There is Alice, 6, who writes about the family, with her “Dear Grandmother, I missed you, I’m a bastard, please (everything is included) will you forgive me?”, and Julia, Alessia, Veronica and Benedetta, 9, Federica and Chiara 7 years old, and Kla, Gaia, Aurora and Arianna (who did not reveal their age) in full spiritual passion, with their messages addressed to the Almighty, starting from “I DON’T LIKE THIS + WHO ! BUT NOW I LOVE THE ONLY ONE THING, GOD!” to “GOD THANK YOU THAT I DON’T HAVE LICE [disegno di pidocchio] – (checked myself). Dear God, I will forgive my two friends to thank you for this.”

There are statements of intent, such as that of seven-year-old Elisabetta, who writes “I DID NOT MISS MY HOMEWORK”, and existential crises, always with the wear and tear of “gnat” acting as Martha’s black hole, who proclaims: “I FEEL STRANGE, I I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT I’M DOING, WELL, I WILL BE SUFFERED. There is also body positivity, with a cheerful Rossella who looks like this: “Hello everyone, my name is Rossella, I am ten years old and I live in Tricarico, in Basilicata. I’m 1.50m tall, not a bad height, right?”.

Then there are angry messages, so much so that in the description Instagram page Children’s diariesa not entirely ironic warning stands out: “some pages are roommates Agnese and Clementine, profile creators, premise – rude or not politically correct, sorry, they are children.” IDDB success story with 240,000 subscribers is that One evening, by accident, Clementine made Agnese read an old secret diary when she was little, and from there an idea was born: There were no Instagram pages that showed thoughts written by children, so they decided to create it themselves.

“In our opinion,” the two explained to Radio DJ, “there is so much curiosity in what children write, because they manage to make absurd statements on any topic without even thinking about it. They manage to have an opinion on any subject. , and every time they find (in our opinion) brilliant words to talk about it, both because they are simple and because they are new. And indeed, from theology to existentialism, to family, friendship and sentimental turmoil, nothing is missing. Not even politics. In fact, between the declaration of love to Lee Ryan and Duncan James from the Blues and the drawing of a broken heart (in full baby emo style), there are also confessions of worldview, references to personalities and political moments. from the eighties (the page also collects old diaries) nineties and two thousandths, with phrases, probably heard at home and made by their own, and who knows, maybe still adhering to the beliefs of the authors, now adults. “We also love the fact,” Agnese explained, “that kids don’t have any filters. In this regard, we have received several complaints about our choice of publishing pages where children talk about death or use offensive language. But instead, it seems interesting to us to think about how these children somewhere heard all these things said by adults. However, while adults talk about it in an undertone or touch on certain topics in some contexts and not in others, children simply put everything on the same level. they completely change the atmosphere and strike at what sometimes seems to be the principle of cynicism. But childhood is this, it is aware of the ugly, it touches the end of life, it is the pain caused by the perception of a lack of love from a father or mother Children’s diaries they are sad, but it is right that they remain there, because those of us who were not sad children, often, only sometimes or rarely, but all have an accurate and unshakable memory of this sadness.

Page Children’s diaries recalls a work translated in the 2000s by Marcello D’Orta, a teacher who collected sixty of his students’ themes in a book I hope I get away with it, which was first a literary and then a cinematic success, with a transposition on the big screen, signed by the great Lina Wertmüller, and with Paolo Villaggio as the protagonist. There Villaggio, just as we do today by browsing an ever richer feed of profiles, allows himself to be captured by the chirping voices of his students, understanding them in jokes and tricks, but also knowing how to understand them in their everyday experience and in the expression as we said, pain that has been deposited for centuries even in the eyes of children. Today’s kids are different, very different in habits, manner of speaking, hobbies, games, and even in relation to parents, from those that were in 1992, but they have remained almost the same when it comes to stories about life, attachments, responsibilities . . The often unintentional humor and emphasis on storm and onslaught are the same. The impulse of good mood or longing that they cause in us adults is the same. And above all, nostalgia for this moment of life, as Kani said, “never ends, never ends.”