How will you smile?
First of all, I think that I, as many others, will smile more intensely, finding pleasure in the countless daily practices we used to take for granted before the pandemic.
Deprivation usually exerts this effect.
After that, even if I’m not expecting any immediate tangible change – especially in the phase in which the priority will be to recover the economic assets – I will be more optimistic and smiling about the future.
Why? Because I’m convinced that the younger generation, unfortunately forced – while growing up – to face a context in which the cause and effect paradigm and the consequence of individual behaviour towards the community have been topics of daily discussion for everybody, will be better equipped and more responsible.
Adolescents have lived their disconcerting war scenario even if they haven’t suffered the traumatic and devastating aspects of an actual war.
I will smile trustingly, convinced that there will be a change with regard to the sensation of being in a world on the edge of a precipice.
It will be a gentle and prolonged-release change, but it will happen.
