13 noviembre 2012

How do we fall in love?


"You don't fall in love like you fall in a hole. You fall like falling through space. It’s like you jump off your own private planet to visit someone else’s planet. And when you get there it all looks different: the flowers, the animals, the colours people wear. It is a big surprise falling in love because you thought you had everything just right on your own planet, and that was true, in a way, but then somebody signalled to you across space and the only way you could visit was to take a giant jump. Away you go, falling into someone else’s orbit and after a while you might decide to pull your two planets together and call it home. And you can bring your dog. Or your cat. Your goldfish, hamster, collection of stones, all your odd socks. (The ones you lost, including the holes, are on the new planet you found.)

And you can bring your friends to visit. And read your favourite stories to each other. And the falling was really the big jump that you had to make to be with someone you don’t want to be without. That’s it.

PS You have to be brave."


Jeanette Winterson

3 comentarios:

Glo dijo...

Cuando leo algo en inglés, suele sorprenderme un no sé qué de andarse por las ramas, un presentar los asuntos sin abordarlos, sin ahondar en ellos. No es falta de sinceridad, sino, quizá, falta de compromiso, y, la verdad, raramente me satisface.

chris dijo...

Hay fragmentos de esta mujer que me entusiasman...frases sueltas. Para mí escribe de un modo muy visual...la leo y veo facilmente las imágenes de sus sensaciones en mi mente. Ahora, me han venido las imágenes de dos planetas al estilo del que aparece en el Principito.

Cómo me gustaría encontrar un planeta así, donde llevar de paseo a Zoe y Lúa y dejar mis calcetines agujereados...

Gracias por compartir este fragmento, que me ha ayudado a refrescar mi inglés y me ha dejado con una sonrisa.

Un abrazo enorme, Arpo.

Lenteja dijo...

;)
Besos.Lenteja