J. and I share 1 segment of the genome. He told me that he took the test out of curiosity despite knowing that he would be mainly Native American. His parents are Mexican, but he was born in the USA where he lived his entire life. He has very good memories of when he was a child and went on vacation to Mexico and of how he felt close to his cousins. He spoke to me about that time in his life with a certain nostalgia, about the time when things were simpler, without worries. We shared our age with each other: I’m 35 and he is is 30. We shared this feeling of the turning 30 years. It seems that until then everything was more relaxed and suddenly we realise that you cannot stop time anymore and with that comes the worries and it seems that everything changes, your body, your fears, your dreams, it seems that innocence ends at 30, like we inevitably become adults. There is a Portuguese film called “A Cara que Mereces” by Miguel Gomes that begins with the following sentence: “Until you are thirty, you have the face that God gave you, then you have the face you deserve”. This phrase has not left my mind to this day.
He told me it was snowing in Texas and that was why he was at home, he and his dog N. I met N. and I wanted to share my cat with him, but at that time I was only able to share the cat's bed, I am waiting to find a cat to adopt.
J. loves to travel and has the dream of living in Japan.
