Landing
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Landing in Barcelona was a quite strange intensive journey from the beginning of everything, with huge different time zones and a constant heavy schedule, with events to organize and a new job from the moment I arrived, adaptation hasn't been easy. With this immersion in a different world and chapter of my life, my mind acts quite rationally, sometimes forgetting to look at the beautifulness or even the behavioral curious nuances of people who integrate the city into their daily lives, like a move to survive.
With the start of my master's, my critical sense of observation arrived fast, with punctual questions of the uncertainty that I could find through my journey, considering risks and important decisions that have been taken to arrive here. With tons of introductions, the initiation to integrate me into the academic mesh has been cool and relaxed, as a curious management through bits of myself by each moment I projected my own perception of what am I.
Step by step my vision is getting more colors reviving certain sensations through new friends, new mentors, and a free space that lets me be myself, without any limitations or mental impossibilities through my aims. With new rituals, the chaotic reality in my mind from the moment I arrived has been polished by rational choices that would keep my brain briefing to regroup the iris which integrates my conception of what I'm now for today and hereafter.
After two weeks, I've been asking myself about these collective expectations of experiences in different places, what would be this new space through my eyes? How much of the expectations from my past are interfering with my emotional sense and response? Since expectations are visions blinding us to integrating the present, I ask if there will be a moment when they'll settle down from our human social evolution. And if we are fixed to the present, we will ever dream of the future?
Moments to dream and moments to act.
Carlos Silveira, 12th of October, 2024
