Welcome to unknown

27/06/2022 Nilson Lattari

Someone knocks on the door. I wonder who should disturb me. Takes me out of my unknown comfort zone, where I like to live. I, who is here watching the safe world without surprise, living the adventures of others. People are living adventures in my place. They are learning about distant lands and talking to unknown people. They are there, checking all information that newspaper publishes in their languages, exchanging the true things for lies in accordance with their interests.
I see this unknown and don’t seek to understand it because it’s comfortable. I idealize it inside of my thoughts. It comes from the television and newspapers, and it is only fiction, I know.
Someone knocks on the door again, and my patience is over. But who is there at that time to disturb my silence? I get up from my desk and go toward the door to refuse its visit, however, it has something to say.
In front of me, someone introduces himself and tells me: I am the unknown. You ignored me, and now I come to meet you.
I’m surprised when I see someone without a face, being him or her. No smile, and its voice seems to come from an unknown place to talk to me.
What do you want? Someone who calls themselves unknown comes to my home, knocks on the door, and wants to meet me.
I know you, and don’t you know me? What strange paradox is when you say that you know me and don’t have the extreme curiosity to meet me.
What do you want? You decide to meet me at that time and take me out of my comfortable life to talk to you?
I would like to bring you to the unknown. You will put your feet on strange, colourful lands. You will see clouds running in a place you have never seen before. You will put your hands on waters you despised. You will see smiles and different languages. Even if you don’t understand them, it will seem like a strange conversation using mimes and gestures. You will feel another smell, will enjoy food, your eyes will watch the horizon where the sun sets, and sounds that exist in other places. You will see life on the other side of the bridge. On the other side of the mountains. I’m the curiosity and I come to cure you.
Would I say you welcome? I shouldn’t say why. And after our encounter, there won’t be more unknowns to find.
After all, I need to be brave to face the unknown stretched ahead. And be ready and fill your soul with willpower. Finally, be brave and be the company to end the trip. And know that it will be an unknown to find adventures, like the pages of a book and memories. Living the unknown is making history.
And I came here to bring you to discover things using your eyes, to reflect using your own words. Take off the bubble where you are living like a coward.
You have to see the world through your eyes and not from others. And trying to understand the world through your thoughts, like the world is.