Emigration

(Drafting sent to a contest)

Travel abroad won't make me taller but it will make me grow, it won't improve my vision but it will sharpen my perception, it won't give me more strength but it will make me more powerful, it won't sculpt my muscles but it will shape the surface of my dreams. Travel abroad will offer me the opportunity to know the risk of facing the doubt and address the thrill of the unknown. Travel abroad will make me move away from old certainties and depart from the usual warmth... But it will also allow me to develop myself unhindered, grow unfettered, live without limits. You are not able to learn when the roads are marked and not able to live when every decision comes down to chance that the time dictates. One, two, three ... Not many, just a few steps needed to take the final one. It's true that the muscle can shake for a moment and the weekness can appear behind every question, but there's no gain without adventure and no movement without steam. Today more than ever, to stay is to stuck. Today more than ever, be satisfied is to surrender to mediocrity. Advance, evolve, leave... A foraign land is and also will be all those things we lack of.