Story | Time passed and I graduated in solitude
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| Time passed and I graduated in solitude | O tempo passou e me formei em solidão |
| Credits: José Antônio Oliveira de Resende Professor of Portuguese Language Teaching Practice, Department of Letters, Arts and Culture, Federal University of São João del-Rei. | Créditos: José Antônio Oliveira de Resende Professor de Prática de Ensino de Língua Portuguesa, do Departamento de Letras, Artes e Cultura, da Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei. |
| I'm from the time when people still visited each other. | Sou do tempo em que ainda se faziam visitas. |
| I remember my mother telling us to take a good shower, because the whole family would visit someone they knew. | Lembro-me de minha mãe mandando a gente caprichar no banho, porque a família toda iria visitar algum conhecido. |
| We all went together, big family, everybody on foot. | Íamos todos juntos, família grande, todo mundo a pé. |
| Usually at night. | Geralmente, à noite. |
| Nobody was warned of anything, the custom was to arrive without notice. | Ninguém avisava nada, o costume era chegar de paraquedas mesmo. |
| And the owners of the house were happy to receive the visit. | E os donos da casa recebiam alegres a visita. |
| Gradually, the residents introduced themselves, one by one. | Aos poucos, os moradores iam se apresentando, um por um. |
| "Look at the godmother here, boy! Say hello to the godmother." | "Olha o compadre aqui, garoto! Cumprimenta a comadre". |
| And the boy shook my father's hand, my mother's hand, my hand and my brothers' hand. | E o garoto apertava a mão do meu pai, da minha mãe, a minha mão e a mão dos meus irmãos. |
| Then another boy arrived. | Aí chegava outro menino. |
| All diplomacy was repeated. | Repetia-se toda a diplomacia. |
| "But let's sit down, guys. What a pleasant surprise!" | "Mas vamos nos assentar, gente. Que surpresa agradável!" |
| The conversation ran wild in the room. | A conversa rolava solta na sala. |
| My father talking to the godfather and my mother talking to the godmother. | Meu pai conversando com o compadre e minha mãe de papo com a comadre. |
| My brothers and I would all sit on the same sofa, looking at each other and looking at the house of that godfather. | Eu e meus irmãos ficávamos assentados todos num mesmo sofá, entreolhando-nos e olhando a casa do tal compadre. |
| Portraits on the wall, two images of saints on a corner, flowers on the coffee table… a simple and welcoming house. | Retratos na parede, duas imagens de santos numa cantoneira, flores na mesinha de centro … casa singela e acolhedora. |
| Ours was like that too. | A nossa também era assim. |
| So were the visits, simple and welcoming. | Também eram assim as visitas, singelas e acolhedoras. |
| So welcoming that it was also customary to serve a good coffee to visitors. | Tão acolhedoras que era também costume servir um bom café aos visitantes. |
| Like a benevolent angel, someone would appear from the kitchen - usually one of the daughters - and say: "Guys, come inside, the coffee is on the table." | Como um anjo benfazejo, surgia alguém lá da cozinha - geralmente uma das filhas - e dizia: "Gente, vem aqui pra dentro que o café está na mesa. |
| It was a gastronomic metonymy. | Tratava-se de uma metonímia gastronômica. |
| Coffee was just one part: bread, cake, bread, fresh cheese, butter, cookies, milk… all on the table. | O café era apenas uma parte: pães, bolo, broas, queijo fresco, manteiga, biscoitos, leite … tudo sobre a mesa. |
| We all got together and jokes popped up. | Juntava todo mundo e as piadas pipocavam. |
| Laughter too. | As gargalhadas também. |
| Why television? Why go on the street? Why on earth? | Pra que televisão? Pra que rua? Pra que droga? |
| Life was there, in the laughter, in the coffee, in the conversation, in the hug, in the hope… it was life splashing eternity in the moments that eventually end…. | A vida estava ali, no riso, no café, na conversa, no abraço, na esperança … era a vida respingando eternidade nos momentos que acabam …. |
| It was life overflowing simplicity, joy and friendship… | Era a vida transbordando simplicidade, alegria e amizade … |
| When we went out, the owners of the house stayed at the door until we turned the corner. | Quando saíamos, os donos da casa ficavam à porta até que virássemos a esquina. |
| We were still waving. | Ainda nos acenávamos. |
| And we would return home, often a long walk, without a car, but with our hearts warmed by tenderness and welcome. | E voltávamos para casa, caminhada muitas vezes longa, sem carro, mas com o coração aquecido pela ternura e pela acolhida. |
| It was like that at home too. | Era assim também lá em casa. |
| We received visitors with a happy heart… The same joy was repeated. | Recebíamos as visitas com o coração em festa … a mesma alegria se repetia. |
| When they left, we also stayed, the whole family, at the door. | Quando iam embora, também ficávamos, a família toda, à porta. |
| We looked, we looked… until they disappeared in the horizon of the night. | Olhávamos, olhávamos … até que sumissem no horizonte da noite. |
| Time passed and I graduated in solitude. | O tempo passou e me formei em solidão. |
| I had good teachers: television, video, DVD, internet, e-mail, Whatsapp… each one on his own and nobody on anyone else's. | Tive bons professores: televisão, vídeo, DVD, internet, e-mail, Whatsapp … cada um na sua e ninguém na de ninguém. |
| We no longer receive visitors. | Não se recebe mais visitantes. |
| Now we arrange meetings with friends outside the house: "Let's make an appointment!… " | Agora a gente combina encontros com os amigos fora de casa: "Vamos marcar uma saída! …" |
| No one wants to come in anymore. | Ninguém mais quer entrar. |
| Thus, the houses were gradually transformed into tombs without epitaphs, which hide anonymous dead and buried possibilities. | Assim, as casas vão se transformando em túmulos sem epitáfios, que escondem mortos anônimos e possibilidades enterradas. |
| Urban cemetery, where zombies and ghosts roam more frightened than terrifying. | Cemitério urbano, onde perambulam zumbis e fantasmas mais assustados que assustadores. |
| Locked houses … | Casas trancadas … |
| Why open? | Pra que abrir? |
| The thief can enter and steal the memory of coffee, bread, cake, bread, fresh cheese, butter, milk cookies… | O ladrão pode entrar e roubar a lembrança do café, dos pães, do bolo, das broas, do queijo fresco, da manteiga, dos biscoitos do leite … |
| How I miss the godfather and the godmother! | Que saudade do compadre e da comadre! |
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