MY REFLECTIONS AND ARTICLES IN ENGLISH
THE WORD THAT ARRIVES LATE
Who, inside you, decided that in that instant speaking was dangerous? Marcello de Souza The door has already closed. The call dropped, the meeting ended with that “okay, so we’re aligned” that nobody actually aligned on, and…
OVERQUALIFIED FOR WHOM, EXACTLY?
Have you ever been turned down with a compliment? “You’re too good for me.” Anyone who has heard that line at the end of a relationship knows it isn’t praise. It’s a door being closed gently, so…
WHO’S LAUGHING WHEN YOU CAN’T STOP LAUGHING?
You’ve laughed in the wrong place. Don’t bother denying it. A funeral, a board meeting, the line at the registry office, the exact moment someone stumbles over a solemn word. Something rises in your chest, you press…
WHAT IF YOUR EXPERIENCE IS EXACTLY WHAT’S HOLDING BACK YOUR TRANSITION?
Do you know what your home smells like? You don’t. Nobody does. Anyone who walks in notices it at once: the fabric softener, the reheated coffee, the wood of the wardrobe, the dog, that blend that belongs…
THE FIGHT YOU WON ALONE BEFORE SAYING GOOD MORNING
What we rehearse in silence decides the difficult conversation — in a marriage, in the director’s office and in Monday’s meeting You’ve already won this argument. You won it last night, somewhere around one in the morning,…
THE FACE YOU GAVE TO SOMEONE ELSE’S VOICE
At 11:47 on a Wednesday night, my phone buzzed on the table. It was Gláucia. “Call me when you can? It’s nothing serious.” You already know something about her. You don’t know her age, her city, the…
WHAT HAPPENS TO WHAT NEVER ENDS?
On the value of finitude in an age that abolished endings You picked up your phone to check the time. Forty minutes later you’re still there, thumb pushing the screen upward like someone rowing across a lake…
THE NIGHT I STOPPED THINKING AND DISCOVERED I HAD NEVER BEEN THINKING AT ALL
One day, a client walked into our session and, before she had even settled into her chair, told me that the previous Tuesday, at almost eleven at night, she had switched off the engine in her building’s…
HOW MUCH DO YOU STILL THINK YOU OWE FOR THE POSITION YOU HOLD?
Do you remember the day you got promoted? Not the celebration, if there was one. The exact second. The message lighting up your phone, the director reaching across the table in that glass-walled room, the “you’ve earned…
WHERE DO THE HOURS NOBODY LIVED GO?
Quick, don’t think too hard: what did you do on the Tuesday three weeks ago? No peeking at your calendar. Almost nothing comes back. A blur. One meeting bleeding into another, a lunch swallowed in front of…
