How long must we sing this song?

[lu]

After the second foreigner came o to me to ask me about the situation in São Paulo, I felt obliged to make small, but very informative, post.

So far, 152 people were killed; there were 293 atacks (82 buses, 56 cops, 17 banks and others) and 124 people were arrested. That's more dead people in a week than in Bagda, where there is still actual "war".

The good news is that, yesterday night, there were no attacks whatsoever in the city, and we're all hoping that they'll be over soon.

I wish all the best to the people in São Paulo, especially my father, my stepmother and my siblings. I don't know what I'd possibly do if I ever lost one of them.

I don't think this kind of situation will happen in Rio, where I live nowadays, but, with Rio, you never know. One day you don't have anything to worry about (relatively speaking, of course), on the other you look around and realize the whole commerce is shut due to the Big Boys that control the drugs traffic, and, therefore, control the city.

"And it's true we are immune when fact is fiction and TV reality." - Sunday Bloody Sunday, by U2.

Call me a coward, but all of this just makes me wish even more to one day get out of here and go live my life somewhere else.

Comments

[frinitrix.livejournal.com]

I don't think you're a coward. I think you want what it's best for you and that is more than ok. I just think that, wherever we go, we will always be Brazilians, thank God, and that is something to be proud of for a lot of reasons. Maybe I'll go away some day too, but before that happens, I really feel like fighting for what's right, even if in just small gestures :)

[discreetly.livejournal.com]

Fortunatelly the chaos are ending...

But... There isn't any army here Lu... The governor refused all the army support, to doesn't make the situation appears worst than really was(sic)...

But now everything are ok, and we are walking through the city like nothing happened... :P

And it's strange to ready about Rio in English... I don't know why, but it's really not commom xD

And live abroad isn't a cowardky thing, you just go when you have better opportunities and things like that. And we can always come back and go to another places :)


I miss you a lot, little Lu!
Kisses =**********

[fly-meaway.livejournal.com]

Wow. Those numbers seriously just amaze me. It's insane and I can't even begin to imagine how scared people in Sao Paulo must have felt. I'm glad to hear that the situation is getting better, but I thought I heard on the news that the city didn't want help from the government, like an army or something? I don't know if that changed?

And ohhh you're most definetly not a coward. If something awful were to happen in my country, I might feel like that too. I probably would too, but I do love my province a whole lot, so I don't know how I could leave, but wanting to leave is most definetly not cowardly at all *hugs*

[dabih.livejournal.com]

Call me a coward, but all of this just makes me wish even more to one day get out of here and go live my life somewhere else.

My words, exactly. All my life I heard that I´m not a patriot for want to live elsewhere and I really don´t care about it. I love my country and my city, but I want what´s best for me.

[darkwater]

What happened? *feels out of the loop*

You're not a coward. The only reason you would go away from Brazil would be because you loved the place so much - like England.

[worstangel.livejournal.com]

How sick is this? Lots of love to you, my Lu, and many hopes that your family in SP pulls through this situation safely.

You should come to Ohio. Nothing ever happens here.