I can’t believe it’s been almost four years since I last picked up a pencil to do some creative drawing. And I’m even more surprised after all this time I can still perfectly at ease with it in my hands.
Not that I have ignored his existence since, I used to jot down lyrics, take school notes, draw my assignments, write the shopping list, etc … but somewhere along the way, I’m not sure how, a certain person had talked me out of my dreams. I’ll probably never be a genius at drawing, no, I’ve daydreamed about it, but I also know quite clearly the extent of my talent.

While I was doing some winter cleaning (anything to excuse my not tackling my university project), I decided to work through the chaotic piles of paper lying around my room and salvaged from the smothering dust some incredibly old comics and stories I had completely forgotten about.
Suddenly all the memories rushed back like a tide wave and I HAD to get down to drawing. For the first time in a long while, I feared the blank page, realizing all I’d done in the last years were no more than worthless doodles on my notebook when lessons got too boring.
But I gulped, took a deep breath and traced the first, trembling line.

And with that, everything came back to me: the passion, the dreamy happy feeling, the heartwarming sensation of something being born from me, which could be born by no other …
I’ve misplaced my fairy eyes many times along the way, but now I am sure of one thing, I’ll never really lose them.


Some people wonder at the change I’ve undergone recently, how I can smile sincerely even in the darkest moments, how nothing anybody does against me really appears to harm me any longer. They ask me how is it I seem so at peace, and they find it difficult to believe it only took one phrase to lift me out of the gloom.
“Don’t let anybody take your tranquility away, nobody is worth it,” he said, and there are no words to say how grateful I am to him, and how much I admire him. We are both only in our twenties, yet it seems we’ve found our piece of mind, of sorts.
I don’t know if it will last, but I know I want to savor this period to its fullest.

I love how I feel, I love what I do, in my serenity I reclaimed the things that keep me going and keep me happy, and I can’t think of any better way to live than doing the things you love most with the same passion of the day we first discovered them.


Grazie Alessandro, questo è per te!