JOHN MATVICHUC (Ivan Matvichuc) – professor with full housing for teaching performing arts (higher education) – art-educator volunteer connected to PROLER-BS of UNISANTA Saints. The institution's volunteer Braille teacher of Santos (theatre with visually impaired). Actor, playwright, novelist and screenwriter. Participated in various literary anthologies in Brazil and in Portugal. Awarded in 2007 as best actor in the Baixada Santista with short FRAGMENTS in the SHORT SANTOS.

"LOST IN TRANSLATION"

(short story)-John Matvichuc

The longer we live, the more aware how fleeting is our existence, always surrounded by fatalities, which seem to miss us, but they end up taking precious lives around us. The friends are leaving us and we get increasingly lonely and missing them. To what extent we will be immune, how far will the path of our lives? Are questions that hardly will find answers, because life is a great unknown, a Greek Sphinx, even Oedipus could decipher.

The Greek mythological figures lead us to reflect that the much-vaunted fatality, which according to them, is inserted in the book of fate has its pre-determined course and that nothing can change its course: – it is written, there is no way, the tragedy is therefore an inevitable event and anything we can do to prevent it from happening. Will be? The Greeks would not be being too radical in its premonitions. Anyway, we prefer to stay with what has been established in our Christian beliefs, where the fates of people is driven by God and only he knows the exact moment of our birth and the last moment, in that we take our last breath. If there is a change of these rules, the man responsible for their actions, as in the case of him rushing his death through suicide. The God does not fit any blame for this crazy Act, because it granted the man free will to lead your life. Let us never forget that Jesus died to save us and redeem us from all our sins and if we have a destiny that belongs to God and is one to entrust the fate of our souls.

These thoughts tumultuavam the mind of young Johnny, a restless teenager, it was hours and hours blathering in your insomnia, as would be the exact moment of his death, when he would have to leave in his last journey, to go after death and felt a tremor cold at the thought that one day would disappear from the face of the Earth. It made him uncomfortable to the point of seeking parents and grandparents so that they elucidassem their existential doubts and everybody laughed saying they were childish fantasies and I shouldn't be thinking about these nonsense, everyone except one person, your old grandmother Maria, a Polish very haughty and proud of their origins, always listening in silence what her grandson was saying and was always looking for advise it comes with a lot of affection.

Maria married very young with a gallant officer and captain of the Imperial Russian Navy, Eugene Savelieff. The couple was a friend of Emperor Nicholas Romanoff, attended the Court and by a fatality of fate (Russian revolution of 1917), have had to abandon everything and fled with one of the ships of the fleet, defecting with more than 300 seamen. The ship was abandoned in the port of Liverpool and his crew and family lived in hiding. In the early 20 came to Brazil, looking for a better fate for their lives, especially for little Alexander, only son of the couple.

What approached Johnny of his old grandmother Maria was the fact she was a fortune teller, who liked to take the card and seemed to tell the future of the people. The young man felt a great admiration by the powers of the old lady. He believed, she could guess its future, could predict what your life would be like, to predict the exact moment of his death and it was an extraordinary thing, that made him the face of such power startling She really was a sensitive and her sensitivity seemed to find refuge in the dreams of young Johnny. They get along very well and it was one of those magical moments when took letters to anxious neto, who did amazing predictions about his future. Grandma Mary predicted, that Johnny would have a tumultuous life, separated into two distinct phases: until the 50 years and then in subsequent years, after completing this age. Years of many mishaps and tragic situations that could endanger their life and physical integrity, what really happened in the Decade of 60, when he suffered three air accidents (forced landings), FAB and aircraft miraculously escaped death when, in the last accident (explosion in Cumbica), where all crew members died, escaping only the mechanic and. .. Johnny. Didn't die because he was destined to live, because it had a long earthly mission to be accomplished.

Predicted he would marry very young and that this marriage would not be definitive, because they would suffer a setback irreconcilable. And so it was, when discovered, after 20 years of marriage, a terrible act of betrayal, surprising his wife and extramarital lover in a strange and unexpected sexual ritual, hard to see, hard to be supported. All this Grandmother Maria predicted and said that he would be alone in life, when you hit a half-century of its existence.

His predictions were beyond, when urged to life the grandchild would be object of strange occurrences that sequential relate to each other, in two phases of his life and that these events the connect in a way subjective to a woman, which would also by terrible marital problems as he and so should find and relate to, because it had a lot in common in their existence. This woman would be your "soul mate", would be the person who, for unexplained reasons, could not be part of the first phase of their lives when they were young. Are things of fate.

Anyway, the letters viewed situations of lost in translation, as if the target were joking with them, perhaps Foreshadowing what at first would be impossible for a definitive relationship between them, by reason of force majeure, but in the end would be together forever, uniting their hearts and completing what was missing in the first phase of their lives.

Let's see some of those strange situations and try to understand why were fleeting and not defined a deeper relationship between them.

In 1956, in São Paulo capital, 16-year-old Johnny, was a young college student, who was entering the São Paulo Union Secondary Students and later in the National Union of Students, the famous U.N.E., at first without any political intent in this engagement, only to take the student card, which would give her right to half price in theaters, but then ended up integrating and fell in love with because , which governed the political will of the young people of that time. That's where the story was complicated. Participated in many rallies and student Congress, which nearly cost his life. In Rio de Janeiro, a famous meeting of the Red Beach, representing São Paulo, were denounced and the meeting was dissolved by the military bullet. Everyone ran down the beach panicked and he, by some miracle, was not hit by the bullets. The other students, representatives of various Brazilian States, also went looking for hiding and it was at this very moment of my life, that Johnny met Fatima, the Fafa, student of Manaus, representing his State in this Congress and managed to run up in Niteroi alongside ... Johnny, where, after a quick exchange of glances, were taking care of their lives.

Years later there was a new and strange encounter of the couple, when Johnny giving low of Aeronautics, after accidents, just joining in the former Guardia Civil de São Paulo, later transformed into the military police of the State of São Paulo, with the unification of the police in 1970. He worked for many years as a translator and interpreter, good COP them at a tourist information booth at the old bus station of São Paulo, at Avenida Duque de Caxias. Right night, noticed that a young brunette, very pretty, spent in front of your cabin. Already had its presence in other days. She was always very fast, without setting eyes on anyone. He felt he already knew, but didn't remember where, but I never spoke to him, after all he was already married. Many years after this meeting (already living with Fatima), discovered that she had lived near the airport and it was her to Fatima and also the girl of his insane journey for Congress of U.N.E. fate continued to promote meetings and misunderstandings of them, without establishing any dialogue, because the time was not appropriate.

Another rather odd and unexpected situation happened during the fire the Andraus building on Avenida São João, in the old São Paulo capital. Johnny was interning at the Fire Department and the catastrophe was forced to join a team, at the beginning to tackle the fire, and then to do the aftermath. It was a terrible time, when dozens of charred bodies were found on floors and in the elevators in the building. He removed the bodies and drove to the ground floor, where dozens of nurses of the Red Cross helped put them in the ambulance and pickup trucks of the Forensic Medicine Institute. Suddenly, in the middle of them, was a nurse and brunette came your way to help you. He had the feeling that I already knew. -Who was it? Well, it was Fatima, the Fafa, of their other meetings, only that he did not remember. What a coincidence of fate. Again drifted away as if they never met. New joke of fate.

Still within the chapter of the tragedies, with the participation of the brave firemen paulistanos, Johnny felt in her own skin the hardships of the terrible flooding in old capital bandeirante. He had the embarrassment of taking knowledge, on a summer morning, that your little house in old Glycerius had been flooded by the smelly River Tamanduatei. Were frequent floods in the region, mainly in the Central Municipal market, where losses and the losses were. The military had just left the shift a battalion headquarters located in Brás and get home to misfortune. Arrived by boat, because it was impossible to use on the region. Two meters of water covering all the houses. Joined to a rescue group and there was him toward his home. Total loss. Only managed to save, by a miracle of nature, his salary, whose notes floated gracefully in the dirty waters, who invaded his room. Johnny's wife had gone to the fair and failed to return home. Was sheltered at the left of a family, next to the site of the flood. To get away from your home, in makeshift raft with empty fuel barrels, Johnny noticed that his dog Rex barked for help. Caught him on the roof of the House and put it on the ferry, where he had already been rescued dozens of people, one of them stepped forward to receive the puppy and covered with an old sweater.

Guess who was that person? Nothing more, nothing less than our already known Fatima of other adventures. The pet was shaking with cold and hunger, because he had spent all night on the roof. She and Johnny locked eyes with multiple sympathy, trying to remember where you knew each other, but the moment prevented any reflection deeper and got it, fate was still in its mission to keep them apart.

The years passed and there was no more a date until 1984, when Johnny surprised his wife in the Act of adultery and desquite was inevitable. He was living alone in a boarding house in pine and his lonely life took another direction. Don't let it get to him by setbacks to its existence, didn't settle and left for new activities, trying to circumvent the loneliness and sedentariedade. As they were sad their Sundays public plazas voids where people were, if did they hang out and he there, sad and lonely, "talk" to the pigeons, her only friends, who seemed to understand their suffering. I didn't know that, coincidentally, Fatima was living the same situation his solitary, although she had the companionship of a maiden aunt, who lived with her in her new apartment in Freedom, right near the apartment that rented the old Johnny Glycerius. Fafá separated from her husband, an incorrigible alcoholic that beat up from the honeymoon in Minas Gerais and it was impossible for a harmonious marriage life among them, in the face of so much violence. Swore he would never marry again. On one occasion, grabbed her by the legs, leaving her upside down and tried to throw her out of the apartment window on Amaral Gurgel, in consolation. Fate intervened and prevented his death God, because it was written that she would still find their soul mate and restart your life completely.

As the new activities of our Johnny, they expanded and turned it into an musician, after a period of study in a Conservatory of Santana, formed a Rock band and was playing with his gang of hairy and smelly rockers at the clubs of São Paulo. Missed its theatrical activities initiated at the time of adolescence and tried to restart them.

At the moment, fate decided to intervene again, as I did in other phases of your life. Decided to find some friends with actors he began his career in 1956 and one of them, today famous actor of theater and television, recommended him to look into the theatrical Director Tom Santos, owner of Applied Theatre (today Bibi Ferreira) on Brigadier Luis Antonio, because I was starting to work with a class, which I had never done theater because they were professionals of other areas and also with professional actors from the theater and I needed a refresher. Divine intervention was present again.

Johnny went to the theater and to his surprise mentioned was accepted to participate in a theatrical installation "death and life Severina" of João Cabral de Melo Neto and so radiant with happiness, on a beautiful spring morning, he went to his first rehearsal. Walked in, crossed the Hall and came to center stage, where several people were met. Tom, the Director, motioned for him to come near and began the presentations

and suddenly there was before him a beautiful girl, brunette with dark eyes for dark circles, which fleshed out gave him a gracious charm to the small face. -Who? Who? However, you still don't know, dear reader? The girl was Fatima, of lost in translation and they were facing each other, reunited again, thanks to more a trick of fate. Yes, there was your Fafa, your soul mate that was lost in the intricacies of life. The hearts now free of the chains that the acorrentavam the two marriages, adverse filled with anguish and disappointment, now were free and could restart its stocks, even if the years had left deep scars on their souls. The lost years were not pitied, because it's always nice to restart all over again and just ignore the past, or is an old page turned in the book of life. Johnny remembered that moment of your old grandmother Maria, the fortune teller, that to take a letter to his grandson, recommended:

-"You'll restart your life when you get to 50 years and this time it's going to be hard, with

the right person.

-"And my current marriage with Marlene and my children?

'' It Will become extinct with the dust of time. Your children you don't see them anymore

life, because they will be spread across this vast country, difficult to find.

Johnny realized that nothing more could change this situation because it was written in the book of life. The past would actually face and forgotten pages because you can't try to change the course of destiny. The premonitions of the old fortune teller became reality and half a century already lived became the dead leaves of a past that would never be revived. Life began for them not to 40 and 50 years, Yes to the with a couple more mature and more aware of their marital responsibilities. The reunion made possible in passing the clean all matches of lost in translation of their lives and come to the conclusion that they were born for each other. Johnny no longer cared about more than when you were going to die. It was no longer so important, because there was a new life to be lived.

Many ask if I believe in "soul mates", in premonitions, in destiny ... I don't know if be able to deny all of these issues, because as long as I'm Johnny witness that all the premonitions of my grandmother Mary really happened, I am also convinced that our targets were drawn by God and that really, in this second phase of my life was I found true happiness, next to my dear soul mate, Fatima figure of my most cherished dreams, my sweet dear wife, who decided to take care of me until the end of my trip, path end of our stocks. I'm sure this date is final and there will be no more misunderstandings. God bless Fafá. How long I've waited for you, but worth it!

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