Chonor of not fully understanding The passion of the generation of our children for Australia. For us it was an empty and very remote place, from where a director came to the best way that many of us loved as Peter Weir (what happened to The last wavemasterpiece inspired by the aborigena legend of the final tsunami, with a beautiful young Richard Chamberlain? Why don’t they ever give it on TV?).
For our children, however, Australia is the place of dreams. And the work of the dreams of some of them is the one I do a girl I know: an employee in a center where we deal with the kangaroos orphans. Unfortunately, the kangaroos orphans are many, because the mother is often put under a motorist, and in the baby carrier the baby can survive three days. Only that The kangaroo is a very anxious animal. Sometimes the little ones died from the shock. Sometimes they save themselves and can be recovered.
I wonder if this is not a metaphor. The generation of anxiety is growing. The Canguro generation. For heaven’s sake, anxiety has certainly not been invented today. I remember the first time I perceived it. An anxiety different from the natural one, which for example precedes an important exam.
Aldo Cazzullo (photo by Carlo Vangi Gilbert).
The anxiety that comes from the perception of not having time to do everything you should do. But it was the summer of 2017, and in short I had already turned fifty years. The age in which, as they say in a film by Aldo Giovanni and Giacomo, the smell of death began to be at the bottom.
A kangaroo mother with her puppy appearing from the pounding (photo Getty Images).
The kangaroo generation thanks to the sky is very far from this perspective, but He has to face many sources of anxiety that we did not have. The first obviously is the network, it’s the mobile phone, it’s social, it is the need to be always connectedto check if someone wrote, named, perhaps insulted, offended, threatened. The second, but the most important, is the absence of certainties, of stable worksof safe salaries, of life prospects. The real name of anxiety is fear of the future.
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