A stencil can say 1000 words

The multitude of mural paintings in Naples is overwhelming. It doesn't really matter if the piece of wall they write and paint upon is part of a historical building or even statue. In spite of the fact that our hotel was placed right in the center of the Historical Area of the city, this attitude towards painting walls was not only present but also thriving over there.

In order to get inside the hotel, you had to go on a narrow side alley, between two old, typical Italian buildings on which not even the light of day managed to get through completely. Though the atmosphere was interesting, especially for someone with a camera in his hands, looking to capture that Neapolitan flavor, the question marks about his own security would pop up fast in the mind.
So the view I had as I would come out of the hotel, either in order to leave or just to have a cigarette while having the breakfast coffee, was the opposite wall of this narrow alley, on which, this stencil stood.
So I had plenty of time analyzing it while having one-two cigarettes and I guess that it somehow applies very well with the spirit of Christmas... or at least it should give us the introspection we need during this day. Because this day it's not about us, it's about the other ones beside us. It is about "give and you shall receive".

I'm not a religious person but I do believe in the sphericty of things. After all that's what the Universe teaches us, each and every single day: that it moves in total chaos based on some rules that make everything be very "round". This can also be scaled down, to history, to society, to the individual person. Things repeat themselves in infinite forms and at the level of our society, we forget to think as a species in the majority of cases, valuing our own individuality more than anything else. Never thinking about the bigger cog that is in motion and we are moving together with it...

Funny thing how we started our species in caves, communicating through cave wall paintings; now, after so many milleania of evolution, after getting painting, as an art, so complex, after inventing photography in order to transmit more information, we stop and stare at a very simple piece of drawing, made on the walls of our modern caves by other fellow humans. And it can say so much with so little...