"Everyday, I pass hundred of people, sometimes a thousand that I do not know anything about, that I do not learn anything from or share anything with. Days pass, some faces are more and more familiar, some looks catch my attention, like if they were asking questions while others ignore me as I might do sometimes too. We imagine things, we look at and watch each others, and we ask ourselves who are those people we think we know by seeing them frequently but that we don’t know anything about. After days, months then years pass. Some faces disappear; others are still there, drowning in a silence which brings everyday more credit to this dreadful reality. Everybody pretend that our generation is born under the communication era. I can’t see anything but than a deaf, dumb and blind nation dressed in public with eagerness. We grow distance. We complain within our own circles, in groups made of experts of silence and fear. The same fear that grows everyday. I have a hard time understanding what these attitudes could bring to our lives if not more frustration. I believe life is already paved with too many difficulties and troubles that we don’t have to make them even harder. Everybody is free to consider the way s/he acts with others by her/himself. We might not be able to get along all together or understand everybody but I don’t think silence, selfishness and violence have a role to play if we want to reconsider our relations. Talk is still free, make the most of it!"
- Morgan

"With time passing, I realize one can only count on him/herself, that the others will never be the solution to our problems, changes only come if we really want them to come… All that is probably true but I also think that we never move alone. Of course, I know that for some times already but I have only felt this strongly recently. By the end of 2004 I felt isolated, that the people I thought having goals in common were disappearing slowly, absorbed by the mass… But this idea is only partially true. It was more than anything else the result of my mood back then. I can’t really know if that was the cause or the consequence of this. The important thing is that these times made me feel strongly that I am nothing by myself and that sharing, talking, dreaming, working together make life worth living."
-Hervé

"While modern societies celebrate the rise of the information era and the related technologies, our daily lives are still marked by elementary communication problems. As informations can be sent from one of the globe and received on the other side in a few seconds without provoking any questions, how do we consider our peers, the folks we barely know or our communities? The most complex political theories, the slogans we use and the wishes we make in public will never have their full meanings as long as we don’t make all that we can to build possibilities around us, that the links binding us (or that we need to work on) are not sources of questioning. Communicate with honesty and simplicity is not easy and I am afraid to know too well the mistakes that are mentioned above. Of course, these processes are not simple but are we looking for easy things in our lives? To listen to our friends, give a chance to new relationships, to overcome sometimes insecurities and shyness, to talk about our feelings and our wills… This needs time and also to question our daily life. And not having any teachers, models or rules to follow make it even harder. I am sure that if we keep on opening our hearts (and not forgetting our own limits), sharing stories and spending times together, telling more about ourselves, remembering that being together will always mean more than our intimacies, every friendship starting, every minute spent talking will be a small victory."
- Gaël