Serena Dandini (photo by Gianmarco Chieregato).
No.It is not January but September the month that for me represents the beginning of the year. It is a personal rhythm that I believe I share with many people, a tradition that is now imprinted in the DNA of past school seasons that gave way to exciting news and good intentions.
Even today, when I am no longer a girl, I always feel a thrill of joy and vitality in this month of change.even if I must say that this year overwhelmed by a strange, sudden, shouted and sweaty election campaign, there is certainly less desire to look confidently into the future.
But luckily there are always our friends books to give us a hand in the most difficult moments and in these days putting in place the library I found a little essay from a year ago that seems perfect to me to face the turbulent waters of this September and try to understand who we really want to “be” in the year we are about to face.
“About the meaning of life” by Vito Mancuso (Garzanti).
We always know what we would like to have, buy, own but we often forget who we want to be and Vito Mancuso with his About the meaning of life (Garzanti) takes us with grace and kindness by the hand, helping us to rediscover an existential path long lost.
It can’t just be the things we surround ourselves with or the enemies we dislike that define our journey to Earth. For some time we have lost the sense of our being in the world immersed in an emotional bubble often built on ephemeral desires and nourished by a hypertrophic ego that makes us short-sighted and makes us lose all connection with others. While the meaning of life for us humans is also the ability to be together and share experiences.
With simplicity and lightness as it is in his style, the author does not neglect any philosophical and dialectical path to help us find the thread of a deeper conscience: a healthy and saving operation because when the going gets tough we have to strengthen our soul to face the extreme situations that await us without “losing ourselves”.
Unfortunately atrocious wars, energy crises, climate change and abysmal economic gaps only stimulate social cynicism and to make the totalitarianisms proliferate which in these dramatic situations exploit undisturbed malaise, but the future that awaits us deserves unprecedented and courageous reflections and Vito Mancuso’s new gaze is a lifeline for our frailties.
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