Nascida e criada em Portugal. Já morei na Polónia, no Brasil, na República Checa e agora é a Suécia que me acolhe.
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Born and raised Portuguese. I have lived in Poland, Brazil, Czech Republic and now I'm in the beautiful Sweden.
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terça-feira, 21 de março de 2017

Six degrees of separation #2

Sometimes I want to believe that we are all related and that within 6 steps we can connect any 2 people in the world. (There's actually a Swedish TV show who plays with this and it works most of the times). 

Today I met a woman who works in a local museum. She is Swedish. We talked for a while and it didn't take too long to find a connection point between the two of us.

I told her I am Portuguese and she replied she has only been to Portugal once, in the 90's. She went with her football team on a training vacation to Algarve. At the time, there were a few Swedish football players in Benfica and it was common for the teams to visit each other. She remembers going there to train and she also remembers when Benfica visited Sweden. She met a few players and even has an autograph of Valdo. In the 90's, I was a huge fan a football and Benfica has always been my team. In the weekends, me and my friend Catarina would sit at home, listen to the matches on the radio and write funny reports about it that we would then compare on the Monday after in school. We were crazy about João Vieira Pinto, mas we were also big fans of Valdo. 

To meet someone so far away that had actually lived something similar to me was quite exciting!
Deep inside we are indeed all connected to each other, whether it is through relationships, events or life experiences.





Às vezes quero acreditar que estamos todos relacionados e que em 6 etapas podemos ligar quaisquer 2 pessoas no mundo. (Há um programa de TV sueco que experimenta isso e que mostra exemplos de como funciona).

Hoje conheci uma mulher que trabalha num museu local. Ela é sueca. Conversamos um bocado e não demorou muito até encontrarmos algo que nos ligasse.

Eu disse-lhe que sou portuguesa e ela respondeu que só foi para Portugal uma vez nos anos 90. Ela foi com sua equipa de futebol para o Algarve a estagiar. Na época havia vários jogadores de futebol suecos no Benfica e era comum as equipas visitarem o país da outra. Ela lembra-se de ir lá treinar, mas também se lembra quando o Benfica visitou a Suécia. Na altura conheceu alguns jogadores e até tem um autógrafo do Valdo. Nos anos 90 eu era um grande fã de futebol e o Benfica sempre foi a minha equipa. Ao fim de semana, eu e minha amiga Catarina sentávamos-nos em casa a ouvir o s relatos no rádio e escrevíamos comentários engraçados num papel que comparávamos na segunda-feira seguinte na escola. Nós éramos loucas pelo João Vieira Pinto, mas também éramos grandes fãs do Valdo.

Conhecer alguém tão distante mas que tinha vivido algo tão semelhante a mim foi muito engraçado!
No fundo, todos estamos conectados uns aos outros, seja através de relacionamentos, acontecimentos ou experiências de vida.

6 comentários:

  1. That is so very true. If people just actually communicate they will find that there's always something that connects, something they have in common. I am always astonished when I talk with someone and discover our alikeness.

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    1. Thanks for your comment! I agree that we can always find similarities and that brings people closer.

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  2. What a coincidence! I've often seen connections in facebook of friends or family that know someone who is friends with someone I know in totally different countries. And I've come across distant relatives because we've commented on having the same surname and found out we descended from the same great-grandfather. The world is a small place!

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    1. Thanks Sami! Facebook does help a lot with these kind of things as well. It's really cool that you can find relatives through your surname. Unfortunately, my surname is too common for that.

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  3. yes, I agree we are all related and connected in some way.

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