This is a a blog about life.
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans
- John Lennon, Beautiful boy
2014 is the 21st year that i get to live. Taking into account that i did not start realising what life really meant up until i was what? - about 1-2 years old? - let’s say that this is the 20-ish year that i get to chose - in different ways and measures - how i live.
You’d say that in 20 years i would have already got the hang of living. You couldn’t be more wrong (less right, if it makes you feel less self-conscious).
And although i think that i have nothing to give to the world with this blog, and i suspect that these words will be in vain and will be of no help for anyone, i am writing all my thoughts here in the hope that they will, at least, make someone smile or think or whatever.
(Also, since i enrolled into uni i have been neglecting my english in its most beautiful artistic forms… science writing leaves no place for beautiful metaphors and very long, smart-sounding words…unless you count organic compounds as “beautifully named”. You shouldn’t.)
I am starting with some introductions that i think are in order.
I am a almost-graduated-from-university cell and molecular biologist. It sounds fancy and makes me look very smart. It is. I mean, it is fancy.
English is, by no means, my mother tong. In fact, i have two mother tongues, portuguese and spanish. The fact that my roots are, at the very least, tangled, is essential for understanding my personality, which i truly hope that you’ll come to enjoy and care for.
I have very strong opinions and positions on certain unconventional topics, which are in many cases, absolutely useless to everyone. And i speak them loud (or type then, in this case), most of the time for my not-so-much-well-being. First strong opinion you’re going to learn about? I hate capitalising the word “I”. Unless it is in the beginning of a sentence. What little obnoxious fu**ers with egocentric problems decided that you, and them and we, was going to be written in normal sized letters, yet i was going to be written I?!
(Second strong opinion? Bad words. I have never understood what makes a word a “bad word”. But i’ll leave that to a post in the future. I apologise for my family-unfriendly way of speaking. I am a very polite portuguese speaker, a not so polite spanish one, and i am afraid that i have come to be a unpolite english speaker…
I have been around the internet since i can remember, watch youtube more than i watch TV, follow youtubers since the age of 13 and have read what i can only characterise as a million and a half blogs. Blogs usually come in the way of “thematic blogs”. A makeup blog, a politics one, never to be combined. It is the successful way of running a blog, i guess. You appeal to a single audience who is never going to un-follow you because it is going to enjoy every single post that you post.
But that’s not the person i am. We are all the combination of a million different pieces and aspects that are compulsory to the understanding of whom we are. And that’s what this blog will (hopefully) be. A million and something posts that make me the person i am.
See you soon!
A*
