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I'm free and now I know

I'm free and now I know By Alessandro Ghebreigziabiher I have to look forward and if I do it I can only rejoice. I'm one of those, yes I am. Obliged by history to keep the gaze fixed on the horizon. The past depresses me, the future is everything. But then I think more carefully, perhaps involving the heart in the intimate conversation and I understand that what awaits me owes what has been. I'm free, therefore. Nothing special, but it still moves to say it. It’s good, more than anything else, remembering the reasons, however trivial they might be. I am free because I have a brain of my own. And finally, I avail myself pursuing happiness and dreams that are just mine. I can understand things by choosing which and when. I can afford to make mistakes without feeling old or poorly updated. I can also stop, at any moment, to analyze and measure the world which I come into contact with. I can even remain silent, still, forgotten in the wonderful realm of e...