The age of paranoia
You wake up after one hour sleeping in a plane: you need to pee. In the small and ugly toilet someone wrote “I love you”. And you’d like to write just next to it “No need to love! Discover freedom today”: You don’t need to love anyone to smile. Huh, that sounds like a giant lie. But it makes you feel stronger. And you are in the age of paranoia. You won’t get married with nobody and anything, you won’t even get married with your current dreams. Like Alexander Supertramp from Into the wild, you only want to marry freedom. And you wonder if freedom sometimes also sucks.
There’s something which makes you feel strange. Do people change? Will you be able to feel something in the future? Maybe you’re just from the group of people who prefers to say “not” using lips, while the rest of the body wants to find an excuse to answer “yes”. In your imagination there’s someone living far away from you, both phisically or mentally. On Australia, Mexico or just 100km away from your town. And in your imagination, that person wants to get closer. You dream on how would you act next to that person. But your mind changes too fast to make any step. The age of paranoia rocks.
And you knew that when you decided to start a diary. The first page was full of wishes. Dreams and countries to conquer. Moons to visit and giants to beat. That page acts as a mirror to your heart “On this path -let’s call it “life”- I will find the perfect person to me. Not sure about if that person will be a boy or a girl. Maybe a nice dog instead. But I won’t stop until finding that perfect smile to me”. The next 200 pages are full of new dreams to conquer. New ideas filling the pages that were thought to explain the conquers and successes instead of new dreams to conquer. There are no pages writing about the successes. Just new things to wait for.
The last page of your diary acts as a mirror of your reality “I’ve found 9 perfect persons to me. I’ve had 390 different dreams. 11.000 moments where I’d like to come back and act different. Because I ran away from those 9, those 390 and those 11.000. Now I wonder if it could had been easier if I just could go back and change, let’s say, only 10 different minutes of this few months writing the diary. Go back and find that person that wanted to give me 2 or 3 things, but very often, combined with surprises and smiles. He was not able to offer the 10.000 new dreams I needed. And now, my big dreams are those 3 things, but there are no extra pages on my diary to write, with all the good and all the bad he had.” But that person left the country, leaving a nice message on his last known address “I don’t care if you don’t care“. He’s still on the age of paranoia.
That last page of your diary was wrote while listening that spanish rock group. Just one song, “Malos pensamientos”. Una pieda del destino. The age of paranoia ended to you.


