The Passing.

Life... people... experiences... places...

How many times throughout your life you felt like you cannot live without someone or something?...

And how many times you did?

How many times you just passed by the one you loved or by your good old friend? How

many times you left them behind... never looking back?

You see... everything passes. Everything. And Everyone. Love... people... memories... feelings... relationships... jobs... life passes... and it will always be like this.

No matter how hard you cling to them... no matter how much time and energy you’ve invested there... It will all go away… someday.

Someone once told me... “Never attach to anything”... Well... Does it mean you have to go through life senseless... blind and cold and distant? Is that a life?!? Is that kind of person a human being?

No. You have to love hard. You have to give everything you’ve got. In that very moment…you have to attach yourself so hard to it… until you’ll feel you cannot breathe without it... Even if you know one day you’re going to be painfully plucked from it...

You have to throw yourself from the highest window of the faith... even if you know you’ll definitely fall to the ground.

That’s basic physics... the gravitational force of life will always pull you off... You cannot stay too much in one place… You’ll have to move. Move on... and on... Even if you don’t want to... Even if it’s hard to let go... to start again... and again... You just have to do it. When God says you’re ready... you are. There’s no question about it. You’ll have to get up and walk away from relationships, from people, from friends, from family, from jobs, from places, from memories, from bad habits or just from… the “old you” that must be renewed.

And when that time comes... you’ll feel it. You’ll feel ready. Ready to go beyond your wildest dreams and expectations... ready to jump over that fence... ready to fly with wings of fire towards the infinite future that lies ahead.

I know it’s hard. It gets harder and harder with time... At 15s you want to change the world. At 20s you want to conquer the world. And at 30s you try to create your own world. And of course you’re tired... that sparkling energy from your eyes fades away little by little... that lioness heart is racing slower and slower... and that body becomes a battlefield day by day.

I mean it must be the humanity’s universal curse... When you’re young you have all these grand stupid ideas, tremendous energy and the power to make them all a reality... But in that time you only wish for stupid things, childish things that don’t really matter... you have no idea what you need so you’re

wasting all of your youth...

And when you’re getting older you know exactly how to accomplish everything you want... you perfectly realize what is important in life... but you lack that energy and that mental and physical strength. So you’re just living with those dreams right in front of you...

I mean come on... this is the biggest irony of

all... Right? :)

But everything passes. The good passes and the bad. The rainfall and the snowfall. The days and the nights and the months and the years... everything passes. We’re all here just passengers... through our lives... through others lives... Below the Heaven... on our journey here on Earth and above Hell. We are all... just... passing.

From here to there. From now to then.

We forget everything.

We forget the faces of our loved ones... We forget the smell of the pie...

We forget our special jacket... and that food we like...

We forget our favorite place and that epic movie we saw...

We forget our teachers... we forget the wisdom they taught us...

We forget all the sunsets and the perfume of jasmine...

We forget our Christmas presents and our birthday parties...

We forget the swim in the sea and the run in the forest...

We forget the first kiss and the first loving touch... that night we ran away... and the biggest of lies...

We forget our pretty dolls and our plastic little soldiers...

We forget the pain and the laughter... we forget the smiles and the tears...

And all the dark coffees and the glasses of wine...

We forget the loves of our lives... and the wildest sex nights... and the jealousy fights and the rage and the screams...

We forget all our doubts and the questions within...

We forget the sound of the birds and the blue of the sky...

We forget the art that we saw and the passion inside...

We forget our parents... we forget our homes... we forget our brothers and sisters... we forget our world.

We forget that song from the radio and that guy from the bar...

We forget that poem we wrote and the keys from the car.

Eventually... We forget everything.

Because everything passes away from here to there and from now to then.

Time makes them all beautiful... Memories mostly make us smile. Pieces of remembrance... some old images in black and white... and some dusty pages with words. This is all that stays... after me... after you... after us. The darkness of the oblivion... swallows everything in the end.

But we just have to love every moment of our lives. We have to worship every single human being that touches our hearts. We have to feel everything so deeply until we’ll become one... We have to love every summer and spring and winter and fall... even if we know they’ll pass.

We have to... give ourselves entirely... living it all... experiencing all there is. Sure… everything will pass... but we can pass with it or we can stay and watch how it all... passes away…