Question:
if you knew the glass of Italian wine you were holding in your hand was the last wine you would ever drink, which wine would you choose? And which glass would you choose to drink it from?
If you could choose one place to drink your last glass of wine, where would it be? And if you could choose one person, out of all of the people that you know, to share it with, who would it be?
You are holding the glass in your hands – what can you hear around you? What can you see? How does the air smell around you, how does it feel on your skin? What day is it? What time? What is the weather like?
What are you wearing? Are you sitting down, standing up, or leaning against something?
Are you going to have your last wine with something? Some cheese? Biscuits? Chocolate? Or do you prefer to have it on its own? It’s your choice.
How would you drink your last glass of Italian? Would you take tiny sips, savour it, holding each sip in your mouth for minutes at a time, deliberately lengthening each moment in quiet meditation; or would you gulp it down in huge bold swallows, staring the impending end in the face like a fearless warrior?
The wine is finished now - how do you feel? If you were given the chance to drink that last glass again, would you have chosen to drink it any differently? Yes? No?
Always drink your wine as if it’s the last time you will ever drink it…
as if grapes will cease to exist after the last drop is drunk…
…as if the sun, the moon and the stars will disappear along with it too.
Ciao.
(img by: paulaloe)
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