In processes of aggregation, the difficulty of measuring ourselves with otherness leads us to idealize the remote out of fear of the close at hand. We often think we should avoid uneasiness so as to experience ease.
That we should go towards something unknown and idealized, and shun what is familiar, striving to keep it at a distance. So why not suggest a paradox, that is, shunning ease and succeeding in living in uneasiness, putting to use the very mechanisms so innate to us, because they are repetitive and therefore so fundamental to our way of feeling. Uneasiness, as an imbalance of forces, sends us back to the human being’s constant effort, to its striving towards the absolute so as to find a balance within itself. Life, in terms of emotional expenditure, is in a large measure in uneasiness, drawing strength and vitality from it. Ease becomes a point beyond the self, and not a self. This unknown instance towards which we strive leads us to cancel the actual experience of our feeling, reducing it to something we should modify or eliminate, instead of understanding that by doing so we are liable to glorify what we fail to have, to the detriment of what we actually know.
The present tendency, leading us to feed the illusion of well-being as a means of avoiding uneasiness, is a schizophrenic tendency, bringing about the separation of the individual in a duality of opposite poles. A dangerous tendency, leading to the intolerance of our contradictory instances. Obviously we need not glorify suffering as an end in itself, but rather recognize its usefulness. Through it, impulses discover a language that after a while can help us become more familiar with the architecture of our feelings. Present-day society strives towards well-being like towards an illusion lying outside of us, actually by-passing our feelings, a Prozac-fed society that shuns life.
So experiencing uneasiness can paradoxically become the goal towards which we strive,because it reflects our existential difficulty, counteracting the spurious tendency of terms and intentions which lead us to deny the meaning of our suffering, however pathological it may be held to be, and seeing it instead as an element of contradiction enabling us to progress.

Donatella Caprioglio