MAVILIO

I can't see you but I know you are here.

It is the famous line that Peter Falk says to Bruno Ganz in the movie "Wings of Desire", a movie by Wim Wenders.

This line describes the condition when one wants another person to be aware of the good of life.

Also, with the eyes of today, it seems to me that this line describes perfectly the situation when one is speaking into the blind, when one knows that he is watched and followed, but cannot know when, from where and by who..

Are followers like invisible angels?.

This is just the condition of authors of any time, and nowadays it is the condition of anyone involved in blogging, just to say.

In the analogue era I used to be a prolific creator, and so I have been for the first 20 or so years of the digital era, too.

But then something made me more fearful, more reticent, less creative and less courageous.

I believe it is the result of the drunkenness of the wild social networking of the last ten years, that took me by the feet and slowly forced me to float lower and lower, to connect and remain connected with the people of my past, of my youth, of my family, of times and places that of course I personally do not regret but that cannot be of any inspiration and purpose to evolve and speak in the name of my future self.

It has been hard to really realize that my present was full of its own past and if all its ghosts.

The only way out for me is to turn my gaze to the empty space of fantasy, and really speak, write, create for imaginary people. Just as kids do by default, and as myself used to do until the age of 35, I guess.

I know this is the word of a drunk guy just sobering up, but if you are experiencing some kind of creative block, force yourself to broadcast into the blind.