Who do you want to be?

It's the 2nd of January, so it's the moment to think about New Year's resolutions.

Before a gallons of ideas submerged your minds, I would like to tell you where the name "January" comes from.

Ianus by the Dutch artist Jacobus Harrewyn (1698) 

 

Ianus (Janus in English) was the Latin god of transitions, time and beginnings. He had two faces, so he could look at the past and the future, the inside and the outside (he was also the god of doors and passages) at the same time. He was considered the Creator god overall and, due to this, in his opera "De Civitate Dei", Saint Augustine wrote that "ad Ianum pertinent initia factorum" (which means that this god acted in matter of things concerning starts). 

 

Going back to the New Year’s resolutions, the first thing I would like to do is taking good marks in my university exams, especially in the Japanese ones.

 

Then I would like to visit a city abroad, maybe Istanbul or London or Berlin. I already went to London and Berlin, but I have loved them a lot, so it will be wonderful to see how they’ve changed across the years. I saw some photos of Istanbul and I think it’s worth giving it a chance, though.

 

The famous Tower of London

I also hope to keep in contact with my friends, to meet them as many times as possible and to live new adventures with them.
 

I wish I could go to some exhibitions at Palazzo Reale in Milan (last year I saw the Chagall’s exhibit with my best friend Luisa), watch all the Star Wars saga and convince my mum to plant a fruit tree.

 
Soon I'll buy a little wooden house for wild birds to feed them during the winter. Yesterday morning and even today, after lunch, there was a great tit on the iron grating of my window. 

  

  

I would like to be happier or, at least, to bear difficulties and problems with strength and faith.

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger" 
Friedrich Nietzsche

 

Best wishes

 

Yours,Silvia