Philosophical sonnet: stained glass shards and truths

What would this individuality be, since I am built from shards that for a few moments became stained glass?...

When thinking about the universe, I refer to all the things that surround me. Automatically, I appropriate the great reflections of a great Greek philosopher – Aristotle – when, in his frantic quest to understand the world, he brought legendary reflections that help us to idealize a world that is ours at first, but as soon as it is stolen from us.

In this search, I hitchhike and take care of thoughts that begin to be part of my story. It's that simple.

What did I learn from Aristotle?

He told me that everything in the world has something universal, but it doesn't lose its individuality.

Intriguing, but I didn't understand.

What would this individuality be, since I am built from shards that for a few moments became stained glass?

These beautiful and significant shards (sometimes random and meaningless) need the sun to shine their beauty, to stop being simple shards and become stained glass.

It's... This is too complex.

However, Rubens Alves (quoting an excerpt from his friend Maria Antônia de Oliveira) helps me to understand that life is about incomplete caricatures, with varied, bright colors and that many shards were mine and well lived and others not so much.

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“Life is portrayed in time forming a stained glass window, with an always incomplete design and varied, bright colors when the sun passes by.

Random stonework happens from pieces, leaving irreversible holes.

The shards are lost around...

I scan them trying to remember

What else were they part of?”. (ALVES, 2009).

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In fact, stained glass makes us characters in plots that systematically materialize and teach us that we need shards to become stained glass.

With these philosophical manifestations, I propose to unveil some impressions and characteristics that added to my construction and formulation of certain truths built in the curriculum of life, where the possibilities of changes are always conditioned to identities and that are manifested through people who have become important in a given period.

These people, over time, were deconstructed by interests – or not – and by manifestations of values and principles that are formatted with new conceptions, becoming responsible for new perspectives and that make me a new being or a prisoner from a time that I don't manage... I just follow.

Antelmara Silva.

Pedagogue and degree in Philosophy.