I can say that I’m very well-off. I’m studying with great success, enjoying a part-time work, maintain stable relationships with basically everyone I know, and try to keep my morality in check, albeit being a generally non-religious person.  But I don’t think it’s viable to say that I’ve fulfilled any particular purpose in my life, or that I have a clear definition of what I’m supposed to do to reach it. The only one I do have is pretty to-the-point but vague at the same time – live. In order to be able to review my life and analyze, dissect and pit my ambitions against my experience, I’ll have to go through life in its entirety. I mean, I’m just eighteen – nineteen in a few months – even if I did lack the decency and actually write that I have “reached my lifelong goal”, it’d be a terrible joke. I am pleased with how I’ve been going so far, and can only hope and do everything I can in order to maintain the pace.

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I have a person who I love more than anything else in the world; two loving parents who supported and guided me all the way through life, and still continue doing so; friends and relatives who, albeit being sometimes irritating or even more so, are like a second family to me; and If I’d had to choose from all of them, I’d muse for quite a while… before saying that nobody beats my grandfather. He was my idol during youth, and I looked up to him at every opportunity. He was a physician, and a renowned professor at that, but aside from his successes in career few people valued his light-hearted, somehow also a caring attitude towards all things. He supported me in some pretty personal matters I’d rather not write here, but he definitely showed me how to develop myself in the long run.

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Oh, I’d definitely love to see Italy; it embodies so much cultural richness in itself that it’s just amazing. I’m actually planning to visit Venice someday and somehow, but I always think later that what, you’ll visit Venice, ride a gondola, gaze at marvelous cathedrals, but then? I’ll just… return? I feel as if I need to simply move there in order to not miss every opportunity the various cities provide. I mean, how can one visit Venice without first going to Rome, or vice-versa (add any other cities of Italy in that sentence)?  I’ve also read and plain researched a lot on the people there, even picked up a few lines in Italian, and I’d simply love to mix in with the crowds and get to know the culture and communities more closely. I guess visiting the Coliseum might hold equal preference, but hey, I’d get the most out of my stay anyway.