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I´m under the weather

Depois de quatro anos, vivendo atrás do meu marido, tendo ele como farol e âncora, eis que a data chegou de eu receber a chave do apartamento em UPpsala. Semana passada, eu decidi fazer um curso intensivo de inglês, com professores americanos. Na verdade, eu nao me sinto segura no idioma, e nao posso e nem devo colocar na minha cabeca que essas dificuldades sao resultado dos problemas de saúde que eu tive em 2007. Nao! Eu nao posso pensar dessa forma, senao a minha vida vai desandar feito pudim. Eu vou estudar com pessoas que sao de países cujo idioma oficial é o inglês. Eu sei que eu terei dificuldades, mas uns dizem que depois de um mês, tudo isso vai passar. Eu preciso acreditar nisso.

Mas, o que eu sei mesmo é que, depois de anos, eu sinto que eu posso voar com as minhas próprias asas e sozinha. Ontem, meu marido sentou no jardim, me olhou firme e disse: “Olha, Grace…tudo isso está acontecendo na nossa vida por que a nossa forma de definir o amor é diferente. Eu me contento em amar apenas, Você e nossos filhos. Mas, você, nao! O seu amor vai além disso. Amar, para você, é amar a HUmanidade, criancas que você nunca viu na vida. Eu sei que, os próximos dois anos serao de desafio para nós dois. Você pode, durante o curso, descobrir que a vida que estamos vivendo nao é o que você quer para a sua vida. E eu vou aceitar a sua decisao assim como eu espero que você aceite se eu descobrir que eu sou feliz sem a sua presenca. Mas, se você quiser saber, eu gostaria mesmo é de, no dia da apresentacao da sua tese, eu está lá, te aplaudindo. E dizer a quem me perguntar se você é minha esposa: Nao…Ela é apenas Grace. Ela, agora, anda com as próprias pernas, pensa com a cabeca dela e voa com suas próprias asas… Isso é amor, Grace!

Eu estou com meu coracao partido, por que eu me acostumei a viver pelos olhos dele. Quando eu falava uma palavra em inglês que eu tinha esquecido, ele repetia: Nao, você nao pode falar dessa forma. Nós vamos repetir cada letra…até você voltar a falar corretamente…Esse tempo gerou em nossas vidas, uma relacao de pai e filha e, sem saber, nós nos perdemos…como marido e mulher. Se vamos refazer todo o caminho, ainda nao sabemos…E nem eu posso prometer nada…por que eu briguei muito por esse curso, desde o dia em que eu desembarquei na Àfrica e vi criancas nuas, descalcas e doentes… E seja o que Deus quiser!!!


Flowers from today. I have taken these photos in the gardens around the Strömsholm Palace, yesterday.

After four years, living in function of my husband and making him my anchor and my lighthouse, tomorrow I will receive the keys of the apartment where I´l live alone in Uppsala. Last week, I decided to do an intensive course in English with American teachers. Actually, I don´t feel secure with the language and I´ve trouble pronouncing words that start with the letters TH and some expressions in English, but I can´t nor I should have in my head that my difficulties are result of the health problems I had in 2007. I don´t!!! I can´t think for that way,otherwise, the life won´t run. I´ll study in Uppsala University with students from countries where they speak English and I know that they speak very very good English. I know that I´ll find difficulties, because the first step is lecture during ten days in Poland, but after one month, everything can be better. I need to believe in myself…

I´ve been feeling sick since last week. I am stressed and nervous, worries and nightmares had attacked me. Perhaps, because I think that , now, I can fly with my wings, without to hear my husband saying me: ” Grace, you can´t do that…Grace, you can´t think like that…” But, yesterday, he sat in the garden and looking at me, he said me: Grace, the changes are happening in our lives just why you don´t love like me. I´m happy if I love ONLY you and our children. But, you don´t, Grace. Love for you is to love the Humanity, those who you´ve never seen ahead of you, poor children. Grace, you love in a way that I am not capable. How can a person survive so many problems, only on behalf of causes she embraces? I´m not like you…I know, Grace, that in the next two years, you willl meet many people and you can discover that the life that we lived during many years isn´t the life that you wished for you and let me know about your decision because I´ll do the same. Grace, I can discover that I´m more happy living alone…But, today, I want to tell you something: my dream is to get up and clap for you when you present your thesis in 2013 and if someone look at me and ask me if you are my wife, I can answer it: Not! She is only Grace. Now, she can walk with her legs and thinks with her head…and flies with her own wings…this is love, Grace!!!”

I can´t promise anything at all because I fought for that course since the day I arrived in Africa and I saw many children running in the field…without clothes, shoes, health. But I’m with a very broken heart , but I got used to live during the last four years through his eyes and it wasn´t happiness. When I spoke a word in English that I had forgotten, he repeated: No, you can not talk that way. We will repeat each letter until you get to memorize and so you can speak properly …That time has generated in our lives, a relationship of father and daughter and, unknowingly, we got lost each other as husband and wife…

Because sometimes, we think that we know many things when, in fact, we don´t know anything at all.

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Autumn Belle - June 5, 2011 - 4:38 pm

“Nobody can go back and start a new begining, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” – Maria Robinson.

Grace, you are a brave lady. I wish you the very best of luck and may you can find happiness again. Do not be afraid of change.

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Luna Miranda - June 5, 2011 - 4:38 pm

what a great, supportive husband you have. i’m wishing you success in your new life at the university. just relax and enjoy. English is not my mother tongue either but i get by.:p
the photos are gorgeous. i hope you’d feel better soon.

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Marcelle - June 5, 2011 - 6:00 pm

Eu estou desejando que tudo se refaca. Vocês precisam desse tempo separados, para que pense na vida dele e vc, na sua. Vocês dois fazem um casal muito consciente, unido. Eu vou está torcendo.
bjs

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Carver - June 5, 2011 - 7:00 pm

Grace I’ll be sending out good thought for you. Take care, Carver

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Laura Hegfield - June 6, 2011 - 12:08 am

Oh Grace sometimes it is the most difficult times apart that ultimately bring us closer together. Breathe in to this moment…and then the one after that. One by one. You can achieve anything with your angel wings, and your husbands love will be the wind that lifts you up.

Blessings to you my friend as you continue your courageous journey!

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Adao Braga - June 6, 2011 - 3:03 am

Linda declaração de amor dele para você. Quem ama, conhece a liberdade do amor, e da pessoa amada. Vai querida. Vai! Go! Run!

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SandyCarlson (USA) - June 6, 2011 - 3:10 am

Best wishes with this course. How you challenge yourself. It’s great to experience your big heart and to see and hear how your husband appreciates that.

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A Lady's Life - June 6, 2011 - 5:09 am

I hope you find each other again.
Everything is possible in life.
The saying goes that if you love someone, let it go.
If it comes back to you, it’s yours.
You just might need to stretch your wings for a while and then miss what you had and come back.
Its nice to be charitable, but you can’t save the world.
So you do what you can, when you can.
Good Luck:)

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Rajesh - June 6, 2011 - 5:13 am

Do not worry. You will be fine.

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Tina - June 6, 2011 - 5:51 am

Oi Grace!

Desejo-lhe boa sorte nesta empreitada. O amor vai há de vencer, but only time will tell. Take good care of yourself.

Congrats on these awesome pics!

beijos,

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Lady Fi - June 6, 2011 - 7:05 am

That is love – this letting go in order to let you find yourself. I’m so glad you have found your wings!

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Maria Laura - June 6, 2011 - 1:42 pm

Ai amiga, me deu um friozinho na barriga. Mas voce tem uma independecia avida dentro de ti. Vai sim. Porque o amor vence sempre. E esse maridão te ama demais.
Se for amor , ele vai estar te apluadindo com certeza
bejão princesa.

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Living So Abundantly - June 6, 2011 - 4:10 pm

That is a beautiful flower cake. Wishing you the best in your journey in life. Jesus will help you every step of the way. Just ask Him.

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