Reflections gathers short texts and images shared by young people who have participated in encounters, conversations, and initiatives connected to MELA across the Mediterranean. These contributions do not seek to explain or represent the region, but to offer situated impressions shaped by experience, memory, and place. Collected over time and without a fixed rhythm, Reflections forms part of MELA’s ethnographic archive: a space where listening continues beyond events, and where voices emerge in their own tone, pace, and language.