Today I came across a very interesting article published on allday and I decided to republish it here because it impressed me a lot and made me approach the images to one of my favorite TV series: The Walking Dead .
If there is someone among you who does not know what it is, it is time to go and deepen one of the cult series of recent years. I leave you some links to read at the end of my article;)
But let’s get back to us . As I said, today while browsing the news on twitter I came across a very interesting article that showed images of the city of Fukushima after only four years from the nuclear disaster of 2011; the photos impressed me very much. First of all for the strong bond he has with me immediately made me think of The Walking Dead but also subsequently to the link with a new conception of the past which, in my opinion, is starting to take shape in our present.
I remember that when I was little, when I thought about history, facts came to mind so remote that I would have had to go back in time for at least ten years if not more to look for something that would take on a meaning worthy for me to associate the term. “historical “. Today everything is so different, at least for me … I turn back and everything that happened just a month ago is equivalent to almost five years away, while other events that happened two years ago assume ten years and so on ; today when I saw the photos of Fukushima , the disaster came back to my mind but I had the perception that more than ten years had passed …
I still have to work through all this well. So I write this article straight away to want to start a sort of debate with some of you out there, you never know that with someone we can understand each other better about all this … I am perhaps alienating myself so much from reality that I no longer have the perception of time passing? Maybe my long-term memory is starting to fade? I do not know. Some argue that at some point in your life you begin to skim more everything that happens around you to keep only the essential; but all this almost starts to scare me …
Now for sure you have wondered why I mentioned The Walking Dead in the article, it’s simple: most of the photos that I will post below have reminded me to a crazy level many scenes from the show. Desolation, moments, the world that stops, materialism that is falling apart, possession, property, everyday life, in short, everything that seems so normal to us suddenly becomes nothing. This is the association that I made between the two events even if on the one hand we have a real and lived tragedy and on the other a show that tells a hypothetical reality that we could live in the next decades …
On the other hand, there is another great reflection that came to my mind when comparing these two topics: every day we spend our time chasing materialism and the most extreme consumerism and we never realize that despite everything we can afford to buy, all this will always represent only a small infinite part of everything that the world and the universe have to offer us and that is why we often find ourselves then having to remain attached to everything, in order not to lose ourselves …
The moral of my speech is hidden in this sentence: know yourself and learn to live in solitude, then you will be ready to face even what seemed impossible until then …
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