one of my favorites when
the teenager was nine hundred
many of you will have read or
they will have seen the film the legend of the
pianist on the ocean
in a nutshell he talks about this man named
twentieth century that is born within
this transatlantic that at the beginning of the
nine hundred ago the shuttle between the large
britain and new york and he never drops
he lives his whole life inside the
transatlantic once we try
go down but get stuck in the middle of the ladder
remains blocked at the sight of the vastness
and of the complexity of the world and therefore
he does a very smart thing often
we all do
falls within and lets the world be
that goes to him in small doses and then
as people enter
he knows women artists inside the ship
drunk all kinds of humanity though
within a structure that he
knows how to decipher because I had dinner
now do not have a village nearby
I’ve always seen the
nine hundred and its seemed like one
phenomenal strategy to deal with the
my boy doubts, too, I was
afraid curious towards the world but
afraid and in general with the fear of
feel lost in dealing with it for
tell you I enrolled in a course of
degree in English so concentrate everything
the world, however, here in Siena
it’s hard how do you choose one
road between the millions possible
ironically to discover the taste of
embrace new situations open to me
I had to go to live in the world
He always liked me on a boat
the idea of being a researcher
I think that because now I do the
researcher, in short, a researcher at
sant’anna di pisa high school
I deal with climate change and
the idea that could be paid for
studying what I am passionate about is
always seemed an opportunity
unbelievable though when I graduated
here in Siena three years ago I had more doubts
that the hair is the researcher was
a nice idea but also the rockstar
or I do not know how to have a barracuda a
this kind of thing is obviously not
that I do not like to be a researcher is that
I ‘ve never decided who you want to be yet
I felt a little lost as a twentieth century
however, I try when I graduate from
become a researcher but not me
take in no doctorate or the
highest marks but I have none
experience abroad that with a degree
like mine it’s a problem rather
also relevant for going to the market
of work
so I’m in the situation where
there are many of my boys
age today day that is to say
take and leave to return
who knows when the of all universities
more important than they could give me one
push to fuel my chances of
become a researcher the only one with
reach of my pockets that of
Amsterdam which is public and therefore the
rational part team and does all that
that must do
performed the paper supports exams
supplements will eventually be admitted
the other part of me in that restia al
change tries to sabotage me in
all possible ways
but what is done and with two degrees but why
you do not go to work but I do not want to
to be an economist I want to play the
great things like this
when I finish all the excuses to mine
that is, a week before
at the beginning of the courses I decide to do
two air tickets for Amsterdam and one
for me it’s one for the guitar in doubt
and I remember the feeling of yesterday he had
a load of fears and even an industrial one
feeling I had the night before
leaving I think a person waiting
to be guillotined more or less
that the idea of leaving my village
in my affections all that
They seemed to me like that to me
stupid and then go where
In my mind, Amsterdam was a place
inhospitable gray and all my future
classmates were bad guys
in short, for my competitors
resistance to change was total
the beautiful thing of all these pre
departure is that then regularly no
It turns out to be true and the problems you find yourself
to face are all things that ever and
then they would never have passed by
mind as for example the detail that
I do not have a roof over my head
in fact they had offered me a room
in a residence at the modest price of 650
euro per month plus € 1,200 bond
at that point they would kindly
drawn by lot
in which residence I would have ended up
and there was one that was together with one
prison a joke
and if I did not get the extracted one
so my money was held by lot
I say thanks to Dante but I do better
alone
small moment sliding door and also
big mistake because as I discover mine
expenses in Amsterdam there is a lot of water
and therefore few houses so many people
so much demand little offer result
very high prices
also from the university point of view
from the car of my 110 and praise I thought that
I would not have gone on velvet but almost
and instead courses are a tremendous blow
now the Dutch university system e
a little controversy it would take a tea from
part, however, for today it is enough to know that
you have very tight deadlines and it is not
almost the time to sleep let alone from
take concerts and indeed the idea of
fund is not to give you time to
to digest notions but to put you
so much under pressure that if
you survive ok then you deserve one
Graduation
so I live in a hotel of
suburbs when he arrived and I pass mine
days buying cappuccino coffee and
beer around Amsterdam so from
to be able to write the wifi line
so I can study and I can search
ads for renting a house but
rent a house in Amsterdam is
truly a business because trivially
if you have to rent a house you must call
to call you need sim in holland
to get a sim that serves the address
at home, however, remedy a sim and began
to call I called ve I swear
surely more than 300 ads have me
made to see a single house and of course
they did not rent it to me just one
Italian student all or we have
just stuff over 1000 euros a month
it takes one
a salary as a guarantee, in short, one
no crazy series and the situation
it becomes very disturbing and very little
time for me because they try to fra
arms in all possible ways
of course they even steal me in
hotel room passes more than a month me
I’m still looking for a house that
I can not find and I’m not even close to
find and the exams are upon us
in Holland you can afford to fail
practically an exam only in a year
because at the second rejection you already have
basically lost the year and I’m two years old
abroad I could not do it myself
in fact, I do not come from one
rich family and what I am
it hurt more during that era
the thought of the sacrifices that were
doing my parents to give me the
possibility to take a degree
abroad
so when inevitably bite the
first examination of my life called home
and I say I can not return to it
Italy
another little moment on the indoor
fortunately my parents tell me
not to give up and one day a little time
later on a site from which I would not have
even bought a bunch of bananas
I find the announcement of a boat house i
my companions of course immediately but where
go to disturbing it is very cold winter
But for the first time I have a bit
abandoned the fears and feel the thrill
of the adventure that a little saw me
belly, that is, internal of a little nine hundred
in reverse
I climb the ladder and go to live on one
I think if they do not give me a house
I’ll go live on a boat
here we are after a month more than
wandering finally within on
boat and when after long thinking do
the right choice
you feel it to skin and honestly say
on the boat it was delicious I did not have
windows but I had small portholes not
I had room was under water
However
the sunsets were spectacular and I could
have breakfast all morning
mornings on the bow and the neighborhood
it was a small hippy community that was
as close as possible to my village
I could have wished for a big city
European
in short, things start going well
it was a lighter way of living for
example my classmates
South Americans who speak of that period
so much the calibration universe and so much
we studied how is the year of his fake
still but for me thanks to this
small anti conventional gesture too
a bit of luck has become a year
wonderful and made me grow more
how many I could tell you today
for example my house almost became
immediately a meeting point for students
all series c were at least 15 20
boys students were talking
bridge fell in love as well they cooked
dishes from their countries hung
flags, in short, something that has me
made to enrich a lot and not
I could never do in a house
normal because it does not work
just a guy walks around
the bay and should not even play one
intercom beyonce has its already in the house
your
it was a lighter way of living and in
general I did not have to worry about one
lots of little things I would have
had to worry with a rectory
brick house and this left me a
lot of free energy to spend in
interpersonal relationships with in things that
I am passionate about in a short start
feel light like a balloon and
live on the water even I start to
try the pleasure of opening up to new ones
opportunity not to feel scared
from the complexity and the greatness of the
world but embrace it
no this and after
when when you put yourself in this kind
of mental state a small one happens
magic that starts doing a lot of things
much easier than that
that you would have never believed in spite of it
operated work I find the time for
to do many little things that I always had
wanted to do that we had never done
for example I had always wanted to write
but then I thought
ok, I’ll do it then or if not
I write well
or who knows what he’ll think of a guy
instead in Amsterdam I start writing
along with other guys scattered around
for the world like me and we put together
these articles of society and culture that
then we gather on this site which then is
the sign was called and that
this year came fourth in
macchianera awards as best web
agency italy I end up even a
be a street artist
I had always wanted to do it but not
I would have never done if he had stayed in the
my comfort zone
that day we made 7 euros that in
holland are three forks and a beer
baby at the end of the year thank god
I do not want any more exam and I graduate
let’s have a beautiful gigantic party
on the boat thank god we do not sink
so I can accept the proposal of
doctorate in the meantime I was made
from the high school of St. Anne and I can
do the job I wanted to do and I can
go back to do it in Italy at my house
because the boat was very cool but 9
August degrees are a tragedy
all this to tell you what
you probably know already
but that all too often there
forget that the moments of crisis
paradoxically they are blessings that with
a little courage can become gods
incredible moments of growth I will you
I want to leave with this last story
that is my favorite of the year was I
passed to amsterdam for those le
opportunities they have not had
of all the eccentric neighborhood that
luckily I had my favorite from
he
this gentleman over eighty who
he lived in the boat next to mine
when the sun came out a few times
he took the guitar himself
out playing and smoking a cigarette
surely he was born in London and
he was a programmer for Disney
at one point he had decided that London
it was no longer his home
too many people and therefore had bought one
boat and he had started living ad
Amsterdam where he had been living for 30 years
and so one day while I was doing
breakfast on the bow and he was giving
to feed the ducks under the boat
I tell him something he wanted to say to
time and that is simply certain, however
at your age different a boat alone
congratulations is not for everyone and he makes me
yes well since I left with the
my last girlfriend 80 years I can not
the more I find it hard to keep in place
the boat that he kept as it were
silverware for which sooner or later I will have to
unfortunately, however, selling it does not have
again because I like a lot of real
I feel free on the boat because if I do it
things do not always have to change the air
you can not always leave and in the morning
after
and I swear it happened I wake up
soon because there was one told us sunny
I go to the bow
I turned around and his boat was gone
he had left
thank you all
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