Memories

        Names are interesting representations, especially when they remind us of something lost in our childhood memories or something that happened in our youth. Popcorn, e.g., has a connection with our childhood.
        We feel this connection when we are adults, and that smell spreads through the air in cinemas and circuses, or events in the streets. Popcorn is sold in strategic places like bus stops when we are hungry and going back home. We can feel that smell that reminds us of how pleasant it was. And chewing those white pieces, our mouths fill with those eternal memories. The small heated package full of white pieces is pouring out from it, and a lot of them are falling on the pavement.
          Another memory is the convertible car. It reminds us of rebel times and a place full of girls going to the beach, symbolizing that joy was in the air. It was connected with teenagers without responsibility. Convertible cars with open tops were the dream of every boy. Maybe some of these boys had the opportunity to buy some of them when they became adults. It would be a kind of status quo, a way to go back to the past, and these adults become young guys again, although their white hair flows with the wind. Convertible cars were amazing and magic, like a flying carpet, and made a difference.
        But I have my special name. A name that reminds me, I don’t know the reason, of something sweet and special, principally because it is connected with women.
        It is a French name – Demoiselle – that’s the thing! Demoiselle, a young woman, I don’t know whether it’s intonation or is connected with the French language, a culture that reminds me of romantic and erotic times. Demoiselle brings to me something sweet, like candies or the way it sounds to me. Demoiselle sounds affectation, but not only a reference to young women. However, it’s an amazing connection with a beautiful girl.
         – Mademoiselle, mademoiselle.
        I was surprised by the origin of this name. It came from the Greek people and their culture. It came from Demosthenes and means girl. At weddings, it is the closest friend of the bride. It is something connected with butterflies, and there is nothing better than that because it represents the youth. It is in the picture that performs freedom. A young woman with her breasts exposed like a Demoiselle leading rebel people looking for their redemption.
        By the way, Demoiselle was the name of one of Santos Dumont’s experiments that flew around the Eiffel Tower in Paris. He called one of his planes Demoiselle because, I suppose, he considered his experiment a lover. In the end, there was only he and her in the air flying over Paris at the beginning of the Twentieth Century.
         Sometimes, I waste my time admiring girls who pass like demoiselles from my window. I can see them, always beautiful, spreading their youth for all like Demoiselles.

Photo from: Foto de Tim Mossholder na Unsplash 

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