In these days I often leave London to follow my project in Bedford, a small city in the east midlands of England, a small city full of stories. As sayed in the other post, this project talk about the differents generations of Italians living in the city, i am truly falling in love with those stories, stories of different times and especially different people, extraordinary people. It is a bit like when I listen into my grandfather's story, talking about his past!
On the train to London, I was reading this book, A fortune teller told me, written by Tiziano Terzani. It tell us about the writer's choice on avoiding to take any flight during the 1993, as a fortune teller in Hong Kong suggested him to not to, because in that year he would seriously risk his life. At the begin Terzani was very sceptic, especially for a journalist is not an easy choice, at the same time, he was very moved by this huge change in his life and in fact decided to travel in the hearth of Asia just with car, trains and even animals. At the end he was thrilled by this new experience and literally discovered a new world, meeting different cultures and enjoying more the beauty of Nature.
It is certainly true that when we use airplanes to travel from country to country, we don't realise that we fly over rivers, seas, millions of different cultures...but what important is arrive in the less time possible...that makes us BLIND.
It all can sounds a bit moralistic and irrational but I think nowadays we are more and more less able to take such decisions.
Midlands, England. 2011
