Divenire

Hey you,

I like words

And my word of the day is Divenire

There is a quite accomplished Italian musician named Ludovico Einaudi that created a song titled our lovely little word of today. The word translated from Italian means "to become", with a bit of nuance behind it. It represents a longing, a passion for the future that you intend to make reality.

Alongside being a very elegant sounding word, and the piano rendition also very beautiful, it connected to me for reasons I have yet to understand.

For many of us, we wonder what our lives will be, and what we want our lives to be. Maybe one day, you are out buying groceries, or walk past someone on the street, or lose yourself staring at something hilarious that only you understand.

In those moments, did you...want that?

Stay with me here.

Did you want to buy groceries? Did you want to trip halfway up the stairs? Did you want to be the only person in a room of 500 laughing at something no one else can see? And you accidentally snorted?

Probably not

But we don't get to really choose those moments...do we?

Some people say that our lives are only what we make of them, and you have to become the person you want to be. Divenire

And on a grand scale, yes. You have to work to keep a job, you have to practice to play music, you have to dream to achieve. Divenire

But to me...*Divenire* is misleading, because it speaks to becoming something we are not. Something we have yet to achieve.

What I'm trying to say, is that you already are something, you already became.

I'm not asking you to stop dreaming, stop growing. But if you think you must become something else, what part of you is being lost, to become something new?