We all know now that 2020 was a strange, an atypical and – for some of us – a horrifying year. Even though I was pretty certain that the trouble with Covid-19 wouldn’t be over by now (just add at least another 12 months, if not more), I did not have the clarity of mind to foresee so many of the things that did happen, to me as well as to all of us, since March.
But I’m not a poet, a writer, an artist; I’m not like Francesca Melandri. In March 2020, this Italian novelist wrote “A letter to the UK from Italy: this is what we know about your future“, published by The Guardian. Reading it will make you nod your head, not once, not twice, but many times: yes Francesca, that’s exactly what I did or thought…
Even now, when the crisis is far from over, it’s clear that the prediction at the end will turn out to be true:
If we turn our gaze to the more distant future, the future which is unknown both to you and to us too, we can only tell you this: when all of this is over, the world won’t be the same.
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