Re-cor-dare: as Andrea Pietrangeli says in his book Farmagia, to remember means: to give one's heart again, to give Love. And that is exactly what it is. Let me tell you what happened to me this morning.
Have you ever been woken up by a memory? It happened to me this morning, at 6.57am. It was the strong wind and the rain that, together, took me back 20 and more years. I opened my eyes and said to myself: Silvia, wake up, have breakfast and then go and catch the bus. Same sound of the wind, same pouring rain, same morning darkness and me, under the covers, ready to brave the new day.
Only after two minutes did I realise that the Silvia who was uttering these words was in Berlin and did not have to take any buses (and she is not 17, but 44). So... why this memory?
I started thinking: whatever, the day after tomorrow you go to Italy, you see your parents, you sleep in the same little room...but...no, the feeling I had was different, much much deeper. And I was awake!. I wasn't dreaming.
Little by little I started to put the pieces in order...and I think there is a beautiful explanation for this.
Drink less many will say (well, not bad advice :D), but I have another key. At 17, the cold, the rain, the darkness didn't stop me, Silvia had a goal, a dream, and despite a thousand difficulties Silvia stayed focused on what she wanted.
Feeling as I did twenty years ago, it reminded me to give love back to that determined Silvia, to give confidence to that Silvia frightened by the thousand unknowns of life and the people around her, and to think of how many things Silvia has managed to do in all these years. But what a masterpiece is life, what a masterpiece is Silvia?
And all this stuff came just when it was needed: at a time when I was ready to take a leap of faith, because as Andrea Pietrangeli says, if you don't like it, change it.
And you, when was the last time you re-curated what a wonderful masterpiece you are?