Clouds invite to speculate or simply, following their ethereal shapes our thoughts try to fly a little higher too.

Human mind is the more complex thing we know, and we understand it only in intuitive way, since the complexity is very hard to measure.

In spite of the complexity of our mind, we – human beings – are superficial by nature. Once Paul Valéry wrote that depth is not deeper than skin.

With nowadays technologies we can theoretically meet and known more people and communicate with them.

But in reality it’s not a very relevant change, which doesn’t change at any deep level our way to interact and our own essence.

We keep on sharing the relationships which really matter for each of us, like love or real friendship (we use the word “friends” too superficially and too quickly and it tends to lose its real meaning to become only a synonymous of “general acquaintance”) with a very limited and reduced circle of people.

A couple of hours ago I spoke to my best friend (technology has given us the precious opportunity to keep in touch with our dear ones even when they are very far from us) and just for fun I asked him to guess what I had on my desk, on the right, excluding all the usual objects which invade my desk normally.

Of course there was not any web camera on (I don’t like web cameras).

I heard him giggling...

“ So let me see, for you it’s about 4 pm, how is the weather there? Hot?”

“ Very...”

“Then you have your favourite big glass which you stole, oopps, you took from a Pub in London and it’s full of lime juice, a little of mint syrup, and a lot of sparkling mineral water and, I presume, three or four ice cubes, because you like the noise they make against the side of the glass”.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.