The unidentifiable beauty of being app-less.
So are they coming over for tea or not? In the moment of realizing that an appointment with friends seems to be forgotten, the aggravation of being uninformed lasts for a few minutes. After that, other, more worrying, thoughts nestle into your brain. Maybe a flat tire or, even worse, an accident. Maybe they won’t come because of a not cleared-up misunderstanding or a secret open nerve that needs some healing attention. Although you realize that personal circumstances have forced a kind of survival instinct upon you, it doesn’t mean you should have to be concerned about an ever so spontaneous friendship, but yet you feel all those insecure thoughts creep in your head after the first few minutes of being disappointed. The tiny world you’re living in is big. Tiny in the sense of friendships and relationships with equally minded companions in the struggle that entail these economic dark days, big as in the distance you need to travel on the vibrating Portuguese roads that are meandering th...