A great emotion to see today the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, postponed to 2021 due to Covid 19. Many athletes from various countries of the world paraded in the stadium in front of the empty stands because the audience, anxious, could watch them only from home.
Before the entrance of the Olympic flame, some individuals dressed in white and blue appeared who reproduced, with skill and spectacularity, the pictograms, emblem of every single sport included in the Olympic schedule.
The pictograms made their first appearance in the Japanese capital at the 1964 Olympics, in order to solve language problems because only the Japanese were able to read their alphabet. These are stylized images depicting the different disciplines, with the shapes reduced to a minimum, to understand their meaning and show, in an attractive way, the movement of the athletes.
When the speaker, describing the beautiful show, said that 64 pictograms had been reproduced, the thought immediately went to the 64 cards of the MY LIFE game, characterized by essential images to be understood by the viewer and at the same time able to stimulate memories. and autobiographical writing. Putting the pictograms made by the famous Japanese designer Masaaki Hiromura next to the images of the MY LIFE game cards may seem risky but the meaning that unites them is important: peoples of different countries, with different languages, which understand each other, united in the game. And thinking also that in the distant past many ancient peoples, Egyptians, Sumerians, Phoenicians, used pictograms as a means of communicating thought, it is even more exciting.
