Who will you meet?
Suffering brings wisdom. This pandemic has revolutionised and brought many people’s lives to a standstill, leading to a reconsideration of what we used to define normality, ordinariness, of daily actions we took for granted. Interpersonal relationships were too part of a common and often distracted social practice; throughout the long months of lockdown, we have unfortunately had to learn to cope with loneliness, to find ourselves in sometimes detached familiar environments, to do without the network of connections that populate and refine our lives. I don’t know who I’ll be meeting after this strange period, we’ve seen how impossible it is to exercise true control on our existences, but we can act on our emotions. I would therefore like to meet better, feel the sheer joy of getting to know, of discovering others, dedicating time and more attention to them, thinking about the value of the moment itself, of the encounter as a gift and not as a certainty.