The rabbit hole
By Alessandro Carosi

Dreams played a big part in the two months I spent on the coffee plantation in Thailand, it was as if they wanted to tell me something, there were so many of them, and only when I woke up could I distinguish between the ones we might call “real” and those that occurred during… sleep.

One night, immersed in this parallel reality as I now see it, I met an old friend from when I was a boy and lived in San Benedetto del Tronto, and we talked about many things, but only one sentence remained indelibly etched in my mind… He said to me, “Go down the rabbit hole and find out how deep the hole is”, the same phrase Morpheus said to Neo when he was trying to make him understand that the world he lived in was just an illusion, I woke up immediately with this phrase and the face of my old friend imprinted in my mind, what was he trying to tell me or make me understand? I already know that life is not what it seems, but I’m still not sure what he meant, perhaps it was just a sign that the path I had taken on that farm was the right one.

I start the day with meditation, reading, writing a little on my blog, then I go to have breakfast and the plantation manager tells me that he is going to Chiang Rai and if I want I can bring forward my day off and go with him, I happily accept the chance to visit the city and its cafés. …… anextraordinaryandordinarylife…