The Sironi Method

Strangely this “pain” and this “return” have in common the desire to finally be authentic in their meaning, two ways to caress loneliness, in a certain sense they are, realistically, two sides of the same coin in a present that would not never leave the past behind with all the lost opportunities!

Could this be the explanation of the enigma, the solution to understand, to understand and to no longer inscrutably interpret the impenetrability of this sad thought?

What if it was a kind of pain that we need every time we resume our existence when we come to terms with our victories, failures, mistakes, right choices or wrong ones, lost loves and never found ones by blaming a unaware and innocent fate or the selfishness of fate to which you have given body and soul? Could nostalgia, or what we think it is, arise from the depths of our soul and remain in those depths forever, leaving us alone even among an incalculable crowd? The answer is yes, inexorably yes, because nostalgia does not need acknowledgments, certificates of esteem, prayers, pleas and miracles, it is the missing piece of the most perfect work of art in history and that work it’s human!

You see her coming from afar silent, insinuating, persuasive, wrapped in that fascination of hers that has inspired poets, writers, artists, men and women since the beginning of time and I am sure she has somehow managed to sneak even into the world of children with their games and entertainment… After all, nostalgia is a metaphorical embrace, it has roots in the past, it is an exclusive of the past that saw us protagonists of our existence, but at the same time it could also be a “sweet disease” whose first symptoms can be seen in the present and only in the present but the bacillus is ancient, lost in time and in it one can be healed or lost forever!

What is certain is that this Nostalgia, the one with a capital n, does not need a prognosis, it does not need doctors and above all there are no drugs to cure it! It is a disease without proven scientific pathology and no one knows its nature, causes, evolution and eventual outcome… It is an unusual ailment that never respects the seasons, an affection mixed with a passion that is unable to find their way home, a humanly universal epidemic that has always reaped “nostalgic victims” in search of happiness!