why everything ends?
i’ve always had a weird relationship with holidays.
why celebrate on a day picked by someone else, for a reason i didn’t choose?
this christmas made that feeling louder.
i spent time with my grandmother. she’s sick. and there’s a chance this was her last one.
that moment made me think about endings.
not as something tragic by default, but as the quiet mechanism that gives weight to what we do, what we build, what we believe in.
like i often do, my brain tried to solve it. to explain it.
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i’m Mattia, a designer, videomaker and digital artist sharing how i mix creativity, tech and visual storytelling.
why everything ends?
on a natural level, things end because everything is a process.
everything moves, changes, consumes energy, transforms into something else.
on a human level, things end because meaning needs a limit.
if something had no end, it wouldn’t ask for care. it wouldn’t require a choice. it wouldn’t demand presence.
on an existential level, things end because otherwise nothing would feel heavy enough to matter.
over 2025, i’ve developed a small obsession with sunsets.
those 30 minutes between day and night became something personal. almost intimate.
no matter where i am, i feel the need to stop and watch. and often, to capture them.
not because they’re beautiful.
but because they’re disappearing while i’m looking at them.
photographing sunsets isn’t about freezing time. i know i can’t. it’s about acknowledging that this exact light, this exact color, this exact sky will never exist again in the same way.
why does that little sphere dropping behind the horizon pull us in, every single day?
maybe the most honest answer is that we don’t really know. but the sunset feels even more special because it won’t last, and you feel that in real time.
Heidegger would put it like this:
it’s not important why everything ends.
what matters is that you know it will.
that awareness isn’t a curse. it’s what makes you present.
an “authentic” life isn’t the one that forgets the ending.
it’s the one that lives with it in mind.
what’s fueling me lately
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from the archive
and that’s all. see you around! (: