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A quick glimpse of the present – Sara A. A quick glimpse of the present Posted on May 16, 2020May 16, 2020by SaraAnnecchino After two months of quarantine, the so-called phase two has begun and the country seems to be getting back that long-lost crumb of hope after weeks of great losses, uncertainty, debates, and fearful warnings. This doe...

Let me switch off my mind for as long as I can manage. Let me rest from the sounds and the voices, the small and big screens, the people and the duties. Let me walk in the fields and brush the vibrant grass with my hands and observe the leaves gently fluttering in the wind.
Leave me alone grasping this moment, for it might not feel the same tomorrow, for my heart might be broken once more, for I could get lost again. •
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@ Italy

We're all showing different coping mechanisms towards the current situation, and each of them is valid. Most of us are suddenly dealing with long, empty hours and I believe the best way to do it is fill them with all sorts of activities. The only way we, common people, have to fight this enemy is staying home, so let's try to help others if we can but also help ourselves and safeguard our physical and mental health.

Through thick and thin – Sara A. Through thick and thin Posted on March 27, 2020March 28, 2020by SaraAnnecchino While I write this the situation concerning COVID-19 in Italy hasn’t changed much since my last blog post. Here are a few numbers to make it more clear: (as of today) 86,498 total cases; 9,134 total deaths; 10,950 total...

Italy is going through some serious stuff right now and I felt like I had to write down an account of it.
Have a read and let me know what you think!

Tales from an Italian quarantine – Sara A. Tales from an Italian quarantine Posted on March 15, 2020March 15, 2020by SaraAnnecchino The streets are empty. Maybe it’s just a feeling, but I’m sure I can smell disinfectant in the air, almost as if I were walking around the halls of a hospital. People give each other unusual looks, with a so...

Experimenting with verses ✒️✒️✒️
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Risk-taking is a broad enough concept that this write-up will have a different meaning depending on who's reading it.
Inspiration was simple: I just woke up and realised life can change in the blink of an eye, moments, chances, people slip through your fingers if you let them go and maybe it's time to live with more awareness, so that whether decisions made are good or bad, they will at least be made with consciousness. •
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A Tuesday night contemplating good and bad stuff ended up like this 👌.
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When I was a little girl I remember I enjoyed playing alone in my room, pretending to be different people. Only recently I’ve realised I had an inclination for acting, it just came very naturally. I used to act as both the teacher and the student at once, modulating my voice to make it sound like my classmates’ voices.[...] Thinking about what’s left now of those years, I still recognise a tendency to “act”, in the sense of borrowing other people’s qualities and making them mine, and using them in specific situations. Does this mean I haven’t built my own personality? Absolutely not. I see it as a practiced skill used in social and work situations I’m not familiar with, for instance, and that helps a lot with getting comfortable or, at least, appearing so. I’m not faking anything, I’m not pretending to be somebody else this time, I’m just taking advantage of the details grabbed from all the human beings I encountered and those I’ve known for a lifetime, easing my way into adulthood.[...] As a teenager confused about people’s behaviors and about life in general, who could know that later in life I would find out that people’s characters are also the result of the environment they grow up in and the people they interact with? Even as adults we still learn by observing our mates.

These days have been an endless attempt to deal with a heartbreak. When anger hits hard, it’s also easier to cope with feelings, ’cause it just feels like the person who rejected you is the worst person in the whole world. Not even one good thought about that person crosses your mind, it’s all just hate and frustration. Then you start seeing things in a more objective way and you realise that you can’t focus your energies on somebody who showed you how much he doesn’t want you. [...] At some point, you’re going to look less at your phone in search of a text that will never come and more at all the good things that could come out of something so sorrowful. Afterall, life is just a series of ups and downs and we just have to accept we can’t stop changes from happening. And maybe, just maybe, looking at things with irony is better than weeping for something we don’t have control over.
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