We'll Always Have Paris

Casablanca (1942)



"Ilsa: But what about us?
Rick: We'll always have Paris. We didn't have, we, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.
Ilsa: When I said I would never leave you.
Rick: And you never will. But I've got a job to do, too. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now... Here's looking at you kid".

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I used to hate Mondays and now, I hate Fridays. Every Friday we "lose" somebody.

I know that we sign a temporary contract every time we meet someone here, over this circumstances. But usually, in the "real" world, contracts may be extended, renewed. Yes, we can also extend our "relationship-contracts", unlikely to happen but we can, and we know that the friendship will continue despite the distance, the time zone, the continent, the difference in our backgrounds and culture. But it's never the same thing.

We already lost Denise "Busgirl", Lukas "Roofer", Mike "Suicide" (Switzerland), George "Prolix" (Czech Republic), Jorge "Senta-na-pua" (Mexico), Karina "Japa Girl" (SP.Brazil), Marcus "Take a Picture" (BH.Brazil), Juliana"Don't-like-you" (SP.Brazil).

Today we're losing Sonja "Reasonable-Green-Eyes-Ice-Queen" (Austria).

Soon we'll lose Juan Carlos "Special" (POA.Brazil), Thiago "Stinky Jokes" (Botucatu.Brazil), Laura "Chatty" (Switzerland), Annie "^^V Anime" (Korea), Gem "The-same-in-Portuguese" (Turkey), Kamuron "Rescueboy" (Turkey), AB "Yo" (Saudi Arabia) and so many others, that I'm not continuing the list 'cause I'll probably leave someone out.

It's the fast-friendship phenomenon. There's no time to know each other a little bit better. We gotta be fast. Open up your heart and jump. Hopefully there will be a safety net to hold you down there. Yeah... We all know that one day we will wake up from this dream and go back to our real lives. But sometimes it's cold outside, your bed is warm and you just don't want to wake up.

Maybe Vinicius was also referring to this when he said:
"Que não seja imortal, posto que é chama, mas que seja infinito enquanto dure."
It shall not be immortal, once it's a flame, but let it be infinite as long as it last.