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#19 - Brief reflection

Apart from smiling when I read lists of negative things about London like this, I realise that, apart from the lack of biscuits (which I more than willingly exchange for a good pint), there is no difference with life in Milan, apart from all the positives of London. And I keep telling myself: but then, who makes me stay here?...

It may rain

After all, it has only been two months since I have written anything, I tell myself looking at the date of the last post.
In the meantime, we went on holiday to London, and I must say that since then, my life has never been the same. I love that city, and I will try everything to go and live there....

The quality of life

A few days ago, I was on the phone with a dear friend, and in between our chats, he said a sentence that has been going through my brain ever since I heard it:

When we have time to do the things we want, we don’t have the money; when we have the money, we don’t have the time....

Vintage, she said

After the renewal operation, I visited a few visits, including the ophthalmologist.
When you realize that to read on your mobile you move it at least 10 cm away, you know it’s your time has come.
In fact, the ophthalmologist confirmed my astigmatism (very slight, but with the advice of using the glasses I already had to watch television),...

New Year's Eve

Last year, and the year before, I railed against the year ending and hoped for a better year.
What happened was that from year to year, things got worse.
This year I have railed against the year all year (I apologise for the horrible pun).
Now that it’s ending, I’m sad to see it go this year....

Five years

Today it is five years that I am extremely lucky.
It seems like yesterday, and yet it is a long time.
So much has changed in five years, we have changed too, yet we are still together.

I have always thought about the love in a couple, the friendship, the trust.
Yet the most beautiful and most important thing we have built together I did not know,...

Den for autumn

It’s official: it’s autumn.
I have always liked this thing about the seasons, about cyclicity, because I am convinced that change, in general, is good, apart from the fixed points that are then the cornerstones of a person’s life.
Autumn is a bit of a gloomy season. Still, it has its advantages: it’s not yet that cold beaky weather that accompanies Christmas,...

Happy New Year

Some events seem small but make you practically question your whole life without much of a reason.
Then you add to that the rain, the cold weather, the people who have the terrible habit of coming back from their holidays all at once, the Indian neighbour who plays loud music at all hours, and you end up feeling at least a little sick....