Yesterday I was told that I am “a magnet of sweetness”. Words that for me have had an important meaning because they were pronounced precisely by those young people who are usually considered not able to recognize sweetness, demonstrating not only that appearances are deceiving, but that what the young seek is perhaps something rare. I do not know if I am really so sweet, … Continua a leggere To Be A Magnet

Live like in a dream … die like in a video game … separated from reality in the atrocious beauty and pain of life and death, without understanding anything either of one or the other. What is the reality? A time made of contrasting contrasts even among them; a time made up of voices that blather and accuse even themselves, but without realizing it; a … Continua a leggere Living like the Heliotrope, Also Known as “Sunflower”

Hate is never a coincidence, but a subtle way of constructing false enemies in order to obtain privileges and consents that otherwise one would not be able to earn. Hating and propagating hate is easier than committing to building relationships of peace and love. In fact, perhaps due to a primordial need for self-protection, human beings are easily led to think that the others can represent … Continua a leggere Hate is Never a Case

Courage is never an action without conscience because it is never an instantaneous and not thought action, but the action that follows a way of living and believe. Courage is what we are and what we believe that can make us courageous and not the limited reaction to an event that involves us. Courage is more than improvisation, it is the expression of our coherence between … Continua a leggere Courageous and Free Conscience

Beauty is never what appears. It is the inner condition of a a gaze that settles with tenderness on what lives and what you live, no matter if it is beautiful or ugly, wether it benefits or not; the real gain is in the look itself that has been able to maintain its constant and dignified pride despite and thanks everything. Beauty is never the … Continua a leggere In Praise of Effective Beauty

It is probably normal to aspire to satisfaction as well as to a personal contentment, above all if your work is as honest as it should be and as decent as you want. Yet, these ambitions should be realized without resorting to unworthy actions; as a matter of fact, the personal accomplishment should never be paid by others’ compression and pain. Once the old told … Continua a leggere The Thought of the Simple Things

Writing is testifying. Yes, it is undoubtedly testifying. The essence of writing, however, is not only witnessing, but also direct involvement in the narration, with all the respect that our narrative would like and that the others deserve. If you testify, above all of the pain, the voice of others becomes your voice, not because you become him or her, but because that story cannot … Continua a leggere Words and Meaning

Who knows, perhaps the need for visibility actually makes us more inaccessible and invisible, since it responds to the silence of those who are willing to make any compromise in order to have an infinitesimal instant of notoriety. Famous not because something good or bad has actually been done; famous not because they can be imitated; famous not because a new discovery has put us … Continua a leggere Visible Invisibility

We should learn to put ourselves in others’ shoes, but we should also learn to watch at ourselves with our own eyes as well. In a few but impressive words, that means to be true. I don’t think it could be a contradiction, because I suppose that nor the others nor ourselves should be in contrast among them and with the reality. Wearing others’ shoes … Continua a leggere Recomposing Identities