Lockdown Diaries Nominee#6- I’m too busy for fantasies by Alessio Fino

Imagination, it is unbelievable that something so huge can fit in our head. Its existence would scare any man of science, it’s unlimited, going against any law of thermodynamics, and yet, even scientists could never live without it.
You can’t store it, neither trap it, when it sparks either you make it a reality or it vanishes away. It feels unfair, I would love to grasp and store forever even the tiniest piece of what my imagination creates. When imagination lets you travel with her she expects to be promptly followed and if you don’t, it will run away from you before you could even notice. But if you follow her, she will take you to the wildest destinations, it may be the best gift humans were ever given.

It’s surprising how we need to feel constantly busy on a daily basis, just to feel that we are doing something real, not giving space to our imagination. But closed off by four walls, with little to do because the daily life out there has frozen, one of those rare moments when you don’t feel too busy to observe the world with your naked eyes, not having the need to hide behind the “I’m too busy for that” state of mind. You find yourself in that room you’ve been seeing every day but not properly paying attention to, you notice that small photo you fixed on the wall a long time ago, that small wooden wall your bed is fixed to, of which you can barely see the wood because it has become the envy of the refrigerator door, flooded by pictures of who you are and who you were.

Past times flood upon you, a dangerous combination of past emotions, moments, delusions, and peaks of happiness saturates your brain, until it blows up, skyrocketing you through the roof, flying through skies and fields, always craving to discover what’s ahead, until this dream will carry you.

When you’ll finally touch the ground, or I should say crash on it, getting thrown back in the real world, feeling that bitter taste of emptiness as you realize everything you saw doesn’t really exist, but it would be a lot cooler if it did. As you rest there in that same spot you’ve been idle for hours, you enjoy that mild sweet feeling that journey has left you, also disappointed that others won’t be able to see what you did, no matter how well you explain it. Maybe you would laugh at yourself thinking “Imagine if I was too busy”.

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The above entry has been submitted by Alessio Fino from Torino, Italy. He is an 18-year-old student of Liceo Scientifico Carlo Cattaneo. Kudos to Alessio for this beautiful piece!

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