Circo Vicioso

Pronto, mais um que se passou (para o outro lado?). Um dia ainda hei-de tutear-te, Paolo!

By João Lopes Marques ( Eesti keel ) I not only acknowledge but I also respect that a huge percentage of the human population wants to be famous. Dreams of glory are normal: fame is money, power, vanity, recognition. To some extent life can become easier, though one has to be prepared for losing his beloved privacy. Another minus is that the famous person tends to behave in order to fulfill social expectations on him. (Amy Winehouse or Britney Spears are just two recent cases; others, many others, ended up in suicide.) Why this subject? Because I have just landed in Ülemiste after one week Madrid. My business is nowadays more and more centered in the Spanish capital and I have to go there often. And this is why something is haunting me: in Madrid almost everybody looks at me in the street. Disturbing, since I was never famous in my life, let alone in Spain. Last month I asked my friend Filipe to pay more attention while by me. Puzzled, he confirmed my strange impression: "You are...