Citizen of Nowhere

I was born on an island I don't like. Italians knows what Sardinia is. Jojo fans do also. A friend of mine once joked that I was just like Diavolo because "you both really don't want anyone to know you're from Sardinia". It's kind of hard to explain to strangers when they comment "oh, that's such a beautiful place! Why would you ever want to leave?" because it really is a gorgeous place, and I'd like to love it as well. People born and raised in small towns, islands or small countries with limited access to other places might understand, and when I talk about it with them it seems like they do: a beautiful prison is still a prison. "Prison" might be too big of a word, actually, but when you're a kid dreaming of somewhere else it's very easy to feel trapped. The same people for 18 years. The usual mindset coming up again and again. Some patterns seem inescapable unless you physically remove yourself from it all. I moved to Northern Italy when I was 19 to study (and to live close to my…