The desire to belong to something that existed before oneself — a continuity that cannot be built from scratch, only inherited, or entered through proximity.
Moments of transmission: returning after growing up elsewhere, or laying the ground for what will one day be passed on to one's children.
Not a prestigious address, but the feeling that one's family already belongs somewhere before ever having chosen to live there.
Here, days have a slow and predictable rhythm — few streets, little commerce, silence from dinner onwards. Relationships form slowly, often across generations, between families who have passed each other in the same streets for decades. A child who grows up in Lapa grows up with an early sense of continuity — of belonging to something larger than the immediate family.
Rootedness.
If the bond of continuity is not genuinely present, the risk is inhabiting a quiet and expensive address without ever feeling part of it.
