Hello.
My name is Alexander, but my friends call me Ale. I believe these eight words are enough for the part that concerns me. Now begins the part that concerns you. Yeah, well: you know perfectly well that today is the last day of 2010, and say that you know perfectly well why the anxiety of what to do tonight you will be taken at least two months ago because a sadistic torturer decided that the end of each year the fun is coercive.
Because ... think again. It is not celebrating no birth, no death. No resurrection, real or hypothetical. It is the anniversary of anything: neither the end of a war, nor peace, nor the independence of a people. No miracles, tragedies, famous speeches. No prizes, no great step for man nor for humanity.
It's just that the Earth has made a lap around the sun Another. At least the duemiladecimo (but many, many more in reality). A year has passed, almost artificial concept. Celebrating an anniversary celebration have put there specifically for something.
Yet there is something philosophical about all this. Even people like me who has some heavy moments of extreme cynicism can see something positive in the New Year. The seasons started again, a cycle that returns to the starting point. The writer who wants to start a new chapter, he does so in a new page, white, clean. The man and woman who want to change, they do when they find a significant date to clear all that is past, and start over. 01/01, Jan. 1.
's why I think it's fair to wish today. Much more so today than at Christmas or Easter, or birthdays. Today, because people have an extra push for change, and I really believe that there is a huge need for people to learn to change. My name is Alexander, but my friends call me Ale, and now I want to make wishes.
To you,
not buy that dress because you do not see us, because you're afraid that others will not find you credible in a role where you have not ever seen, because those colors do not Have you ever used them and all would notice the change, but you put that dress dreams of Thee, who dreams to be worthy of that dress, you dream to be someone else just for the chance to wear that dress ( or that pair of glasses or other appropriate haircut, the shoes or higher),
I hope you find the courage to open the cupboard and taking them off the habit which you have never put for fear of wearing it and go along well. Because no one can ever say that you're right, if you're good there.
To you,
you have always been with the usual people with whom you are wrong, you call friends people who actually take advantage of you, or you always take the piss, you dreams that the friendships that you see in the movies because the ones you are not even remotely così appaganti,
a te io auguro di trovare il coraggio di lasciar perdere tutti loro, di iniziare a frequentare nuovi posti, con persone più simili a te, con le persone che ti piacciono e a cui probabilmente tu piaci. Perché le amicizie dei film esistono anche fuori dalla pellicola, e sono anche più fantastiche di come sembrano.
A te,
ragazzo che ami i ragazzi, o ragazza che ami le ragazze, o ragazzo che si sente una ragazza, o ragazza che si sente un ragazzo, che ti sei sempre chiuso in te stesso per paura di far capire agli altri come sei, che ti nascondi per timore del giudizio the other, you feel wrong to you, you who do not agree to this, you would rather die not to feel all this pressure,
I hope you find the strength to express, to face the world in which you found yourself, to let go who does not want you as you are. Because there is no one better than you, and no one can tell you how you should be, or who you love.
To you,
that you loved but your feeling is not reciprocated, you think still that person, you no longer want to get close to someone afraid to try again the same excruciating pain, you say you feel good but actually inside the wound bleeds again,
I hope you understand that you have to go back to love yourself before anyone else; returning to wear those clothes, watch those movies, going out with those people, to understand that memories are only memories, and you have to challenge your memory every second makes you think about that person. You must understand and believe that the seasons are changing, and there will be the best of times, why yes, this I promise you, and I swear that I hold most dear: there will be better times.
To you,
you dream to do this, or be that way, or becoming so, but shake your head by dissolving these hopes because you do not believe that could happen, because maybe you think you have already formed, that we can not change that if we started a journey we should spend only that,
I hope you find the courage to change, learn how to chase your dreams, or to subscribe to that course of participate in this contest or to start the sport or that activity. Why those who study mathematics can be an excellent dancer, who works in a garage can be a very good footballer, e chi fa medicina può anche essere un poeta brillante.
A te,
che hai preso una cotta pazza per questo o quella, e che non vuoi dichiarare i tuoi sentimenti perché senti che non è alla tua portata, perché lui o lei è troppo per te, e che pensi spesso a lui o lei, ma senza dirglielo, a te che esplodi di gioia quando per sbaglio ti sorride, o ti chiede l'ora, o per caso si mette a sedere accanto a te in biblioteca,
a te io auguro di trovare il coraggio per esprimere quello che provi, di dirgli la verità, di dirgli che ti piace. Perché tutti amano essere apprezzati, and is a beautiful thing to hear that someone likes you, especially if that someone is you.
To you,
snub that these wishes be minimized to a mere exercise in style, you believe that everything I wrote is just rhetoric, because in reality everything is really impossible to do, to that you believe that you can not change, that people have only one way to go, and that only the luckiest will be happy,
I hope you change your mind. Why I wrote this is possible, because this is what I wrote that 2010 has taught me, because at the beginning of 2010 I would have needed someone that I hope these things. And now that I realized that you can change and that we can be happy, I hope these things to you.
Ale,
a friend
