It was a bright Monday morning in Italy. The sun was up and brightly shining during the last few days of summer; streets started to blossom and liven up as working hours were about to begin and people were rushing out of their homes to leave for their workplaces and once bright young kids were seen lazily and groggily waiting for their school buses.
Adelaide Cecilia, a young women at the ripening age of 25 had just arrived at her new apartment in Amalfi, Campania. She unlocked the door to her studio apartment and entered in with her suitcase which was her only luggage. Adelaide went into her apartment, locked the door behind her and without thinking twice she drops her suitcase at the doorway and heads to the first door she sees down the hallway hoping for it to be the bedroom, which to her luck was indeed the bedroom. Eyes showing evident lack of sleep, Adelaide falls on her mattress without caring about her uncomfortable skinny jeans and leather jacket. She brought her body closer to herself and curled herself on her mattress.
As she blankly stared at the cupboard she could feel tears forming in her eyes. She tried hard, real, real hard to keep them in but even before she could comfort or console herself they fell, travelling down her pale cheeks. She cried a faint sob before recalling the events of her past week. She felt horrible, heart-broken, exhausted and most of all emotionally drained. She wanted to take a bath and move on as soon as it was possible for her, but she felt as though something extremely heavy was weighing down on her and keeping her hooked to the bed. She slowly raised her head to finally check and understand her surroundings. The room was dark, not as dark as she wanted it to be, but the thick curtains were doing their job of keeping the sunlight off and away from her face for which she was extremely grateful.
Adelaide wanted to desperately divert her mind from her present state of mind and the events embedded and replaying in it. She let out a small sigh and closed her eyes. She thought to herself "Its time for some positivity Adel. In roughly 24 hours you are going to have so much to do, so many things to take care of and most importantly there is going to be a huge responsibility on you. Well maybe not as huge as I am making it sound but well the fact that there is responsibility does not change. Now, just like papa used to say, inhale; exhale; slowly open your eyes and change your train of thoughts."
Adelaide followed the words in her mind and slowly opened her hazel brown eyes. She took a deep breath in and let it out shakily. She knew how weak her inner self had gotten and so she decided to lean towards her actual voice, she thought that by speaking aloud to herself she could control the words her inner-self spoke. She started speaking to herself, aloud, in order to organize herself and plan, for the future.
She started off sarcastically, just like how she loved to compose herself. "So if I want to start with my life would it not require me setting my arse away from the bed?" She scoffed at how dead she sounded and quickly decided to leave her bed. Slowly and lazily she sat up and stretched. "Ah, a good stretch to start a new day in a new town! Its odd how I am being so cringe-y with myself."
Adelaide quickly felt it, her positivity was just not coming back to her soon and so decided to leave her bed finally, and proceeded to open the curtains to let some sunlight in. As she opened the curtains she realized just how much the sunlight entering through the glass hurt her eyes while she shut her eyes close almost instantaneously. Squinting her eyes before slowly opening it she understood what was missing in her life. She understood it the moment she saw the bright beautiful sky in all its glory, with fluffy white clouds moving and birds freely and happily soaring in the sky while chirping.
It was funny how all she needed in her life was brighter days. Days of joy or simply happiness and maybe a little meaning.