Try to travel, otherwise
you may become introspective,
and you may end up believing
that your skin is the only one
to be right, that your language
is the most romantic
and that you were the first
to be the first.
Travel, because if you don't travel
your thoughts won't be strengthened, won't get filled with ideas.
Your dreams will be born with fragile legs and then you end up believing in tv-shows, and in those who invent enemies that fit perfectly with your nightmares
to make you live in terror.
Travel, because travel teaches you
to say good morning to everyone
regardless of which sun we come from.
Travel, because travel teaches you
to say goodnight to everyone
regardless of the darkness
that we carry inside
Travel, because traveling teaches you to resist, not to depend,
to accept others, not just for who they are but also for what they can never be.
To know what we are capable of,
to feel part of a family beyond borders, beyond traditions and culture. Traveling teaches us to be beyond.
Travel, otherwise you end up believing that you are made only for a panorama and instead inside you
there are wonderful landscapes
still to visit.
- Gio Evan, poet and songwriter.
Translated from Italian.