Logbook Day 11, Jupiter arrives at North Cape
Destination reached together between gratuity, fragility and peace
VITERBO – The wind moved us in every direction, gusts of 50 kilometers per hour. We got out of the cars that we couldn’t see more than 10 meters away, wrapped in fog. Bundled up in our jackets, wrapped in scarves and worried about the hats that were flying off, we looked for each other to be as united as possible.
Arm in arm, by hand, running, we arrived under the North Cape globe without even realizing it, with our voices and our bodies carried by the wind. We looked for each other and found each otheras throughout the trip. Together.
We haven’t seen darkness for 6 days, since our journey moved towards the far north: Denmark, Sweden, Finland and up to Norway… More and more light.
It is with this state of mind that we arrived at the North Cape, with the desire to see the precipice of 300-meter high rocks overlooking the Arctic Ocean. And instead we couldn’t see anything. North Cape didn’t show itself externally… North Cape showed itself… But inside, inside each of us.
This journey has made the masks fall, sometimes increasing the fear, sometimes helping us to melt into an embracein a word, in a look.
It seems impossible to have come this far and done it together. It is us and we are equal and wonderfully different, men and womenboys and young people, who have decided to set out and bet everything on a few very important words: gratuity, fragility and peace. Above all, peace, the one we seek within ourselves before bringing it outside, the one we would like to see return to Europe.
This is why we left, 5000 kilometers agoto which are added the almost 100 thousand steps taken on foot in the cities and in the boundless nature of Scandinavia.
We have adapted to the temperatures, we have seen changing vegetation, flora and fauna, language and traditions. The hours of darkness gave way to the hours of light and we could hide less and less, until we reached the North Cape which for each of us it’s a goal, a restarta journey that was first inside and then outside of us.
No one will forget these days; they won’t Barbarawith her voice always a little over the top and her tantrums when she’s tired; Antonio with his desire to always be the protagonist; Valentina with his red cheeks when he gets embarrassed talking about love; Maklen and his unlikely advice, Franco and his tears of emotion. Brith left without wanting to leavethen he started shooting photos that were portraits, to his traveling companions. It was his way of being there.
Martina he let go of sulks and eyes to the sky and he showed us smiles and glances towards otherseven those most different from her. Keyla had so many curious questions and he infected us with his laughter, because “we bring the sun to every place we go” is his motto. Matilda she was worried about the changes, but she knew how to adapt, putting the group in first place. Pietrothe smallest, was scared precisely for this reason, but he was able to find his space of expression and comes home “bigger”.
The educators, the communicators, the ANAI drivers, the State Police officers, the Presidente di Jupiter Salvatore Regoliprovided the framework and support and took care of this group of young people, all of them special.
We became a single group and it was the caravan that accomplished this feat, to put us in crisis, to bring about change, to make us discover strong, courageous and at the same time fragile.
Do we have the answers to all the questions? Of course not, but we do a new way of listening to ourselves and following the path within us. And “Destinazione Capo Nord” taught us this.
