Silenzio Report

Illustration by me

Some are saying that life is the most sacred gift. We are supposed to treasure it. And enjoy it. We grasp life one second at a time. We consume it with our senses and wonder at its mysteries. Since we are able to think, we try, in one way or another, to figure it out. We try to comprehend its vastness. We learn a bit every day and yet we continue to sail into the unknown reaching further one heart beat at a time. And in all this time we are drove by our survival instinct. We are capable of doing great things and overcome impossible obstacles. We are resilient. Our capacity to adapt, to invent, to survive against the odds is our greatest ability. And then is the suicide. Read the rest of this entry »

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Maybe people are just not meant to be together. And we all know that people are social animals. We need each other, we attract each other, we have shaped our world and ourselves to meet and get in love. But after we do that, somehow we always destroy it. All that beauty vanishes. All that passion is consumed. All those great words and promises turn into meaningless nonsense. And the attraction… you always find it somewhere else.

Love. I need that. We all do. We seek for it every single moment of our life. Even when we don’t know we are still searching for it. Everything spins around love, and that is a fact. It’s a great mystery for me how that absolute insane perfect bliss that we call love is the most wanted thing in the universe and in the same time is the main reason that makes us hate each other. Read the rest of this entry »