cheers to the dreamer
Hello to everyone who’s not going to read this story right away.
My name is Viola, like the flower. Or to be more precise, like the color and the instrument.
I have always been really proud of my name, because I have always thought that somehow it matched perfectly with my love for art and desire to be an artist; music, nature, painting.
Since I remember, stories have always been part of my life, every kind of them. When I was little, I wrote about beans’ thieves and hidden cities entirely made of books, lost reigns built on clouds and knowledge seas. I guess my purpose at seven years old was to make people dream with my stories and it never went away.
At eleven years old, I finally understood what completely owned my heart: cinema. Many people asked me why my main dream was to become a film director and why an eleven year old girl would even know what to do in her life right away, without any doubt. “You will change your mind, nobody had ever had clear ideas when young and naive” they used to say to me. But here I am, eighteen years old, still the same dream.
I never quite know what to say when someone asks me why I love cinema. It is more complicated that it seems to explaine the right reason. I know that this may sound a little cheesy, but my life really wouldn’t be right without it. I have learnt a lot from every single film that I have watched, from every festival that I have been to even if for a little time and from every person that works in this industry, from actors to film directors, producers and composers. I have met talented young actors and known their struggles, teachers and arrogant dreamers. Everything I am is related to cinema and films. The stories that have always been part of my life since I was a little girl never left me, they became real and started to have a real meaning.
What do I hope to achieve in life? What do I really want? My long-life dream is still there, clear in my mind. What I do not have is hope. I need to achieve my dream, I need to find hope.
I hope that this blog will help me find what I need and that in the end I will end up doing something that will make me happy.
I got to go somewhere somehow after all, right?
