🤔“Saudade”, what is this feeling?✒️Bababobo shop,Handicraft in Alfama, Lisbon, Portugal​💌​

〝Saudade is only beautiful in poetry, in songs. In real life, it tears the chest of those who feel it. 📖O epitáfio do nosso amor❤️‍🩹 Fernando Machado✒️

Saudade is a deep emotional concept, described by the Portuguese as one of the most untranslatable words in the world. It designates a complex mixture of nostalgia, melancholy and happiness linked to a memory or an absent person😭.

⚡An inhabited lack: Unlike simple sadness, saudade is the presence of an absence. It's what's left when you've lost everything, but remembered with love🥹.

⚡A “sad joy”: It’s the pleasure of remembering good times while feeling the pain of the fact that they may never come back😮.

⚡The Portuguese soul: It is inseparable from the culture of Portugal​🍎​🍋​🥒, particularly through Fado, a musical genre which expresses this feeling of departure and return.

⚡Etymology: The word comes from the Latin solitatem (loneliness), having evolved under the influence of the words "saúde" (health) and "saudar" (greet)."

Source: Google AI🔮

​🎤​You will have understood the meaning, ​but, one fado is better than 1000 words🎵​🎶...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3Nv93m20nI

Desfado - Ana Moura 🧜‍♀️

Quer o destino que eu não creia no destino

Wants the destiny that I don't believe in destiny

E o meu fado é nem ter fado nenhum

And my fado is having no fado at all

Cantá-lo bem sem sequer o ter sentido

Sing it well with having even felt it

Senti-lo como ninguém, mas não ter sentido algum

Feel it like no one , but having no meaning to it

Ai que tristeza esta minha alegria

Oh it's so sad my happiness

Ai que alegria esta tão grande tristeza

Oh it so happy my big sadness

Esperar que um dia eu não espere mais um dia

Waiting that one day I won't wait not even one day more

Por aquele que nunca vem e que aqui esteve presente

For that one who is never comes and that has been here present

Ai que saudade que eu tenho de ter saudade

Oh, how I miss feeling nostalgic.

Saudades de ter alguém que aqui está e não existe

I miss having someone who is here but doesn't exist.

Sentir-me triste só por me sentir tão bem

Feeling sad just because I feel so good.

E alegre sentir-me bem só por eu andar tão triste

And it's a joy to feel good just because I've been so sad.

Ai se eu pudesse não cantar ai se eu pudesse

Oh If I could not sing "oh if I could"

E lamentasse não ter mais nenhum lamento

And was sorry for not being sorry anymore

Talvez ouvisse no silêncio que fizesse

Maybe I could here in the silence that I'm making

Uma voz que fosse minha cantar alguém cá dentro

A voice that was mine singing someone inside me

Ai que desgraça esta sorte que me assiste

Oh what a disgrace this luck that hits me

Ai, mas que sorte eu viver tão desgraçada

Oh what a luck me living so disgracefully

Na incerteza que nada mais certo existe

In the uncertainty that nothing certain exists

Além da grande incerteza de não estar certa de nada

Besides the big uncertainty of not being certain of anything

Ai que saudade que eu tenho de ter saudade

Oh, how I miss feeling nostalgic.

Saudades de ter alguém que aqui está e não existe

I miss having someone who is here but doesn't exist.

Sentir-me triste só por me sentir tão bem

Feeling sad just because I feel so good.

E alegre sentir-me bem só por eu andar tão triste

And it's a joy to feel good just because I've been so sad.

Ai que saudade que eu tenho de ter saudade

Oh, how I miss feeling nostalgic.

Saudades de ter alguém que aqui está e não existe

I miss having someone who is here but doesn't exist.

Sentir-me triste só por me sentir tão bem

Feeling sad just because I feel so good.

E alegre sentir-me bem só por eu andar tão triste

And it's a joy to feel good just because I've been so sad.

Anda!

You!

✒️Writer: Pedro da Silva Martins

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