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Social animals with a need of alone time
Human beings are social animals, said Aristotle. Others said that we come to the world and die alone. Some teenagers feel alone even at a party, surrounded by people. Others hate silence, cannot stay by themselves, and fill any type of ‘void’ with sound, noise, people, distractions, activities. An interesting kind of social animal, the […]
MoreWhen teenagers didn’t exist
I am watching a TV show taking place in the year 50s in Italy, L’amica geniale, based on the book by Elena Ferrante, and I was reminded that my generation in Italy was maybe the first one lucky enough to experience a smooth transition between childhood and adulthood. Think about clothes and shoes. Doctor Martens […]
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A second chance at love
My mom would have been 75 yesterday. I will never know what it means to have a mom as an adult. Someone who still takes care of you but with whom you can have an adult to adult conversation. Someone who knows you since the very beginning and saw you every small change you have […]
MoreRainy weekend reads
Are Mexican avocados the world’s new conflict commodity? The ‘ex-closeted gay jihadist’ bringing meditation to Jakarta US states move to stop prisons charging inmates for reading and video calls The Libyan conflict explained What Europe can do in Iran Les violences policières sont le reflet d’un échec
MoreMy youth is fading away and so is consumerism
I saw my cousin’s daughter during the holiday. She is 14 and she loves shopping. Nothing unusual, except that it made me think that my youth finished at the same time as careless shopping did. I guess I can say I was lucky, I was able to ‘enjoy’ consumerism as long as it could last. […]
MoreThe fantasies that TV shows sell us
I am aware that the families that we see on screen don’t exist. Mine is farther than those ideal ones than some others – still, they don’t exist. However, they are not unreal just because they are romanticised, but also, among other things, because how they deal with conflicts is unreal. The conflicts that arise […]
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Blabbering of a millennial 