Author: Andrea Grassi

Today I walked to the railway station. It’s quite a long road from where a work and even at a fast pace it takes almost 30 minutes to get there.

I usually go to work by car, but today it was different.
It was a sunny day and what stroke me is that when we walk we experience the world in the full range of what it can offer.

The sun, the wind, the air, the people talking. Everything is perceivable by you.
instead if you are in the car you can’t enjoy this beauty and you’ll miss it.

Walk more.

Few days ago there was some talking in a closed room in the office. Suddenly my name pops up and I can hear them.

Maybe they were talking about me, maybe not but 2 things stroke in my head at that time

We always think about “Us”

Whenever someone says our name we start dreaming about the implications of our name.
What would they talk about? Is it because there’s an issue with my work? Is it because they don’t like me?

Thought like this are normal, unavoidable, and often hard to calm down.
When you start thinking you keep thinking.

Why? Our life revolves around us so I would expect us to be that much interested in knowing what’s going to happen, isn’t it?

Secrecy is a double edged weapon

Sometimes secrecy is a way to shield people from issues, but it can be counterproductive because people “think way too much”.
I believe in this case that secrecy is good if you can fully shield the secret content itself.

Otherwise even a glimpse of the content would have consequences.

When you can’t sleep because you’re worried, because you feel like you have no exit, because there is pressure on your life.
That moment when the world overcomes your ability to handle life itself and you feel powerless.

It has been a while since I’ve experienced it.
Not that I’m immune to it, but lately I’m more and more able to manage it because I listen to what my mind tries to say. I listen to my fears and all those voices in my head.
And after listening, I know they’re fake.

All of them. There’s no voice in your head that knows the truth.
Yesterday night my girlfriend couldn’t sleep. So much is happening and for her this is a hard time.
But it’s ok. Even in the worst case we are fine. There is no issue, no problem, nothing.
Everything is fine, but the pressure for her is unbearable therefore she can’t sleep.

Maybe you have voices telling you that everything will go wrong. And maybe sometimes they will be right.
But they didn’t saw the future. No, they instead acted on your reality to force you into their future, or maybe for this time you were unlucky.

Part of the calm that I have is that usually I tend to prepare. I know beforehand when an issue is gonna strike so why can’t we prepare for it?
It might as well be useless but preparing isn’t gonna ruin my world and is surely adding some relax to my life.

The idea that you can “manage the situation when it starts happening” is nice but in life you need some more advantage. You need to be prepared, to be calm.
And to do that you have to ignore any kind of fear.
Because fear can’t advise you.

What is your perfect home? How would you define it?
We all have our idea of how we should greet people, invite them to our house, threat them to the best food.

Each of us has an idea of the perfect home, and why shouldn’t we.
After all a home is the foundation of our life.

These days me and my gf are searching for our home, and sometimes I wonder if the beauty of a home is all about the visualization that takes place when you first visit it.
Imagination, that’s it. Nothing real, just a hint of a dream.

Maybe that’s all, maybe it all means that we’re slaves of dreams and we should start living with less, less furniture, less spending. Less.

We all hide behind a mask.

Sometimes we are clowns, sometimes Doctor, and I’m not talking about jobs. 

We shouldn’t judge people based on how they look because sometimes their thoughts are deeper that what they seem to be.

To discover this you have to allow them to express freely, to not judge them nor force them. You can’t ask an introvert to do a conference, but you can allow him to express himself in his way. Free of any chain.

Only then you’ll know who’s behind the mask, and maybe that will be the time when you reveal yourself too.