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Be on time!
I'm a theatrical actor, so frequently I play. I recently play in a very small town in South Italy. People in South Italy are usually very kind and generous but there are some problems. I usually play at 9 p.m, and habitually we waiting 15 minutes because someone could arrive a bit late. In this occasion, my show was about astrophysic and in the afternoon there was an astronaut who spoke about his ISS station experience. He was very interesting, so why finished on late. For this reason my show was reprogrammed at 9:30 p.m. I was waiting for 2 hours and at 9:30 the place was open. The organiser asked me to waiting, because audience were arriving. Ten minutes, fifteen minutes, twenty minutes, twenty-five minutes. At 10:00 p.m some people were arriving!
So, I thought: if show was starting on time, they would have arrived in the middle of the story!
I think that this is an horrible Italian habit: I hate retard, because I think that is direspectful towards others people. World don't turn around us, but we are all on board of the same World and we have to respect us each others.
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Step by step
Last week I listened to two interviews. The fist one was about Cristiano Ronaldo and the second one concerned an ultra trail runner, Michele Evangelisti.
In both interviews there was the same consideration or rather that the success in a challenge arrive step by step. Ronaldo won five Champions Cup and he hope to win another this year, but he said: "To win a Cup we ought to try to win the next match. I never think to the final, I think only about the next match". Also Michele Evengelisti said: "I ran 3113 Km in 45 days. I never think about the destination, I think just to the next 5 kilometres".
I considered my life and my fails. I consider after my achievements. I'm not a genius and I don't have incredibles talents, so I have achieved my goals by the same way of Ronaldo and Evengelisti: step by step, day by day.
This is probably the right way for me: to live in my present and to build a cathedral brick by brick.
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Why I like soccer
I'm Italian, so like soccer. Ok, ok, some Italians don't like soccer, but soccer it's surely the most popular sport in Italy.
But I have an especially reason to love soccer. Since I was child, I had a difficult relationship with my father. He's very good person, but he represent what I hate. He's very generous and honest, but he's always irresolute, nervous and suspicious of unusual. When he don't understand something, he get angry and aggressive. For these reason we often get angry with one another. But I have a good memory. When I was younger, sometime we watched soccer competition together. We support the same team, Juventus, so during thirty years, we shared the same emotions, illusions and delusions. Today also, despite we live far from each other, when Juventus plays we chatting about the match and we share opinions. We watch rarely a match together, we drink one or two beer, we eat potatoes. These are very good moments and I think that, when my father will be dead, I will keep this simple memories in my mind and heart.
August 31, 2018
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Ray Bradbury's tales
I like Ray Bradbury's books. My best choice is a collection of his most celebrated tales. These tales, frequently, surprise me and they make me think about human condition, philosophy and the future. In these stories, often, there are melancholy and irony. Bradbury used sci-fiction to investigate our soul, revealing that, also in a technological future or in space exploration, we will still human. In my opinion, Bradbury, try to warns us to consider the technology a solution of our problems; technology offers a lot of incredible solutions and opportunities, but humanity needs a relationship. The Bradbury's characters are often alone in the deep space, lost in the empty space. Sometime they still in peace, but usually they need help or they try to contact someone. In these tales, androids or robots even are like humans, and in their last evolutionary stage, they fell angry, in love or they seek a revenge.
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My first, short and scary 3D experience
I like video games. Since I was child, in the nineties, I played them. Today I'm a mature man, but this passion is still whit me.
Last week I bought a 3D visor for my PS4. I would try virtual reality and I was really curious. But I need a big adventure. I finally chosen Resident Evil 7, an horror game inspired by horror movie like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).
I weared my visor and I started to play. Four minutes after I removed my visor. I did not expect this. For the first time I didn't play a game, I was inside the game. Although I knew that it was only a game, I had the impression to be inside. I was in an ugly, dirty and horrible house, abandoned by longtime. The silence was terrifying, and every noise a scare. I arrived in front at a closed door; someone or something was breathing behind. I immediately shut off my PS4.
August 27, 2018
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What I learn about marriage
In September 2009 I got married with Francesca. We were engaged three years before, in 2006, in Paris. We were come back in Italy and we have been lived in Venice for two years, and in 2008 we definitely chosen Milan.
Francesca and I changed each other. I'm more calm and aware in myself, Francesca also is stronger and more serene that in the past. Two children teach us to be more patient and enforce our union. Everyone has his own work and interest, but we pay attention to spend time together. And, finally, we know deeply our partner and we respect his weaknesses.
Marriage is not easy: sometime I reflect how could been my life if I hadn't done this choice. This isn't a regret, it's just a suggestion. Sometime I meet very interesting women and I would like know them. I imagine how would be a relationship whit them and I realise that there a lot of opportunity. I think that this happen also for Francesca.
Although I took my choices considering my family, they are just my choices.
Since twelve years, we are building something together: sometime it's like a booth, sometime like a little house and sometime like a cathedral. But this is just our booth, our house or, finally, our cathedral.
August 17, 2018
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I'm out of the time
Monday 13 August, LinkedIn sent me a job offer. An important company recruits a storyteller to managing its communication. The Company needs to tell to the public its activity, its project and its approach. I visited its site, I read with attention the announcement and a world puzzle me: speed. Apparently (but probably also in the reality) this company have a lot of projects, so they hire a manager that can works quickly. This is a very important skill for them.
I'm an hard worker: I have no problem to work twelve or fort-teen hours per day. Therefore I'm not afraid by toil or stress. I managing team between five to fifty workers. However I learned to work accurately, and accuracy need time. I'm impressed by the complexity of human creations and activities. I learned to respect others workers, because a lot of works, apparently, are easy to do. We don't pay just an advice or a product; we are paying experience, time and, probably a story of failed attempts and innovations.
I'm probably out of the time and, mostly, out of my time. This species of digital futurism is changing our world and our worths.
Right now the question is: can I continue to live my slow and contemplative life, or I'm destinate to be overwhelmed by modern system?
August 16, 2018
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A teacher from the Middle Age.
Since July, I'm studying Dante Divina Commedia, especially Inferno. I had studied it jet, twenty five years ago, when I was a student in high school. I aways love Divina Commedia, its complexity, its intensity. But, nowadays, I'm discovering much more.
In Commedia, Dante, goes through the three kingdoms of death, Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. But the real trip is into himself. Although Dante tell around death's world, I wrote Commedia for the living people and for us.
Two questions, at this moment, are surprising me. The first is that Dante need help: at the beginning of story, Dante is lost in a Selva Oscura (a deep forest, probably the sin). He watch a light on an hill, I try to climb the hill, but three horrible beasts (a panther, a lion and a wolf) stop him. He's completely desperate, when a light appear. Dante scream: "Miserere!" (Help me!" or "Have mercy!"). The light is Virgilio and, in the book, he represent the reason, the human intelligence. He will support Dante across Inferno and Purgatorio. But the most important question remain: we need help for the trip of life.
Another part that I like is when Dante meet the "ignavi" (like "worthless"). These are the people who never make a choice in their life. They never take a risk. Dante wrote: "mai non fur vivi" ("they never lived"). They are so loathsome that they stay out of the Inferno. Their castigation is to be bite by insect's swarms while some horrible worms eat their blood and tears.
But, why, Dante prefer a sinner to a worthless? The question is very complex, because we must know the Italian's politic situation in the Middle Age. But, a part of reason is that Dante encourage us to live our life. He tell us: is better to fail that to renounce. Make a choice, take part in your time.
August 15, 2018
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A world into my mind
Since ten days I'm on Italki. In this period I spoke with people from Brazil, UK, Indonesia, USA, Japan.
During the same period I stayed in a little chalet in Italy, near Tourin. Right now I used my phone's connection, because there isn't an internet connection. I'm in a little hamlet, probably there are less than 30 people. Yesterday the electric line has fell for ten hours.
Nevertheless my impression it to be more connect to the Word than a week ago. This is, obviously, only an impression, because I'm really isolated. In the morning, I read Italian's newspaper, and I'm bored by the political discussions. They are out the time. For example, right now we discuss about the reintrodution of military service's that was cancelled 15 years ago.
Not a news about situation in South America, or in Australia or in China, if there aren't earthquakes, tsunamis or volcanic explosions.But what else about the World?
I'm a curious man, I like to know foreign habits. I enrolled my on Italki to learn a language, and, right now, I'm scheduling a new travel in Japan. In ten days my world has grown, or, more correctly, I opened my mind so my horizon is now bigger.
August 14, 2018
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Radio Lovers
TV, websites, social networks, Youtube, Netflix, Amazon Video Prime, Sky … there a lot of solutions to watch films, listen to news and information about everything that interest you.
But, what is your best choise?
For me is the radio. I listen to radio when I’m driving, when I’m coking, when I’m having free time.
I love radio, because, usually, it’s dicrete and polite. When I listen to a program my brain processes information, I’m focused on the discussion, I can elaborate an opinion.
Without images, it’s easier to consider the real importance of a phrase, or if a broadcast’s guest is really qualified. Today, when programs are on air, we can follow a direct live on Facebook or on the others online platforms. I don't like this solution, I prefer just hear the sound. My impressioni is that, on the radio, words regain relevance in our communication. Probably this is the real reason beacuse I love so much radio programs.
August 13, 2018
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