Eu não conheço Mandy Brown nem Nevan Scott, mas achei linda a observação de Brown para a natureza da relação que tinha com Scott, que faleceu recentemente. Em seu in memoriam, ela fez essa linda observação sobre o mundano:
It sounds incredibly mundane to talk about it now, a friendship measured in video calls and commit messages, but then the word mundane comes from the Latin mundi, or world. To be mundane is to belong to the world, to be in the world, of it and within it. Not outside of it—not lost, the way so much technology tries to make us lose ourselves—but in the world as only the truly living can be. As we can only be with each other.
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Near the end of The Blue Place, as Julia is dying, she tells Aud to “stay in the world.” Aud promises to do so, but the truth is she does not know how. It is so very hard to stay in the world, to hold on to the mundane and ordinary, those fragile human connections, amidst all the forces arrayed against us. I think it is only in the effort to learn that we come close to that knowledge; and perhaps only in the effort to teach that the learning really takes hold.
Estar presente, se sentir parte do mundo, é algo que eu consigo fazer cada vez mais raramente, mas sempre que eu consigo eu sinto ser um ato quase revolucionário de persistir. Que as lembranças dessa amizade sejam uma benção.
