Tempo di lettura: 9 minutiToxic people come into our lives with all their traumas, insecurities, beliefs, and leave us in a state of depression, anxiety, stress, lack of self-esteem, to the point where we doubt our own mental health. By the time we realise it, if we realise it at all, we are already pretty battered. Friends, family members, colleagues: we can meet toxic people in any context, have had relationships with them for a lifetime or have only known them recently. A few […]
Tempo di lettura: 4 minutiAll right, here we go again. My last flight was in March 2020. Then life moved online, and my travels between Italy and Bavaria were by car. I had no problem experiencing what was fancy called ‘SOCIAL distancing’ but which in fact turned out to be just that: the physical distance, instead of giving rise to new forms of empathy in this society already severely affected by the chronic indifference syndrome, only amplified the existing. Those who were lonely remained […]
Tempo di lettura: 3 minutiWhen I was a child, I was afraid of deep water. I used to swim on the shoreline, where I would wait for the waves to come and go, leaving me safe there, under the watchful gaze of my parents. It was only with them that I ventured a little further, both my small hands clasped between theirs. Squeezed until they hurt. As I grew up I learnt to swim, but for years I could not stay still and keep […]
