There is an old debate that returns from time to time: whether one must live inside a reality to describe it. As if proximity guaranteed truth… and distance implied ignorance.
The question is not new. Nor is it simple. Living in a country does not always mean understanding it. And observing it from afar does not necessarily distort it.
Sometimes closeness creates habit. It normalizes what should disturb. Those inside learn to coexist with it. Those outside, instead, still ask questions.
It is neither better nor worse. It is different.
Those who live a reality feel it on their skin. Those who observe it from a distance may see it in perspective. And between these two views —the intimate and the distant— something closer to the truth often emerges.
In times when everything is argued from the first person, it is worth remembering that the world does not operate only at a domestic scale. Stories travel. Perspectives do too.
And sometimes —just sometimes— what feels confusing from within becomes clearer from afar. Not because it is more real, but because it is less burdened by habit.
To narrate is not to appropriate. It is to try to understand. And understanding often begins by daring to look… even from a distance.
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