis procurar a palavra no dicionário. Claro que ela sabia o significado desta palavra tão básica, mas era sempre bom saber se as pessoas que entendem mais de palavras partilhavam da sua opinião.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Porém, após folhear o dicionário com um certo entusiasmo, ela descobriu que pelos vistos não... A  definição que encontrou era vulgar, incompleta. Identificava "olá" apenas como uma interjeição, uma palavra igual a tantas outras que por acaso também tinha a função de saudação.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Não satisfeita com este resultado, a menina correu para o computador, desta vez procurando a definição da palavra através da tecnologia que aprendeu a chamar Internet. E desta vez ainda ficou mais desiludida: a definição de "olá" não existia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tristíssima com tudo isto, a menina saiu à rua. Tinha de se certificar de que a palavra "olá" não tinha perdido a importância tão grande que ela sempre lhe deu, tinha de perceber se estas pessoas que tratavam das definições oficiais não estariam enganadas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O processo foi muito simples. Conforme avançava pela rua, a menina dizia olá a toda a gente que passava por ela. Um cão, um menino, um homem jovem, uma mulher jovem, uma senhora idosa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Todos eles olharam a início estupefactos para ela. Era quase rude serem abordados desta forma. Mas todos eventualmente pensaram melhor e sentiram-se envergonhados por este pensamento, porque o rude era mesmo o não retribuir da simpatia. Acabaram também por dizer olá de volta (excepto o cão, que foi mais além e lhe lambeu os dedos das mãos carinhosamente) com cortesia, contentes por estarem relembrados desta lição.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A menina não pôde saber porque não tinha a capacidade de ler mentes, mas cada olá, cada lição relembrada teve o mesmo impacto em cada aluno.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O cão, sempre habituado a ser expulso da companhia das pessoas, avançava agora com a longa cauda a abanar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O menino, que sempre considerou as meninas umas aborrecidas e convencidas, sorriu ao ver que esta era uma boa surpresa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O jovem já vinha a caminhar muito feliz, pelos memoráveis momentos que acabara de passar com a namorada, mas aquele momento de contacto ainda o fez sorrir mais.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A jovem, decepcionadíssima com o seu dia até então, transformou aquela saudação numa esperança de melhoras e a ela se agarrou até ao dia seguinte, que já foi cheio de alegria.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A senhora idosa, que viu na menina a neta com quem não falava há tanto tempo, chegou a casa e telefonou a essa mesma parte da sua família, passando as melhores horas desde há tanto tempo, conversando e partilhando, absorvendo aquela torrente de riso que era a voz da sua neta e que escorria pelo fio do telefone, inundando-a de felicidade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A menina não pôde saber de nada disso, mas viu o sorriso de cada pessoa, e percebeu que, felizmente, nada havia mudado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A palavra "olá" ainda era a mais importante, não só porque estilhaça a distância e a solidão mas também porque alastra a alegria e o carinho genuíno. Junta a humanidade na força e luz única que devia ser.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A palavra "olá" tem muitos sinónimos, é verdade, pode ser traduzida em inúmeras línguas, é certo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas todas esses sinónimos e traduções têm em si o mesmo coração, o poderoso coração que é a chave para a verdadeira humanidade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A menina regressou a casa. Tinha uma carta a escrever aos senhores e senhoras do dicionário e aos senhores e senhoras da Internet, porque alguma coisa tinha de ser feita acerca daquele erro. E a menina iria começar a sua carta com um grande e gordo OLÁ.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-966140393906689841?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/966140393906689841/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/04/02-importance-of-hello-importancia-de.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/966140393906689841'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/966140393906689841'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/04/02-importance-of-hello-importancia-de.html' title='02 THE IMPORTANCE OF A HELLO | A IMPORTÂNCIA DE UM OLÁ'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-8116372850476742890</id><published>2009-04-22T09:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-22T11:04:34.257-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love | amor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fanfiction'/><title type='text'>01 HOW TO LIKE MY BED BETTER | COMO GOSTAR MAIS DA MINHA CAMA</title><content type='html'>For 15 years of his 18-year-old life, he never slept. There was a demon inside him, and the demon was waiting for him to sleep to take control of him. The boy made the mistake to try to sleep once, but he regretted it forever, and he lost the ability to sleep because of that.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Also because of that, he never found great use for his bed, he never understood the amazing fascination the other teens had for it, to the point that sometimes strength exertion was needed to rip that fascination apart in the morning. Was sleeping and dreaming that extraordinary? He had seen many people sleep and dream, his siblings, even some of his victims, and it did not seem exciting at all, and neither did their beds. He knew a bed was comfortable, of course, but there were so many other comfortable objects in the house... And people could sleep in places other than their beds... He couldn't understand.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The demon eventually was taken away from him, replaced by the urgent, instinctive necessity to sleep. The boy used his bed properly for the first time in his life and he fell asleep, dreaming as well. After all, he wanted to know what the excitement was all about...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But when he woke up in the next morning, he felt utterly disappointed. Sleeping had been like eating, like bathing, like making a trip to the bathroom even. It was satisfying, of course, and left him in a better mood, but it wasn't extraordinary.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And the moment he got out from his bed, he felt as good as he did when he was in it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Again, what was the fascination with beds?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;One day, the boy fell in love. He fell in love with another boy, one that also had a demon inside him and had always helped him cope with his, but this boy's demon allowed him to sleep, and this boy loved sleeping and his bed too, like the others.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The first boy was saddened that he could not share the fascination now. It didn't matter much to him when it was just with the other teenagers, but now that the boy he loved loved sleeping and his bed too, he truly wanted to share that with him.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In another day, the first boy communicated this worry to his boyfriend. And his boyfriend, who had always had a knack to solve his problems in a very unortodox way, told him there was a way he could make him love his bed, and not by the unexciting sleeping process. The first boy immediately agreed, the trust they had in each other was limitless and he was rather curious too.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The activity that took place in his bed involved both him and his boyfriend equally, devoid of all their clothing, and it was something the first boy wanted to reprehend his siblings for never mentioning it to him, because his boyfriend had never kissed him that way, held onto him that way, made all his senses alive and screaming that way, and neither had the first boy ever had such desire to drown his boyfriend in endless pleasure like that.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;When the blender of blissful emotions eventually popped open and then subsided, the two boys were connected by a tender embrace, and all that, allied to the beautiful smile shining off his boyfriend's lips, was more than enough to make the first boy cherish his bed forever, as long as the two of them were there.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And, in between sweet caresses, chaste kisses, goofy smiles and under the moonlight's cover, when his boyfriend nested himself against the boy's chest and amidst his arms, seeking warmth and connecting their peaceful heartbeats together, the boy fell asleep with him while beaming, and found out that sleeping was the most fascinating thing too after all, when done in his boyfriend's company.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Maybe his reasons weren't the same as most people's, but they worked for him and he was fine with that...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;|&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Durante 15 anos da sua vida com 18, ele nunca dormira. Havia um demónio dentro dele, e este demónio esperava pelo momento em que ele adormecesse para o controlar completamente. O rapaz cometeu o erro de tentar dormir uma vez, mas arrependeu-se para sempre, e perdeu completamente a capacidade de dormir por causa disso.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Também por causa disso nunca foi capaz de arranjar grande uso para a sua cama, nunca entendeu o extraordinário fascínio que os outros jovens tinham pela sua, ao ponto em que era necessário muitas vezes exercer força para rasgar esse fascínio pela manhã. Era sonhar e dormir assim tão maravilhoso? Ele já tinha visto muita gente a dormir e a sonhar, os seus irmãos, até algumas das suas vítimas, e nunca lhe pareceu excitante de todo, nem as suas camas. Claro que  sabia que a cama era muito confortável, mas o mesmo se passava com tantos objectos da casa... E as pessoas conseguiam dormir noutros lugares senão a cama... Ele não era capaz de entender.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;O demónio foi eventualmente tirado dele, substituído pela necessidade urgente e instintiva de dormir. O rapaz usou a sua cama convenientemente pela primeira vez na sua vida e adormeceu, sonhando também. Afinal, queria saber para quê tanto alarido...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Mas quando acordou na manhã seguintem sentiu-se imensamente desiludido. Dormir tinha sido como comer, como tomar banho, como uma visita à casa-de-banho até. Era satisfatório, claro, e deixara-o com melhor disposição, mas não era nada de mais.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;E após ter saído da cama, sentiu-se tão bem como quando estava dentro dela.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Mais uma vez, qual era a razão para tal fascínio por camas?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Um dia, o rapaz apaixonou-se. Apaixonou-se por outro rapaz, um que também tinha um demónio dentro dele e sempre o ajudara com o seu, mas o demónio deste rapaz sempre o deixou dormir, e este rapaz adorava dormir e a sua cama também, tal como os outros.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;O primeiro rapaz ficou agora triste por não conseguir partilhar do fascínio. Quando era só com os outros jovens, não lhe interessava muito, mas agora que o rapaz que amava adorava dormir e a sua cama também, ele queria mesmo partilhar isso com ele.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Noutro dia, o primeiro rapaz comunicou esta preocupação ao namorado. E o namorado, que sempre tivera um jeito especial para resolver estes problemas de uma forma muito pouco ortodoxa, disse-lhe que havia uma maneira de ele passar a gostar da sua cama, que não era o aborrecido processo de dormir. O primeiro rapaz concordou imediatamente, a confiança que tinham um no outro era ilimitada e ele estava curioso também.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A actividade que teve lugar na sua cama envolveu-o tanto a ele próprio como o seu namorado de forma igual, desprovidos de toda a sua roupa, e foi uma actividade que o fez querer desde logo repreender os irmãos por nunca lha terem mencionado, pois o seu namorado nunca o havia beijado assim, abraçado assim, feito todos os seus sentidos gemer e ganhar vida daquela forma, e nunca tinha o primeiro rapaz tido tão grande desejo de engolir o seu namorado em prazer eterno como então.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Quando a misturadora de emoções agradáveis eventualmente rebentou e parou, os dois rapazes  ligaram-se num ternurento abraço, e tudo isso, aliado ao lindo sorriso que brilhava dos lábios do seu namorado, foi mais que suficiente para fazê-lo adorar a sua cama para sempre, desde que ambos ali estivessem.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;E, por entre gentis carícias, beijos castos, sorrisos tolos e debaixo do manto de luar, quando o seu namorado se aninhou contra o seu peito e no meio dos seus braços, ligando o bater do coração pacífico de ambos, o rapaz adormeceu com ele enquanto sorria, e descobriu que dormir era a coisa mais fascinante também, quando na companhia dele.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Talvez as suas razões não fossem iguais às de toda a gente, mas funcionavam para ele e ele estava perfeitamente bem com isso...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-8116372850476742890?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/8116372850476742890/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/04/01-how-to-like-my-bed-better-como.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/8116372850476742890'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/8116372850476742890'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/04/01-how-to-like-my-bed-better-como.html' title='01 HOW TO LIKE MY BED BETTER | COMO GOSTAR MAIS DA MINHA CAMA'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1147776622235371845.post-1223702916987776258</id><published>2009-04-22T09:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-22T09:49:21.712-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beginning | início'/><title type='text'>REASONS FOR BEING HERE - THE DAILY DRABBLE CHALLENGE | RAZÕES DE AQUI ESTAR - O DESAFIO DO TEXTO DIÁRIO</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Hello there, and welcome!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For the ones who don't know me, it has always been a dream of mine to find my future in writing, and for that I have the ideas, the (growing) capacity and the time but not, unfortunately, the drive to do it most of the times.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I write fanfiction, and not unfortunately I spend too much time on it rather than develop my own characters and complete plotlines.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;To fix that, I created this blog. And the daily drabble challenge.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Everyday, I'll work myself to write something, even if just for practise. The size of the text doesn't matter, the only rule is to put all of me in it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;There will be fanfiction at some points, maybe, but the main purpose is to explore my own ideas, gain rhythm and, of course, write in my native language (it's almost embarrassing, the so little Portuguese I write...).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The themes found here will range broadly, but luckily, at least one of them shall be of interest. :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Feel free to step through the portal and enter my imaginary world, at your own risk of course, but it'll make me happy if you enjoy the ride. Leave a grain of sand with your thoughts whenever you can, when the bag is full, new dream will be born.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;|&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Olá, e sê bem-vindo! (em inglês não se levanta o problema do tratamento por tu, mas como já estás aqui para ler os meus sonhos e pensamentos, acho que já somos íntimos o suficiente para nos tratarmos por tu)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Para aqueles que ainda não me conhecem, tem sido sempre um sonho meu conciliar o meu futuro com a escrita, e para isso tenho as ideias, a (crescente) capacidade e o tempo mas não, infelizmente, a motivação para fazê-lo da maior parte das vezes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Escrevo fanfiction (peço desculpa não traduzir, mas todas as possibilidades soavam-me muito mal), e não infelizmente gasto demasiado tempo nisso em vez de desenvolver as minhas próprias personagens e histórias completas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Para remendar isso, criei este blogue. E o desafio do texto diário.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Todos os dias, vou educar-me para escrever qualquer coisa, nem que seja apenas para praticar. Não importa o tamanho do texto, a única regra é dar o meu melhor.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Talvez haja fanfiction nalguns momentos, mas o principal objectivo é explorar as minhas próprias ideias, ganhar ritmo e, claro, escrever na minha língua materna (é quase vergonhoso o tão pouco Português que escrevo...).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Os assuntos abordados aqui variarão muito, mas com alguma sorte, pelo menos um será de interesse. :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Está à vontade de atravessar o portal e entrar no meu mundo imaginário, por tua prórpia conta, claro, mas fazer-me-á feliz se gostares da viagem. Deixa um grão de areia com os teus pensamentos sempre que puderes, quando o saco estiver cheio, nascerá um novo sonho&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1147776622235371845-1223702916987776258?l=a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/feeds/1223702916987776258/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/04/reasons-for-being-here-daily-drabble.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/1223702916987776258'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1147776622235371845/posts/default/1223702916987776258'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://a-sandmans-portal.blogspot.com/2009/04/reasons-for-being-here-daily-drabble.html' title='REASONS FOR BEING HERE - THE DAILY DRABBLE CHALLENGE | RAZÕES DE AQUI ESTAR - O DESAFIO DO TEXTO DIÁRIO'/><author><name>Vicente</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103156454576154817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fcoLXwyBISs/S1CfonnrnRI/AAAAAAAAAA8/OkzceDHUleo/S220/DSC04660.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
