About life, about ages ... There is a time when we start thinking about the past. It comes unexpectedly and imperceptibly!
It doesn't happen when we are young, but by the age we begin to think more and more of the past. Maybe we are afraid of forgetting it.
Recently, since I'm a temporary resident of a new city, I'm more attracted to a house next to which I walk every day. At first I didn't realize why I was attracted to the old and degraded house.
I suddenly understood ... I think this house looks like me, metaphorically speaking.
I'd like to ask you a question. Did you happen to identify yourself with other people, characters? To me, yes!
It has happened to me in my childhood when I identify myself with the main characters of all the books I read. I liked to imagine that I was the good and brave character. Later, in adolescence I chose the film characters. There were many but only one specially.
The main character in Blow-up. A fashion photographer. The film was made in the 1960s by Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni and the action takes place in London.
The photographer in the movie fascinated me. That's why I started to learn about photography. I tried to imitate the way she was dressed: white jeans and velvet coat. It was a person who haunted me for many years.
With maturity I gave up this kind of likeness to other characters. The mature life and many obligations prevented the dream.
Aging changes our way of being. Old age is not a blessing. Whoever says old-age is beautiful isn't exactly right. It is said that the elders are beginning to think like children. That's not so bad, I like!
I think I'm getting closer to this stage of my life. So I don't know how it happened to think I'm like a house. Like this house.
A house that looks like it is old but it was beautiful in the past. Now, I don't mean by comparison that I was a nice man, I wanted to say just because I was young and youth is always beautiful.
Now I feel the same as this house. As you can see, the plaster degrades ... so does my skin. Time dig deep into our body...iron rust and bones ache!
This big house, still with beautiful portions, has the power to stay right, but the first bigger earthquake will put it down. That's what's gonna happen to me.
Maybe this comparison seems to be forced, I just wanted to say that I'm getting older and I feel more and more this ...
For SAM, Something About Me every Saturday: #sam-saturday.
