On the lifeboat

“The matter is difficult to put into words. For fear, real fear, such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it. So you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.”

Yann Martel, Life of Pi

Já há muito que não ficava tão imersa num livro. Quando li esta citação, entendi porquê. Religião à parte, revejo-me imenso na "fome de viver" de Pi. Na crença (talvez estúpida) que somos a excepção à regra e que podemos tornar a pior situação em algo de valor. Que às vezes precisamos de dominar os nossos demónios e não matá-los, porque são eles que nos motivam a continuar. 

Estou de momento no meu bote de sobrevivência, com o tigre domado, à espera que apareça o navio. 

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