Our shadow

Shadows play making fun of us! They are never sticky to the truth. They lengthen and shorten us following the inclination of the sun.

When I was a child, I liked to invent stories about these bizarre plays of light; therefore there was the lady with the legs long up to the sky; the rabbit and the dove; and unfortunately also the ghost and the cheese. But I would like to tell you the anecdote of this last story, otherwise I could seriously jeopardize the reputation of my strong imagination.

I was the cheese when, in an unsuspected afternoon, I started running like crazy in the countryside, convinced that someone was chasing me. Yes, I was being chased, but by a ghost… my shadow. If I could, I would have smeared on the ground with shame, and here is the nickname “little cheese”. But the funniest thing was, the reaction of some passers-by, who hearing my screams, started running in turn.

The shadows are really spiteful… that’s why we sometimes fear them, especially ours. Ok, I think that’s exactly what happened to me on that occasion in the countryside, I was afraid of my own shadow, but the reaction of passers-by is still not clear to me.

Think if the shadows could also represent our emotions… well, an amazing show would come out, a bit like what the sun does with nature, before giving way to the moon… it always leaves us speechless.

In any case, I am satisfied with the figures and I still play with them today, but I no longer fear my dark side, at most I turn to check that there really isn’t a ghost! You never want to miss a chat and a sandwich.

Here, after that… goodbye reputation! Forgive me I did not resist.