Salvador, Bahia - I feel the pleasure of not having been nor will be making part of the best Carnival in the world (so they say…), even living 10Km away from the place where it is happening.
And why is this so important for me? Because all people around me had the worry of telling me that Carnival in Salvador is to be seen at least once in a life time even not liking this kind of party. Therefore I should go, as they said. I didn’t go!! I know, I will burn in hell ever after but who cares? Hell is like God, doesn’t exist if you don’t want it to exist.
I usually don’t waste time trying to understand why some specific event or thing makes one’s day. I will not then try to understand why a party like Carnival is so damned important for the Brazilian people in Salvador, Bahia because there are so many things in here which I believe I will not be able to understand. I will not try to understand how good can be a party where you go to with all your red alarms on, blinking and horning like hell, to not being robbed, hit or killed by a huge crowd which happen to be drunk or drugged and/or totally submitted to the slogan “É Carnaval, ninguem leva a mal“.
And of course not, I definitely will not try to connect the deep Christian religiosity of Brazil to the fact that its main national party has profane origins…
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