To overcome her grief, she writes letters to strangers asking for good news.

You know when the world around you collapses and the pain is so great that it seems unbearable to see other people happy? Deep down, everyone feels this way when they experience a profound moment of sadness. It’s that feeling of “why did it have to happen to me?”

But then people like the journalist Natalia Souza, who decide to invert the game. And, in order to overcome a great loss, she is collecting other people’s happy stories, through a project called Tua Vida em Mim.

“There are people who are happiness in our lives. It’s an open window on a sunny day, a mother’s lap with cafuné. There are people who arrive in our lives, untying knots, loosening the tightness of our chest, opening a new look at the world and making it a better place.

Gino was that to me. He was a shelter where I went with my attempts and I always found an outstretched arm, a strategy and a path. A fresh wind for days with a stuffy heart.

But Gino died too soon. Gino died at the age of 32 from a rare and silent cancer.”

That’s how Natália tells a little of this love story, and, through letters scattered through the streets of São Paulo, she asks strangers to tell her a happy story. The idea for the project came on the eve of the first year of Gino’s death, who died in September 2015.

“The intention is simple, but for me very significant: fill these thirty days with beautiful events. And so, collectively, from gratitude to gratitude, I am sure: a new spring will bloom in my chest”, says Natália, who also maintains a blog in honor of her beloved.

To strangers who find her letters, she asks them to post their happy stories on Facebook or Instagram with the hashtags #your life in me and #agoodnews. And it doesn’t have to be anything grand, as she herself says: “It’s worth discovering a new flavor of ice cream, a wedding invitation, a promotion at work” or any joyful experience. Another thing Natália asks is that people pass on Gino’s story. “This way he keeps finding himself out there,” she sums it up.

The journalist also opens an invitation to anyone who wants to participate in the project, even without having found one of her physical letters, as she explains in a blog post. There, she also talks more about what Gino was like, in a testimonial that requires a few handkerchiefs to read.

Natália, we hope you manage to have a huge collection of happy stories. And, above all, that their stories can also be happier from now on.