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Writer's pictureMariana Vieira

Am I vanishing?

(...) thinking about it I summon a question I had this week:


Am I vanishing?





I left all my social media, deleted all of them to get away from the networks, but, currently, won't this getaway vanishes me?


Liquid relationships are all we have at the moment, but when we tire... how the distancing of such liquid relationships, which we are all doomed - and which are doomed to the media -, can be done if it is all I have?


Am I vanishin?


For a long time I disagreed with Bauman¹ by thinking that such relationships could be maintained in this physically absent way. I was a social media rat, I knew how the media worked, and I could communicate like a beautiful kitten insisting on eating a sachet.


But now...

this is all I am able to be.


Nobody sees who I am beyond the screen, I became thousands of screens, I am THE screen.


And, when I decide to distance myself from the screens, I actually disappear, as I'm THE screen.


Whose distance is it?


Am I vanishing?




¹ BAUMAN, Z. Liquid love: on the fragility of human bonds. Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar Editor, 2004.

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