Lentitudine

I alert you, if you look in any dictionary, the word "lentitudine" does not exist!

It’s a word I invented and it is composed of the following concepts: "lento", which means slow, and "beatitudine", or bliss.

For me Lentitudine is the pure enjoyment of slow time.

In Calabria time is not measured linearly, but through intensity of the moment (Quoting De Crescenzo). For things to be done it takes longer than in other places, but often the additional time used is due to the quality of the relationships you build for them to occur.

In “El país más feliz del mundo”, Andres Zepeda, within the context of Guatemala, describes how the distance between fast or slow paced time is one of the main unbridgeable elements of the disparity in between rural and urban areas of the same country. I am wondering if the same principle applies to Italy in its disparity between North and South. Progress is made of efficiency, and efficiency is measured based on time. What if instead of efficient progress we care more about wellbeing? Does intense time matter more than linear time?

I still remember when I was a child, in my grandpa's house at the end of the day, people used to come and sit in the garden. The evenings usually started off with a few people in a small circle, and little by little more people joined with a chair of their own and the circle became bigger and bigger. It was wonderful.

I feel that this is something we have lost in today's world, dedicating time to developing real connections, to look in each other's eyes and listen to the told and untold words. The shared moments that make community.

#lentitudine #lento #beatitudine