a maior perversidade de lavar roupa é a ausência absoluta de fim... você não termina de lavar roupa, você apenas alcança pequenos intervalos entre uma leva e outra, até a morte
NENHUMA das pessoas mais engraçadas que eu conheci na minha vida acorda as 5 da manhã pra correr 21km na rua isso nao pode ser uma simples coincidência
I needed to move a sofa.
I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?"
I did not know anybody with a truck.
He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name.
"You gotta know somebody with a truck."
I asked how one acquires such a person.
He said, "You just do."
This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having.
He said, "Ask Kevin."
I do not know a Kevin. He said Kevin like I should. He said it the way you say a shared uncle.
I met Kevin four days later. Kevin owns a truck. Kevin does not own a truck for himself. Nobody owns a truck for themselves. Kevin owns a truck for a fifteen mile radius.
Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS TAKEN A VOW. HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT. HE SIMPLY PURCHASED A BED AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES.
Kevin arrived on Saturday. He brought the truck. He also brought a second man.
I had not asked for a second man.
The second man's name is Tony. Tony came because Kevin came. Tony did not know me. Tony did not ask what we were moving. Tony brought gloves.
They moved the sofa in eleven minutes.
I offered them money. Both of them laughed at the same time, which felt rehearsed and was not.
I asked what I owed them.
Kevin said, "Buy the pizza."
That is the price. That is the entire economy. The truck costs one pizza and the pizza is not negotiable and the pizza is also not expensive and everyone knows what size.
Inside I said: THE FEE IS FIXED ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION AND WAS SET BY NO ONE.
We ate on the floor because the sofa was against the wall and none of us wanted to be the first to sit on it.
Tony told me his daughter plays soccer. I asked if she is good. He said, "She's aggressive."
I still think about that.
Three weeks later, Kevin texted me.
"You free Sunday? Helping Tony move a fridge."
He did not ask if I wanted to. He informed me of a fridge.
Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. I DID NOT ENLIST. THE PAPERS WERE FILED ON MY BEHALF.
I went. I moved the fridge. I have no truck. I contributed only arms.
Afterward, a man I had never met asked me if I knew anybody with a truck.
I said, "Yeah, I got a guy."
I have a guy.
I am somebody's guy now, too. Tony has told two people about me.
He describes me as "the guy who's strong for his size."
I have never been prouder of a sentence in my life.
Tio Iroh é um dos maiores personagens já escritos. Seu arco de transformação é, para mim, simplesmente perfeito.
Ele surge como um general temido da Nação do Fogo: orgulhoso, impiedoso e convencido de que a força era o caminho para moldar o mundo. Foi ele quem cercou a imensa capital do Reino da Terra, disposto a conquistá-la. Mas a guerra lhe cobrou o preço mais alto: a morte de seu filho.
É nesse momento que nasce outro Iroh. A dor rompe a armadura do conquistador e dá início a uma profunda jornada espiritual. Aos poucos, ele compreende que não existe honra na dominação e que a única forma de expiar seus crimes é dedicar o restante da vida à busca do equilíbrio e da paz.
Por isso, o desfecho de sua história é tão poderoso. O homem que um dia cercou Ba Sing Se para submetê-la é o mesmo que, anos depois, retorna para libertá-la. Um dos maiores arcos de redenção já escritos.
É de arrepiar.