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Uma forma desromantizada de se encontrar

May 20th, 2019 - Belém, Brazil

In Brazil,interactions seem to escape any romantic logic.

What standsout is the freedom to feel attraction, to live it, to express it.

You meet someone, share something, flirt openly, through dance, throughlaughter, through bodies, and the next day you can see each other again as ifnothing had happened.

Desire circulates, then softens, then sometimes returns. It is not a secret,not a taboo, not a promise.

It lives in the present moment. It is complete without a future.

It simply is.

It is arelational culture where things can exist fully, intensely, then disappear,then return, then transform again.

To have felt attracted, to have shared a tangible intensity, and then return to a perfectly neutral interaction does not create frustration or ambiguity.

No discomfort. No emotional debt.

Each exchange resets naturally, without being a problem—almost as if theconnection knows how to recalibrate itself.

Relationsunfold within impermanence, spontaneity, and the natural movement of attractionor repulsion.

There is no script, no projection, no idealization, no obligation to turnanything into a “story.”

They are not frozen by romantic expectations from another era.

They are not romanticized.

Europeanromanticism, still influenced by 19th-century thinkers, rests on the belief insoulmates, the quest for exceptional and transcendent love, the idea that everyencounter must “mean” something, and the glorification of destiny in love.

It values the dramatization of emotion, the link between suffering and depth,and love as a noble and moral form of personal salvation.

Theseimaginaries create projections, narratives, imaginary futures, while the Brazilian imaginary perceives above all a situational energy, asimple sharing of presence.

In Brazil,you share a simple moment, an authentic connection, without weighing it downwith a story it doesn’t have.

The culture prioritizes joy and well-being in whatever form they appear—overstability, labels, or social status.

You can live relationships without naming them, without freezing them intodefinitions, without limiting them through narrative.

You share a moment, not a future.

Here,attraction does not need to become a path.

It is a state, a sensation, an energy that moves between two people at a givenmoment.

Then it softens, quiets down, settles for a time, or for good.

Adèle Guérin
Cultural researcher, engineer, author
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