A little bit of Italy described through very interesting articles about Che Guevara, Jesus, Yoga, Maurizio Gasparri, the Rett Syndrome and what means nowadays being a woman instead of being a mother
What do have Che Guevara and Jesus in common?
First of all, our director Andrea Umbrello, asked us and himself an intriguing question:
Their importance is different, their history also, but what is undeniable is the fact that they express with the same strength the deep truth of their beliefs.
It is possible to compare these extraordinary figures, without scandalize anyone affected of fanaticism.
Let us analyse together what Jesus and Che Guevara have in common.
Firstly, their ideals suffer nowadays of a loss of followers.
In Italy, only the 23% of people younger than 27 years old believe in God, which is strange, considering that this Country hosts the Vatican City. Only the Philippines, with the 94% of people believing in God, have not recorded a lack of faith.
What about the revolutionary ideals of Che? Guevara himself said that “One of the most important duties of a real revolutionary man, is to verify how the revolution has changed the politics, how institution evolves and take part in organizing people’s life.”
Referring to Italian politics, what’s left of our little revolutions?
Anything.
We do not have a cultural identity, a democratic identity, the Costitutional Law has lost its strength and people have stopped to believe in the institutions, with a considerable and worrying lack of trust.
Secondly, the force of an Imperialist system killed both Che Guevara and Jesus.
2000 years ago, people from Jerusalem accused and condemned Jesus, which was punished following the Roman law by the Roman Soldiers.
Che Guevara was killed in Bolivia by the expedition led by Felix Ramos, agent of CIA.
The heroes of the poor, the homeless, the suffering, were betrayed by people who the trusted in: Giuda and (according to Benigno, Che’s companion) Fidel Castro himself.
What has remained of their sufferance? The message of sharing properties, of considering the poor and the less fortunate, of encouraging generosity among every other thing.
Talking about why Italians cannot feel represented by their politicians, we can use use Maurizio Gasparri, a right – winged politician, as an example.
He never misses the opportunity of saying something particularly out of context.
During a talk show, Alfio Marchini – one of the candidate for the Major’s race in Rome – said that his son came out of his coma because he had never smoked pot and that he had never done drugs in general. After this declaration of nonsense, Maurizio Gasparri, defended Marchini’s beliefs and declared that the other candidate for the Mayor’s race, Roberto Giachetti, had never denied having done drugs and that, sometimes, the effects of these drugs were still recognisable on Giachetti’s political position.
Should be Romans governed by a drug dealer? Yes, according to Gasparri. Someone seriously addicted to drugs could rule Romans.
This is something that really made us laugh. Thanks, Maurzio Gasparri for your fair play.
Instead of drugs, we should all suggest Gasparri to consider seriously to take some yoga lessons, as Sara Trinchero suggested to us all in her very interesting last article.
Yoga is a very ancient discipline, which focuses on the balance of the body and its self-awareness. Using your 
breath and cleaning up your mind from useless thoughts, you can explore the real you through the movements you reproduce and the “asana”, the Sanskrit word for “yoga positions”.
Yoga is a path that leads to the freedom of our energy, something that could give us positivity, serenity and balance. That could make us feel complete.
Talking about feeling complete, many people think that having kids is the only way to complete our life. We have recently celebrated the Mum’s day, but there are many women that do not have children and still feel complete.
Elisa Bellino, writer, graphic, biology student, wrote for us an article about how having children is the natural consequence of being a woman.
Growing up with the heavy thought that having a baby and settling down is the only women’s duty in life, millions of girls have accepted this situation as we have accepted the Pythagorean Theorem.
Should having a baby be an opportunity of happiness of a social duty?
Should being a mother a consequence of the fact that you are a girl?
Are we still so influenced by the imaginary sound of our biological clock?
We don’t have the answer to this question, that’s why we invite you to think about it.
At the same time, a sad topic that Maria Giovanna Campagna, a young and talented writer, wanted to share with us this week is something that is still related to babies.
I’m talking about the Rett Syndrome, a rare disease that could affect new-born girls and which preclude them the possibility of speaking, moving and learning. It is also known as the “Beautiful eyes Syndrome”, because eyes are the only thing that helps these little girls communicate with adults.
We hope that a way to cure this terrible genetic disease will be found as soon as possib
e. The rarity of the Rett Syndrome makes it still unknown to the majority of people. In fact, there is just one hospital in the World that is studying a way to cure this illness. It’s the Texas Children’s Hospital of Houston.
