Yes, of course, climbing often alone along the difficulties as well as diving inside your pain is not the most amazing thing to do. However, there is only one way to avoid it: to die (in your body or in your mind). Are you ready to cope death in order to avoid life? I hope you are not. Since the beginning life is a choice. … Continua a leggere The Easy and the Worth
Probably, the best and the only thing to say to someone to tell your love is “you are not alone”. It does not matter the kind of relationship you have (couple, parents and sons, friends), but if you say “you are not alone” you are declaring the best of your gift: sharing. It does not matter if you buy flowers or presents, what really matters is … Continua a leggere Valentine for Everybody
Controversies are never something to be afraid of or to avoid or even to abolish, they can be the source of a growth, of a positive change, they are a resource for any confrontation. However, there are controversies and controversies! I mean, if we suppose that everything and always and repeatedly has to be put in discussion for the pleasure of discussion, we should pay … Continua a leggere All Enemies All Guilty
Ian McEwan’s The Children Act, whose title in Italian is La ballata di Adam Henry, is a book to be read, definitely. A title that in both the languages seems to capture essential points of the narration: the children act because children play their game somewhat better than adults and sometimes with more coherence; the ballad of Adam Henry not only for its reference to S. B. Yeats’ ballad, Là nei … Continua a leggere Ian McEwan: The Children Act
The balance we don’t have is the same we pretend on the other side. It is the perfection we don’t have the one we accuse the others to lack. It is the rule we don’t have the one we want the others to be governed by. We are no more used to look inside ourselves, but we prefer to judge from the hight of our … Continua a leggere The Balance We Don’t Have
The music of silence is the one which sounds its voice beyond the useless voices and the noises which give no dimension to the passion lived and suffered by your heart. It is the music which remains inside of you whenever the nothingness around tries to deform your passion for life which has always been your guide and your feeling. The music of silence is … Continua a leggere The Music of Silence
I see such a crisis everywhere, a human and a meaning one not only an economical, that I am really worried. I wonder where we are going to find an end if we stop promoting values and education (cultural and human), where? We also pretend time does not exist. Everybody is so closed over himself not to see that the time we suppose belonging to … Continua a leggere The Ability to Discuss
There are plenty of them, the lost stories. They are those we cannot know or don’t want to know and they are also the ones we don’t want to tell in the pale hope not to be judged for them because we are responsible or simply because we have undergone them and we don’t want the others to know it. However, they exist and we … Continua a leggere The Lost Stories
Today, 6th February, I feel as a duty my words against the Female Genital Mutilation. It is a day when, wherever in the world, people speak about Zero Tolerance Against the Female Genital Mutilation. It is a day which should be every day because many are the reasons to stop these mutilations and they belong to different aspects of our daily life: religion, society, medicine, … Continua a leggere Donne Cucite di Sabrina Avakian
I can’t bear it anymore! I cannot bear people who affirm it is a right to use violence. What sort of right is it? A right supports every person and protects him/her from any abuse. How is it possible that violence, the mother of any abuse, can be understood as a right? Violence is never a right but its opposite. It is the danger that each … Continua a leggere Violence Is Never a Right
