segunda-feira, 27 de maio de 2024

 Dear Oprah,

I am so sad that I can't even put it in words.

I neve thought I meant so little to people around me and in fact I mean nothing.

I spent the whole weekend all alone.

If I don't call, nobody calls, if I don't say "Let's have some coffee", nobody thinks of asking me.

It's like I don't exist or I exist only when people need something from me.

Even my so called "best friend". When she's down, when she needs money, or her car breaks on the street or her daughter makes her feel like she is nothing but shit, she's here, at my door.

Now that she's working and her daughter is in a better mood, she goes out with her other friends and not even give me a call.

When am I going to learn, Oprah? When?

All my life I've been the stupid one asking for some love, giving everything I have: my love, my attention, my care, my money, my time.

All my life I've been this person. Stupid!

There's no other word to describe me.

Being good may give us a place in heaven, but here on Earth, it makes us just suffer over and over and over again.

I with I could die.

Why be alive if we mean nothing to anyone?

My kids are living their lives and I am glad they are fine and doing OK.

I don't have anybody near me.

I think about Taylor Swift song "You're on your own kid."

I've been on my own all my life and I am so tired.

sábado, 25 de maio de 2024

 Dear Oprah,

I'd love to know why I mean so little to people that nobody, and I mean NOBODY, calls to know if I am well.

It's like if I desappeared from the Earth people wouldn't even notice.

I mean, my daughter would realize because she calls me from Monday to Friday.

The weekends she is busy with her family and she supposes that if I need her I would call.

My son would take more than a week and just because he would look at the camera in the living room where he sees me come and go.

But my so called friends?

Maybe it would take months for them to notice my absence.

Isn't it funny?

It's always me who calls to know if they are OK, if they need anything.

People are so self centered that they can't see when something is not right with the person right next to them.

My brother? It's been weeks.

But when he isn't doing well he calls me and rents my ears for hours.

For Mother's day my daughter-in-law bought a present and made it delivered here.

Nice, right?

Yeah, the idea was not nice, but it would be much nicer if she had asked me what I wanted/needed, because she sent me pricey soap, body lotion and body splash, and what I really wanted was a bottle (1 liter) of olive oil.

Because olive oil is very expansive here in Brazil right now and she probably spent more in the gift she bought then she would spend if she had bought me the olive oil, and I would be much more happier.

She gave me a gift she would love to receive.

And that's what most people do: they don't care what the other person wants or need. They give what they would like to receive.

Right, the Bible says "Treat other how you would like they treat you" but I do believe it doesn't mean it literally.

Anyway, I feel so lonely and so depressed that I would want to roll into a ball and sleep forever.

Even my dreams are crazy.

Last night I dreamed that I was in a very fancy airport, going somewhere.

It was really fancy and we took the elevator and when down but there there was several WC stalls and in a upper level (like two steps) there was a lounge and it was flooded.

People were literally walking with water on their shins and the strange thing was that the water didn't fall down to the WC stalls.

I decided to use the WC before getting on the plane, but every time I was going to get into a stall someone went before me.

I saw a stall, a big one, on the corner and when I got there there was lots of vegetables on the floor.

Like someone had poured a kitchen trash on the floor.

It was horrible, but I really needed to use the WC and of course, they were not in good shape.

I woke up.

Every night I have crazy dreams.

The other night it was King Charles ice swimming.

I don't know if I am not losing my mind.

Anyway, that's me.

No money, no work, no friends, no love, nothing.

I miss my Vivi.

I love Elena and Gabriel, of course, I love them very much.

But Vivi is my oldest, Vivi makes me laugh and we have that connection.

In fact, to be real, I miss all of them.


quinta-feira, 23 de maio de 2024

 Dear Oprah,

Tá foda!

Eu tento, juro por Deus que eu tento não reclamar, só agradecer, procurar ver o lado bom de tudo, mas tá foda.

As pessoas falam que dinheiro não traz felicidade e realmente ele não traz, ele compra.

Ele compra paz de espírito, ele compra passagem para ver os netos, ele compra comida boa, ele compra presentes para os amigos e filhos dos amigos.

Engraçado que apesar de eu querer bastante ganhar na loteria, eu me conformaria em ter trabalho que me pagasse para poder pagar as coisas que quero e preciso.

É duro a gente chegar aos 66 anos e sentir que não fez muita coisa profissionalmente.

Eu tenho vontade de me encolher em posição fetal e esperar a morte, mas a gente não sabe quando ela vai chegar.

Graças ao bom Deus minha filha está melhor, está trabalhando, está carinhosa, está sendo ela novamente.

Meu genro continua desempregado. Pra ser bem sincera, não sei com que determinação ele está procurando outro emprego.

Pra ele enquanto recebe salário desemprego, está tudo bem.

Ele se mexe quando a água bate na bunda.

Não é má pessoa, na verdade ele é ótima pessoa, só é acomodado.

Estou magoada com meu filho, ele vive na bolha dele e eu sou só um acessório.

Mas nem isso me deixa tão chateada quanto falta de trabalho.

Queria ter uma oração que me acalmasse.

Queria um abraço.

A Rose é aquela pessoa que se eu não procuro, ela não me procura.

A Tereza está enfiada nos problemas dela e não percebe, ou não quer perceber, que eu estou precisando de carinho e atenção.

As outras? Elas não tiram enxergam um palmo adiante do nariz.

Vivemos num mundo egoísta.

Oprah, eu só preciso de trabalho.

Quando eu tenho trabalho aos montes minhas cabeça não me inferniza.

Gostaria tanto que você pudesse me ajudar.

Na verdade, gostaria tanto que alguém pudesse me ajudar.