I do not like hospitals.
I often think I'd rather keep the disease rather than entering it.
fact is that today we are joined.
aseptic environment, dull, cubical, almost hateful. Lines of people requiring health. Signatures on signatures, stamps, taxes shall exercise their right to health. And there I was, with my coupon in hand, to queue.
I look around: the walls of prints reproducing paintings by Kandinsky. Hanging on the wall yellowish, without the colors, volumes, sizes of the original, do not tell me anything.
I observe them anyway.
In a see a human profile: outside of it straight lines, broken geometry. In spirals, circles, lines indefinitely. The mind.
As my unhealthy habit, I begin to observe the people around me. Anonymous faces, in most cases. Just position your eyes on them feel hunted, observed, just staring at you in the eye in turn, how does an animal at night with the headlights of a car.
They are afraid of me? They look at me almost with surprise, who knows what I want from them? I am astonished, amazed. I look at them!
Quickly look away.
But not all reciprocate my indiscreet glances.
Curiously, I have left the scene was perhaps most impressed that one of the saddest cases.
An elderly, in wheelchairs, if not completely. Wait for the ticket, he, along with another man that causes him (the son will be? Nephew? Simply a family friend?). He grumbles and starts to attack button with a lady nearby.
smiled.
You are not annoyed, in fact, talking amiably with the old man, who says: "Well, I'm young, look, I do not even wrinkles ..."
And behind him, the friend laughs and says: "Well, there is a strong Piero!"
...
Here, this second draft from the past ends here ... the feelings are not the same, of course ... I can try to rebuild, though. Why do I set this time?
I do not know why. Maybe I was tenderness, perhaps impressed me the love that this man showed towards the elderly.
The only interpretation I can do will do it with my current mood .. that scene struck me because, at that time, quell'anziano gentleman was really young. And I will, now, I feel, I do not know why, old man.
