Some reflective writing accompanied by my art and photography.

Hello friends, today I bring you a little fusion of my photographs in the technique Flat Lay, my art and my writings.

Long ago I was in total ignorance about some people's behavior, I came to think that they were doing everything right and that the rest "as they said" was wrong.

But I began to have problems with many people even with my conscience, because I was seeing how deviant it was all, I felt complicit in something just to keep silences, silences that stabbed my soul.

Every day that passed I witnessed the bad actions of those people, a driving and an overbearing behavior that gave a lot to think about. I tried not to judge them any more and just dedicated myself to clearing my name and above all my conscience. The best way I found was to walk away in silence.

My silences helped me to recover, because I had sunk into my own negative thoughts and the toxic influence I was under, I was pointed out, you could say I was stoned, and after I was made to see that I was a monster just for being silent or accomplice, for letting myself be carried away by toxic attitudes, I realized that I deserved those points. But not the lies and blasphemies against me.

I'm a very religious person and I respect other people's way of thinking or religion, that's why I knew that all those things I witnessed were wrong and that sooner or later my own demons would finish me off. So I spent many weeks in prayer and reflection.

I also had the certainty that by being positive everything would work out well, and it was like that once I was knocked down I found not only peace within myself, but I saw people who even though they pointed at me once, trusted me and always expected the best from me.

I tried first to find my essence, to find myself, to regain the faith in myself and the confidence in me that I had lost up to that point. My self-esteem was spread out on the floor like a glass of water with ice, every time the ice melted it caused pain in my soul and diminished my spirit.

I embraced my true self, that humble person who I am, that person who always sees with the heart, that person who is happy with little things and who despite being very sad inside, is always willing to give a lot of love.

Everything good or bad that you do in this life will come back to you in triplicate, if you do good, you will receive good, if you do bad you will not want to know how it will be.

As long as you do good, you can count on me, even if you get lost for a while, I trust that you will find your way again. You can always count on me and you will know because whenever you call me I will respond and somehow I will be close to you, looking for you, but if I do not look for you is because I went away and I no longer have confidence in your own demons that you can not overcome.

I'm not a lifelong angry person, but I'm the kind of person who walks away and doesn't come back when you've hurt them too much.

Because I'm like a sponge and I tend to absorb everything that happens.

If there's one thing I've learned from everything, it's to value myself and not allow myself to be used, to be hurt, and to ignore those who might make fun of me.

I try to do good and to give my best, to leave in better condition the things that I found along the way, not to do what I don't like to be done and not to take advantage of a weakness of another person and above all, not to wear myself out trying to get anyone to have a wrong opinion of me, to make them understand that they are or were wrong, that I only leave to my great friend... time.

My mother used to say these words, which sometimes sounded as if they had been said by Tarzan. She was a country person who, in her country, Portugal, in times of war, did not have the opportunity for higher studies, but she earned a great title of sage in life, whose words and advice always come to my memories and I embrace them with love; she said: