Chronicles From The Future: The amazing story of Paul Amadeus Dienach

Who says that I have nothing of my own in this new life? I have one of the richest galleries of the world, right here, before me! These sights, these incredible images, are more mine that anyone else’s! For the rest of the world they’re just harmonious lines and colours.

Oh my dearest homeland… Tomorrow when I’m back, will be a double joy for me! I’ll ask Silvia to come with me and share my great joy, a world of vivid life memories and familiar places.

They’re right when they say that there’s no place like home! I’ve often virtually travelled back to the places where I grew up, I’ve often let my memories consume me and take me back in time for a while, but there’s no feeling in the world like when you’re actually there, no matter how long it took you to return and no matter what you had left behind, even if what you had left behind is not there anymore… I feel so blessed, so privileged to have the chance to be here again and I thank Lord for that, for I’ve never done anything to deserve such incredible fate, such luck and such divine gifts. I feel as if I belonged in the truly enlightened elite, as if I were one of the chosen ones of the Rosernes Dal.

CONFESSING EVERYTHING TO SILVIA

1-VIII

I allowed my enthusiasm and spontaneity to take over, and I really shouldn’t have. It wasn’t her fault; it was my duty to restrain myself for her sake. I had managed to hide my old life and my true identity from everyone, including Silvia, I had managed to keep it buried deep down inside me for a whole year, and in ten minutes I ruined it all! My heart was pounding with joy, I lost control and I revealed everything all at once… She was startled and at once, all the doubts and hesitations that she’s had until now turned into certainty… She had conquered all her fears and suspicions, she was always on my side, she had faith in me, she trusted me. Her faith and trust was what had built such an unshakeable moral foundation for our love, and that unshakeable foundation I managed to demolish in the blink of an eye, just by telling her the truth... The tone of sincerity in my voice left no room for doubt. Her suspicions were confirmed…

I know that at some point it’ll pass; she will forget everything and we will go back to normal. People can become used to anything. I speak from experience. I’m hers and she is mine and that will never change! In fact, I’ll speak to her tomorrow. Over time, she’ll make her peace with the fact that she was destined to connect with a man that is a foreigner in her world, her era and her circle, with a man from a bygone era.

When I told her about my flight over the Swiss Alps, she was the one to suggest that we went there together the next morning, just the two of us…

We departed this morning, with crystal clear blue sky, two hours after the sunrise. She was incredibly fun and vibrant throughout the journey, as if our relationship had just started. She was playful like a child! When I asked her if she was feeling dizzy she replied, “On the contrary, I have never felt dizzy in my life; I don’t even know what it feels like!” But I pretended not to hear that and told her not to look down, to look at me instead. I wanted to be helpful somehow, to take care of her. She playfully replied that if she looked at me she’d experience a different kind of vertige

. I noticed how she used the French word for it, just to add to the playful nature of her words. She kept joking until we arrived. She was in very high spirits.

Upon arrival, I felt so proud seeing how thrilled she was with the amazing views, with the wonders of nature that my homeland had been blessed with. I talked to her about everyday things, our friends, our lives, trying to hide how overwhelmed with emotion I was from seeing again the scenery of my old life.

We walked for quite a while until we decided to stop on a hill and lie among the wildflowers to rest. It must have been around noon.

“You’re right”, said Silvia after a long pause of silence, “this place is magical; I feel reborn!”

We talked about a thousand things and she was very cheerful. In fact, at times I caught her humming while she was tying a dark green silk thread around the windflowers that we had just gathered together. She was making a little wreath. Then, I remember asking her which part of all that we had seen and experienced over the past few months she had enjoyed the most. The words she uttered next made me even happier than I was: “It’s beautiful everywhere, as long as we’re together.” Then she talked to me about her love of nature. “I think it runs in my veins,” she said with a smile. And then I was reminded of the meaning of her name: it means “of the forest”.