This is a quick online follow-up to a conversation I had last night about the portuguese language. Me and some friends were discussing how dull it can sound. In fact, we agreed that it sounds a lot duller and sadder than a lot of other languages, even latin ones. It can be beautiful, really poetic and emotive, and powerful in literature, but on our day to day “happy” conversations, it always comes up as a bit rough and cold.

Whether you like it or not, even the smallest things end up influencing people throughout their lives, and the culture of a country is unified by a lot of small things, being unique because of that. I couldn’t help but wonder that if we could grow into something completely different by exposing ourselves to more positive influences then shouldn’t we try? It strengthened my wish to go study abroad. Portugal can be so depressing and I think it shows in the general attitude of the population. And besides, if you never try, you’ll never know, right?

Edit: I realized just now I really did digress a lot(!), but I think it’s interesting food for thought.