Thoughts
Risk ~ 27/06/2021 ~ Kreuzberg ~ 92 words
It seems that at school as children, the concept of risk is almost completely ignored, or it is always given a negative meaning, similar with gambling. Yet, while growing up, it is easy to understand how risk is the basis of any decision. It is common to say that limited risk has limited benefits. Short-term risk entails benefits following the same time frame. It is therefore important to know how to accept and calculate risks capable of guaranteeing long-term benefits, thinking in the order of years, if not even decades.
Uphill ~ 13/06/2021 ~ Porto Valtravaglia ~ 95 words
It is difficult to list all the lessons that can be learned during an uphill journey. Fatigue is often the first thing that comes to mind when there is an uphill. Uphill and fatigue, words that get along well with each other. Difficult goals are a privilege for the brave people who find courage and energy to start an uphill. During these routes the most difficult moments are the start and the approach to the end, when fatigue and relaxation can play dangerous tricks. Not insignificant detail, uphill means downhill, but this is another story.
Empty ~ 09/05/2021 ~ Treptow ~ 87 words
It is curious to think how the meaning of the word empty changes perspective with the passage of time. Having an empty mind as a child has a negative meaning, while as a conscious adult, it turns into a fantastic compliment. Something empty implies the possibility of filling, potentially in a positive and constructive way. Empty evoques flexibility and lightness, increasingly important sensations as an existence evolves. Empty is also the place where all has started. Returning to the origins is therefore basically a return to the empty.
Calm ~ 26/04/2021 ~ Kreuzberg ~ 117 word
Calm represents a portal in which it is important to pass through in order to unlock objectives and therefore results. Even in haste and urgency calm is mandatory. A quiet mind is able to concentrate on a few rational decisions, taking the right directions. Calmness allows to evaluate risks and benefits, avoiding trivial errors. Calm is a path, most of the time, far from being calm. But it is precisely during such a journey that it is possible to understand the importance of being able to count on a calm state of mind. Moreover, experience can leads to the development of a series of techniques and habits to quickly re-establish the desired sense of internal life.
Plateax ~ 02/03/2021 ~ Treptow ~ 99 words
Being aware of the meaning of plateaux is undoubtedly something that should be reached as soon as possible in life, given theire extreme importance, as well as the their almost infinite nuances. Plateaux indicates a stalemate in which an individual can be found after having experienced a period of growth. They are everywhere, characterizing entire existences, separating winners from losers. Knowing how to recognize a plateaux is an important step, much easier than knowing how to deal with it. A plateaux can be physical, mental, social, economic, linguistic, and so on. Even these words are basically part of a plateaux.
Sunday ~ 17/01/2021 ~ Kreuzberg ~ 102 words
Sunday is the day when there is the right, and perhaps the duty, of doing whatever activity there is a spontaneous desire, without any rhythm, without any pressure. It is beautiful to choose in a completely light way in which activity dedicate yourself to, whether it is the favorite hobby or simply a well-deserved rest. Sunday serves as a buffer to realign mental and physical energies dissipated throughout the week. Nature itself did not foresee the existence of Sundays or weekly intervals, but it is extremely convenient for humans to be regulated following certain cycles that are nowadays totally established and accepted.
Goals ~ 30/12/2020 ~ Ticinallo ~ 104 words
It is typical and probably healthy at the end of the year making a list of good intentions for the next. Growing means realising how these lists should not be filled in every possibile way, but rather, left sparse, inserting only very specific but certainly ambitious goals. These goals must not become a source of obsession and therefore concern. They are a constant source of motivation, fuel and destination at the same time. Goals should be shared only once they have been achieved, avoiding all those mechanisms that are constantly triggered as soon as ambitions are decalred. Goals as medium to achieve new goals.
Increase ~ 20/11/2020 ~ Prenzlauer Berg ~ 94 words
The need and the will to improve something implies having to push further a limit set previously. The approach must be gradual but constant, avoiding quick jumps. First of all, an effective routine must be established, building an incremental path on top of it. Being flat leads to boredom and even sometimes to a qualitative decrease, mainly dictated by a lowering of tension. It is therefore important to accept having to go further, raising the famous bar. In this way, through a shared stimulation of growth, also the people around can benefit from it.
Semplicity ~ 01/11/2020 ~ Kreuzberg ~ 103 words
One of the things worth thinking about is how simplicity can be measured. A coefficient that decreases when complexity increases. It is beautiful to make efforts to reach a goal thinking about simplicity. Even more beautiful is the feeling of having understood how to restructure something, having a simpler solution into hands. Simplicity can be a lifestyle to follow. A courageous and ambitious choice. Simplicity requires sacrifices in the short term. It guarantees enormous benefits in the long run. Simplicity as an extreme act of rebellion. Fewer and fewer are choosing this direction. Simplicity is knowing more with less. It avoids suffocating lives.
Multiply ~ 14/10/2020 ~ Kreuzberg ~ 103 words
Paradoxically at some point in order to improve in one direction it is necessary to undertake new ones. This is due to the fact that arts and techniques are linked together by unidentifiable threads. Experience helps identifying these structures. Multiplication means the awareness of being able to enormously increase a total by vibrating skills that are not strictly linked to each other, obtaining a greater result than would not be possible by developing certain skills individually. From an economic point of view, the comparison could be made with composite interests. Time if used correctly is still the most exceptional of multipliers.
Continuity ~ 30/09/2020 ~ Treptow ~ 102 words
There is nothing better than the feeling of having acquired rhythm, moment, inertia.
Repeating an action with methodical continuity allows you to notice progress and improvements, motivational fuel to repeat the activity again.
Continuity in gestures, words, ideas, relationships. The fields of application are infinite. The benefits incalculable.
Continuity creates macro structures in which it is possible to build new ones, like a puzzle without borders.
One’s own continuity allows others to hook into it, creating energies that move in unison.
Sometimes the pleasure to interrupt continuity, in order to rediscover the need to throw yourself back in it again.
Noise ~ 28/09/2020 ~ Treptow ~ 92 words
Among the multitudes of frequencies to which each individual is subjected, the most precious are hidden, completely absorbed in a context of total noise. It is therefore unlikely to be able to capture them, unless working on the noise, reducing it as much as possible. Special frequencies will start to be easier to identify and consequently to own. High-level comparison with gravitational waves’ detectors. Noise is an integral part of the human experience, an inevitable sword hanging over the head of this troubled humanity. Clearest calm can emerge from disorder.
Belief ~ 23/09/2020 ~ Kreuzberg ~ 107 words
A song can generate moments of clarity in which it is obvious how things will inevitably go in the desired direction.
Small signals that if added together generate stronger ones. Knowing how to let those signals multiply themselves as next level, amplifing the outcome.
The belief in flourishing ideas. Head held high, firm handshake, serious look, but at the same time, crazy confidence of knowing how to go exploit schemas.
The belief that it will take time. It is now established how everything arrives at the right moment.
The belief of having made the right mistakes.
The belief of sowning quality that suddenly grows beauty.
Immensity ~ 12/09/2020 ~ Neukölln ~ 100 words
At times, unexpectedly, a feeling of difficult placement arises, leaving the mouth stuck, the mind clear, the eyes full of amazement.
There is no need of natural landscapes to reach it.
Sometimes, crossing a city in turmoil is enough to realize you are touching the concept of immensity.
The eyes are the medium transforming the sum of images into something profound.
The awareness of how everything in any case is destined to disappear in the dark depths of immensity.
For this reason, perhaps, it is important from now to know how to share your world with someone else.
Inputs ~ 08/09/2020 ~ Kreuzberg ~ 104 words
There are inputs of any kind, all around, a multitude of possibilities, an endless stream of potential directions. Quality has a fundamental role, there is no fear in filtering out the noise. Fussiness and selectivity, but also receptivity, positive unexpectedness comes from complete random situations. Rumors whisper it seems the best ones are hidden just outside the comfort zone. There is also the other side. Be a source of inputs for other people. Enthusiasm to discuss ideas, proposing alternatives, encouraging dreaming, finally criticize constructively. Receiving and giving inputs go hand in hand, two sides of the same coin, essential to each other.
Changes ~ 01/09/2020 ~ Kreuzberg ~ 104 words
In youth changes are daily bread. A continuous, sometimes excessive search for the new. Growing up means avoiding the unplanned whenever possible, while focusing instead on specific and targeted changes. Everyday life shows that small changes are happening continuously all around, while switching perspective for a certain time reveals the substantial ones. Despite appearance seems to say that changes have occurred, for a good observer, a deeper view shows that at the end of the day, nothing has really changed. Arriving at this conclusion most probably means that a change has happened without being noticed on an earlier stage. The interior one.
Dreams ~ 25/08/2020 ~ Ticinallo ~ 98 words
How dreams work is still a mystery. What is certain is how they give the impetus to achieve goals that are apparentely too far to reach. Some are so beautiful that it is even hard to think about them. Others are dreams to unlock new dreams, as if they are the door to access a magical world. Dreams are perhaps more beautiful if shared with someone. They are probably easier to achieve. Dreaming about someone so far away that might seem unreachable. But exactly there is the secret of the dream: never stop believing in it.
Bitter ~ 19/08/2020 ~ Ticinallo ~ 108 words
The sweet taste of bitterness at night. It seems modern times require to handle this feeling with confidence, as it is very often present. It might be that this society tends to create too many expectations, or perhaps there is a shared inability of being satisfied. Maybe, when an individual reaches a certain level of knowledge, it is no longer possibile to escape this feeling. Never underestimate the importance to talk about it with others, as well as the awareness of how bitterness itself gives strength to try again. On the other hand, with slight obviousness, the only way to understand joy is to experience bitterness.
Return ~ 15/08/2020 ~ Isola d’Elba ~ 102 words
Probably only life, intended as existence, is a one way journey. Anything else recursively requires a return. As essential part of any experience, returns must be treated with care, since often difficoultes are hidden on them. Energies and time are resources that must be spread along the whole path. Returns are beautiful in the way they conclude, but also, how they force the mind to think about them. Appreciating a return is an extreme sign of romance. It is an indication of equilibrum and ability to fully enjoy the full spectrum of an experience. When something ends, something new starts.
Writing ~ 10/08/2020 ~ Messina ~ 97 words
The beauty and importance of writing by hand is still unbeatable. However, whether manual or digital, the triggered mental mechanisms are almost the same. Writing following a rigid apporach: one argument, one hundred words, seamlessly picking a topic of which there is natural desire to talk about. These limitations in order to teach specificness without wasting resources decorating superficialities. Words are precious, they must be used with care. Repeating this activity will help developing many important skills, in addition to a good collection of reflections which might be useful for a future version of yourself.