Oct 4 | 2023
I think there is always a first time in everything, and perhaps this is not a revelatory thought or something so exceptional, I think that is because of this that its importance is often underestimated and we never pay enough attention to what happens to us.. .. especially if it’s for the first time.
This was the case of Edoardo, a boy from Taranto who I got to know during a commercial service and who put me in front of a situation that I had never faced in my life and that I didn't know directly. I don't want to talk about problems or underline them, because he transmitted everything to me except the image of a dark boy, victim of something he couldn't choose... very young and so strong inside that he didn't transmit anything other than security and awareness.
On the set he was not alone but surrounded by his family, a fundamental support, probably the best guide to face the journey, a journey that until then it seemed too arduous for a boy to face.
It delivered to me a feeling of positivity and strength, that I thought about in these days full of rollercoaster insecurity, so typical for me... and I’m sure that most of those who do what I do see themselves in this.
We raise mountains of sand that seem insurmountable to us when, and we put so much energy into doing it that it seems like we have it no more left to cross them and Edoardo ,with his story, taught me that all that wasted energy is a strength that we can put into something else, something that brings us closer to the destination that that mountain we created no longer allows us to see.
I understood that each of us it has a road to travel and problems to face and although this may already be written I also believe that day after day we are the ones who pave it with our choices, awareness and trust that we place in the step following the one we have just taken.