Vogue Italiaさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Vogue ItaliaInstagram)「Nothing will ever be the same again. Adults keep saying this, but children are the ones who will have to live in this “after” that won’t be like before, and in their imagination the future is happening right now. What’s it like to grow up in a world that’s wrought with anxiety and seems to be falling apart, between health emergencies and climate crises? What will children remember of these difficult times? We need an honest and encouraging answer, the voice of a motivator who can speak to the weak with compassion and hope. We need the thinking of a true humanist. The novelist George Saunders is just the person. He recently wrote a letter to his students at Syracuse University urging them to take a bold look at this unstable planet, which he compares to “a sleeping tiger” with us living on its back like tiny Barbies and Kens. “I think it’s important to remember that a terrible event like this is not new – it’s just new to us. Those of us now living on earth have been, generally speaking, fortunate and prosperous. But reality also includes the occasional cataclysm. So we might say that, as long as we tell our children the truth about what’s happening, it’ll be good for them, in the long run, to know what life really is like; to know, from the start, that our existence contains both beauty and fear and is terribly (wonderfully) conditional. That’s what all of those witches, monsters and cruel step-parents in fairy tales were about: an inoculation in the mayhem of real life.” Saunders knows how to delve into our darkest hours while always shedding promising brightness. “When I’m feeling discouraged, I think of it this way: life doesn’t have to be any one way for it to be beautiful. Even a reduced life has beauty in it. The life-force is beautiful, I guess I’d say.” Read the full text by Michele Neri in the June Issue of Vogue Italia and via link in bio. Photo by Tim Walker, Vogue Italia November 2018. #OurNewWorld」6月13日 20時57分