Reintroduction

When I started this blog, I was working on a university subject called Writing the City. I chose the theory of the Derive by Guy Debord because I liked the idea of strolling through unusual paths in order to get emotionally disoriented. I felt my life was a bit like that, I certainly took paths I did not plan in advance, which led me to discover geographical areas I would have never dreamt of.

The theory of the derive was for me a great representation of how I feel liberated when I just suddenly make a turn or a stop or a sprint run towards something completely new, that each time makes me feel free, or lonely, or lost: but how I, after all, enjoy the ride, wherever it takes me.

This blog then became a collection of what I was writing in my online collaborations: mainly fashion, but also lifestyle, dating, and some horrific essays I’ve done for some courses, that somehow –I don’t know what I was thinking! - I thought I’d keep.

Taking a step back from article writing, I re-discovered an old love: pen and paper. In a very special journal, I took up writing with a fountain pen that would get my fingers very dirty and my heart full of passion. Journaling is something I’ve always done pretty much since I learnt to write (and even before, my mum would say). The fact is, it helps make writing just what it should be: a collection of thoughts that comes straight from the heart.

Hence, I decided to get back to this derive, and try once more to write online, without the article format, without a public so far, to write the city and the space around me...or simply write. Considering I am taking another weird turn not only in the temporal dimension of my life but also geographically, as I just spent six wonderful weeks in Argentina and I am now in Mexico, I should definitely document this derive and be proud of my Debourdian side and how good I got at getting lost.