9th June 2006

We were at the top. It was five o’clock in the morning. We were waiting for the sun to rise on a lost and ideal place in the roof of a lost building somewhere between the Liffey and the North Pole. Dublin was at our feet: it was a very symbolic moment, because us, our group, we have taken all the juice of this small apple called Dublin, we have thrown the best and the worst of us to the streets of the city, and at that moment we were at the top of it, we were watching it from a higher view and it was a moment to remind us that we really lived there. The craze has been our faith for every single night and the purest “I don’t care!” has been our Bible. Who can go into the flat of a Chinese and put an egg in his bed and take his computer to the corridor without being seen? Who can go into a hostel and steel a big blanket without being stopped? Who can run through O’Connell hugging a yellow friend being chased by a big black bouncer? Who can go into a pub and start serving her own pints in front of the barman? Who can brake into a hotel and call to France? Who has such a freedom to go from the bisou soiree to the naked party? Who can dance alone in the middle of Temple Bar Square in front of the crowd? Who, and please tell me if you know, has had more crazy nights than us in this drunken city? No one. There, sitting on that roof I remembered all these days that won’t come back, but I had no regret there, because we have lived our life with no worries and no restrictions, we learnt to be free and to keep this idea always in mind. I don’t know how you imagined Dublin before coming, but I’m sure we run over all our wishes, we have done things we would never expect, we have discovered a big part of us, for the best and the worst, and, above all, we have learnt who we are. Nothing could happen at that moment because it had to be like that; everything, every single minute was in perfect harmony with us and with our thoughts. And Dublin was there, with all its charm, with all its coldness, showing us a sun that we always yearned but that had always been there.