A FLASH of hope. Damn if it's tough. A year of pandemic changed EVERYTHING. AND ALL. It seems like when, as children, with the stick of the cremino just eaten (for the youngest, the cremino is a milk cream ice cream with a low-fat cocoa coating on a wooden stick) we wrote something on the sand and that writing lasted a moment, the time it took for the sea wave to arrive and delete everything. Well Covid-19 was capable of delete everything. Surely a year ago it has erased the present, it has made the past so beautiful that we regret it as we never imagined it and it has colored the future with colors that look more like gray than blue.
In twelve cursed months there have been so many certainties built over decades delete them all and you can no longer write a word that looks like hope. The vaccine miracle, discovered in less than a year, has materialized, but, even in this case, it seems something unattainable for many. It seems like when you are in the middle of the desert, with your throat and lips dry from thirst and you see an oasis in the distance. When you seem to have reached it and are ready to dive in to finally be able to quench your thirst, the oasis disappears.
Our boys and the wonderful story of Fiammetta
It's hard. Damn if it's tough. It's hard for adults, but it's damn hard especially for them: our boys. A year ago, they lost everything in an instant. School, friends, fun, entertainment. In a moment that light that accompanies you and that is born of course when you are young, it first faded and then faded away. Computers and smartphones must not and cannot replace "life", The real one. School is the engine of life, the one that gives you the impetus to run the time of an entire existence, but now that engine is stopped in the pits.
Leave as soon as possible and safely. For everyone. As soon as possible. Fortunately, however, there are them: our boys. Some of them manage to draw intense glimpses of blue sky with their stories. Simple stories, but of that simplicity that manages to dismantle the terrible daily complexities in an instant. This is the story of Fiammetta, 10, enrolled in the fourth year of primary school in Mezzolombardo, in Trentino. When her school closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the little girl followed her dad Massimiliano to work. Fiammetta's father is a shepherd.
The DAD at 1000 meters high
The mother is a social health worker and for this reason she cannot take her with her. Fiammetta's classroom has therefore become the pasture where her father's 350 goats are raised. "In the morning we put the computer on a flat table and then I also have a chair. We turn on the computer so I can immediately enter the video lesson, I prepare the notebooks and I also put a pebble in them otherwise the wind will turn the pages. It is beautiful, it gives me inspiration to write and it makes me happier and also interested", enthusiastically tells Fiammetta.
The DAD at a height of 1.000 meters, in the midst of nature and with animals as schoolmates. Do not give up in difficulties, always find the best way to "fool"Who wants us"fool"Life, the future and dreams. The story of Fiammetta is a dazzling light in the daily darkness that surrounds us.
Thanks Fiammetta. From the heart.
