Long Life Journey

26/01/2022

From the beautiful Castel Sant'Elmo in Naples, you can have one of the beautiful views of the city. Maybe just on top of The Vesuvio is better :)

360 Degree of the stunning panorama. The Vesuvio, the gulf, the city center, till the islands! What an amazing place to enjoy sunsets!!!

This place is on the top of natural high rock and is basically dominating the city and the gulf.
When I was on the top of this castle the following thoughts caught me.

As I strive to become someone or something in life, I'm not always starting directly from that thing. It can be a profession, a skill, or a position/status. I'm always starting from somewhere else.
For instance, to become a journalist I need before to master words and of course, I need to have creativity in order to write nice and great things. I need moreover to be clear in what I write and explain my thoughts clearly with my words.

Although it's not always possible to do immediately what I would like to do, as for instance be a journalist,
I can throughout the day be aware of the qualities that are paramount to the aim I wanna reach and throughout my day cultivate them and look for those situations where I can enhance those qualities that are important as I will be a journalist.

In order to become a good journalist, I need to use exact words in the correct context, I need to be clear while exposing concepts, and so on...

The rock on which is built the castle represents the reality and the natural situations that life offers me to pursue those qualities, that are so dramatically important for my profession.
It's just a matter of exercise. The castle represents my desired profession or skills/status.

Once I've learned those qualities doesn't matter if I'm writing on a paper or speaking in front of the desk of the Post Office. Because once I've learned to build my caste in front of the giving and available rock, given from my actual reality, next time that I will encounter another plateau or rock where to build a new castle, I will know exactly what it needs to build a strong, solid and suitable castles for the conditions I'm confronted with.

17/01/2022

Last time that I've entered the Colosseum I was maybe 11 years old, with my class of course.
At that time the farthest I was looking was the back of my friends while playing around.

Again after more than 20 years I've visited this monument.
The greatness, the air, the beauty of this building. Everything makes the difference after visiting the Colosseum. I've never been a fan of this place but last time as I was there, my thoughts were submerged in another time.

Really I've felt being in the old Roman Empire and kind of experienced the feeling of being in Rome and what, maybe, it meant being a citizen of Rome, for the Romans at that time.
The marvellous of this ancient giant was astounding and it let me feel the fortune I have to be today a citizen of Rome, the opportunities, the possibilities of learning from its ruins and its treasures.

It was revelatory! Next time, when working with tourists they will ask me "Are you suggesting to visit the Colosseum?" I will only saying :"Do it!"

16/01/2022

Lost shops 🌁📖- I'm sure Rome has lots to offer. But sometimes evading from the crowd and entering old shops where it seems that the time has stopped, gives me the possibility to think yo the city in another way. A real city and not a big Disneyland for tourists (including myself). In this shop for example just behind Piazza Navona I could explore the many lives hence the many objects that people touched and seems almost as that roots me again, remembering me to observe the life eventually not just from my point of view. Many lives passed through the gate, mine is just of the many. For me the most important! But not the only one! Remembering me that I'm just a little piece of the big puzzle of eternity gives me a sort of relief to look from a more so er perspective also the wonderfully beauties of Rome. I'm not the protagonist of those places, just a happy observer of them! :)

15/01/2022

The Details - Details are really an aspect of life so important as the big picture.
Take this picture. It seems that it's just a fountain as many others in Rome. Maybe you would attribute the form to nice amphore, because they are a "Cute form" to make a fountain with. But if you investigate more deeply you will learn that in the neighborhood of Testaccio there is the first dump of the city in the ancient Rome and that eventually this amazing of tons and tons of amphores in the neighborhood create an artificial hill made completely from shards of the amphores.53 Millions to be exact.
The importance of the details is not just about noticing them, but also to deepen into and study the story they may teach.

14/01/2022

The Flying Bird - Being a dreamer, it's not about being a person that is disconnected from reality.
It's more someone that brings his hopes, projects and desires in the realm of the senses hence because he believes in them can eventually realize 'em so fool as they seems.

13/01/2022

Sometimes is tricky to understand, but most of the time, if I cannot feel the thrill of living excited what I'm doing there is something to question. Something I need to change in myself to bring a broader view of a matter, a problem or an activity. That's not just what I'm doing but more the how I'm doing it that's paramount.
Seeing things from a different perspective and living them with a different meaning can turn out to be what makes the difference eventually.
The meaning is the colour with which I'm painting my reality and therefore my activities.
Spending time on these activities and getting better and a broader vision of'em is what should be the parameters with which every time I'm spending time on them I should take care of.

11/01/2022

Aqueducts, chimneys and mountains -

Those three things are always there in the reality but depending from the light, from the snow on the mountains or from the proximity with which I'm looking to them, the landscape can dramatically changing and therefore I can become more or less aware of some details.
But it isn't like this also in life?
We tend to be aware of certain things once we've lost them or as we are approaching them from another perspective although those elements as in the photos, will always remain the same.
So let's be hungry enough to glimpse those details also when everything appears flat and simple. To be able to observe is a skill too.

10/01/2022

When the time will be ripe you will find the place that you can already glimpse between the stones of those villages you are visiting. Till then, go ahead and enjoy what life is offering to you now while cultivating in your heart that desire. Soon or later that garden will open its doors to you. But before making a step more to get through the hardest doors you'll ever meet. Those of your heart.

08/01/2022

As one of those places that are there to be recalled every time I need an inspiration of what should be a better life, this place will for sure pop up in my mind!

08/01/2022

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28/12/2021