Keep on chasing down that rainbow

You’ll never know what you might find

Back in April 2018, while in Belgium, I was on the verge of signing with King’s College; at the very last moment, I received an email from Sciences Po and my life took the highway that brought me to France, first, and later to Shanghai.

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In those five months in Asia I had the privilege to visit Japan and South Korea, two incredible countries in which I felt extraordinary emotions; and during the year in Paris I got to travel all around France, from Strasbourg to Lyon, from Normandie to Bourgogne.

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Now I’m about to finish my double MA, the thesis is done, incredibly I have a UN internship in my pocket… and boom, global pandemic.

Will this be the pivotal public event in our life, like the world wars for our grandparents, that will shake everything? Nobody can say that, at this stage, but lots of hints point in this direction. The virus will change our way of socializing, travels around the world won’t be the same as last year, the economy will suffer as maybe never before.

But still…

I won’t stop dreaming about a better future. I won’t stop working hard to reach my goals. I won’t stop planning new, exciting trips to the four corners of the world.

We must not let the pandemic take the best part of our existence.

Perhaps the most important thing
Is that it’s blind to subject and king.
We’re all in this one, all together –
Truly birds of the same feather.
I’m hopeful that when we emerge
Compassion will see a lasting surge.

I.H.