The photo you can see here is a vanishing point from the lake of Como, where I come from. It's a quite small town in the north of Italy, pretty close to Switzerland and sorrounded by mountains which reflect themselves in a deep obscure lake. If you drive around this lake you can pass through many small villages just as the one you can catch a glimpse of the town on the photo. I will surely put more of its images because some time ago I became pretty proud of it. That's what I tried to express choosing the quote by this author to open my blog.
I found this sentence on the first page of the book I read the last time i took a flight to Barcelona and it effected me a bit. At that moment I recongized the mood I was in.
I found myself as in a vanishing point.
I realized that real things seem different if you look at them from afar such as the brown of the earth appear different getting away and leaving place to a continuos sky-blue when you are watching through the window of an airplane. Staying far from a place you know very well as your birth city is a good opportunity to look at it with different eyes and to find out how much part of your identity it is.
Anyway the pleasure to know new "realities, dimensions and worlds", to live in different streets, breathe different odors, to meet different people, to speak different languages, to understand different cultures, to destroy some of your absolute certainty and downsize most of your preconception and prejudice, to find what you didn't look for and couldn't imagine before, makes me sure that escaping is always worth.
So i'm here.
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It's not unusual to think about things when you are far away from them (I don't mean only in the distance). Usually, when you are close to something or someone, say a region, a person, or an event, you get lost with details and you can't figure out how the whole picture is and what the important things are.
I wonder you are from lake of Como. It is nice. I went to lake of Como two years ago. I went to Venice and from Venice I drove to lake of Garda and to lake of Como and after to Torino. Italy is a nice country. But I found lake of Como more touristy than I expected.
Nice pictures in your bloc. And I am sure you are less lazy than you said.
:)
Very nice..
You are a bit of your land..
-you can pass THROUGH many small villageS
-glimpse OF THE TOWN ON the photo.
-REMEMBER ALL THE "I" SHOULD BE CAPITAL LETTER.
-some time(0) ago I became pretty proud of it.
-That's what "I" trIed to express choosing the quote BY this author to open my blog.
-the last time I took a FLIGHT
-the mood I was in
-i realized that REAL things seem different if you look at them FROM afar such as THE BROWN OF THE EARTH appearS different getting away and leaving place to a continuoUs sky-blue
welcome so,I have never met any italian.You don'tlook as an italian person,Ithought you where from Andalusia!!!What a beautiful view,you have the chance of being from there I would like to go there.It's an interesting country Italy,I think it's the spotlight of the world because you are our origin.Please more from your country
With your text you create an intimate and special atmosphere even reading at you. If I were readng your text aloud, I'd do it slowly and in a very low voice.
I felt something similar when my mother drove away from the place where I lived as a little girl.
Nice post!
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