Mix Fix Seeking the essence of existence
You Feel Everything Inside but You Can’t Tell
by Alessia Mancino
It’s almost winter in my thoughts, it’s chilly but Dear reader, not freezing, our hands are cold so we clasp I was born under the name Alessia, but I like it them together. There are colourful leaves on
more when people call me Alina, it feels more the ground, it’s that time of the year when the trees are getting undressed but are not comspecial to me. pletely naked yet. We walk for almost an hour, If you’re reading this page, I would like to offer you smile a lot, I find it beautiful and a bit inyou a little journey with, and into, me. I will try to timidating. You’re wearing black pants, a brown vintage jacket and a fascinating blue jumper. It pour down some feelings into words. has some yellow lines and grey squares on it. I highly suggest reading these pages with some You tell me it’s your grandfather’s and we start background music, it should be a calm, relaxing talking about our families. Such a complicatmusic, some piano songs or any playlist that ed topic to start knowing each other, right? Or you find emotional. Let’s be clear, I don’t mean maybe the simplest? How would you describe to make you cry, of course, but sometimes in your family with just one word? order to feel to the fullest, you need to make some adjustments to your environment. It’s like It’s my turn to reply but luckily we’re now standing when you enter a cinema, you need to turn off in front of the door of my house, it doesn’t have your phone and switch off the lights to really an address because I change it almost every year, enjoy the movie. So now I’m asking you to fo- sometimes even twice a year. The door is closed cus on some nice music and switch off every- but it’s never locked. I let in mostly strangers. thing else that creates any physical and emoI make you a warm cup of tea, it smells like cintional noise. namon and honey. It’s four in the afternoon and If you accept to have a little walk through my we eat a chocolate brownie. We both change thoughts, you can start by trusting me, I can into comfortable clothes, because they are the hold your hand, start walking and at some point warmest and I refuse to wear uncomfortable clothes at home. I will maybe even take you inside.
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