Someone new...

An average human being changes all of the skin in his body in aproximately 90 days. Time passes and you actually change. You feel, act and look different because you really are. I´ve been away for that long, thus, became someone new too. Left my brazilian summer skin behind and aquired a new israeli winter one, influenced by the sand at the beaches in Tel Aviv and the snow at the Golan Heights, from the touch of new people to the absence of the ones that just weren´t there...

But this new skin is also to be shed, giving space to a new person, already mixed between what was and what will be, since we're always in motion...

What's left for real are the scars life leaves in us. And now I stop talking about skin as a metaphor, but about the invisible scars we carry with us and make us stronger and more fragile. It stays there like a private personal tattoo just for ourselves - most of the time not even the ones who inflicted them on us will notice.

But this is what comprises the essence of "I". You are. I am - always! And the skin may change, be sure it will! But we keep our DNA and we make it new time and time again. so next time we meet, ask me if I'm someone new. Ask me if I feel any different. It´s as outsider as it gets, as internal processes go, to change the skin you live in. ´Cause sometimes it sure feels like it´s not gonna hold me inside...