2012 Was a burdensome year,
important people coming closer, important people going far away. 2 big countries. Dreams falling apart, dreams coming true. Learning at the top, absorbing experiences day by day and trying to digest all of them to the right extent.
This is the only, second, post for the year 2012, and eventually it is coming at the end of this year.
Some reflection come to my mind after 12 months, after reading one of the best books I have ever read in my entire life. They are all about this generation, our generation of young. They try to teach us to be miserable, to be looser, not to trust ourselves but why?
Today what most Italians miss is space. A physical, but also mental space, which represents possibilities and future hopes.
For decades, this feeling of openness has been the engine of our growth and the urge to think positive.
Today we use to say: there is not the future of once upon a time anymore.
This is not just a "lapsus" it is the sentiment, it is what we really think.
But again why? Which are the basis to say so?
Indeed there are very controversial truth which goes totally against our way of thinking:
The infant mortality rate has dropped to the point where many foreign analysts suggest that Italy is now "the safest place in the world to give birth to a child." Health care is guaranteed for all. Much less people die on the roads. There are fewer murders, and are overall less committed crimes of blood.
Disease - it is a fact - are treated in a much more targeted and effective way than before.
We all live, or almost all, in apartments adapted to our needs, with health services and connected to the mains. We are a literate country, and we certainly do much less effort than what our fathers and our mothers did, and before them the previous generation, accustomed to conquer every inch of their well-being at the cost of hard work and sacrifices.
This is not just a "lapsus" it is the sentiment, it is what we really think.
But again why? Which are the basis to say so?
Indeed there are very controversial truth which goes totally against our way of thinking:
The infant mortality rate has dropped to the point where many foreign analysts suggest that Italy is now "the safest place in the world to give birth to a child." Health care is guaranteed for all. Much less people die on the roads. There are fewer murders, and are overall less committed crimes of blood.
Disease - it is a fact - are treated in a much more targeted and effective way than before.
We all live, or almost all, in apartments adapted to our needs, with health services and connected to the mains. We are a literate country, and we certainly do much less effort than what our fathers and our mothers did, and before them the previous generation, accustomed to conquer every inch of their well-being at the cost of hard work and sacrifices.
Isn't it a perfect framework? In part, yes, but be careful: the progression "ad infinitum" curve of our prosperity marked a reversal in the last twenty years, and young people no longer invest in their future because they are gripped by a deep discouragement, to resignation that is transmitted endemic, or by inheritance.
Fathers are inducing their children not to believe too much in their ability to avoid the disappointment that inevitably follow when we have to contend with the reality of a country that has stopped believing in them.
My personal point of view is that tripped by the unconscious tends to common sense, can emerge a widespread feeling, a subtle uneasiness, a way of thinking that becomes immediately clear and puts us in front of our own way of reading the real .
This means that we are unconsciously destroying our future possibility just because the common sense bring us to think that we have got less opportunities than our predecessors.
Isn't it witless?
Wish every wonderful person Italian or not Italian to have a wonderful, open, full of opportunity and full of cleverness 2013!
