Hard life, bad people...
When we feel discontented and express our dissent about the
human race and life, actually, we state our incapacity up
against existence. We are uneasy in facing difficulties and we
tend not to acknowledge it, and most of the time, I would say
basely, we attach our failures to anything that is around us,
instead of admitting our incapacities.
The first step to improve ourselves is certainly to learn living
loyally and in the truth, qualities that bring to individualize
the “right behavior”. We agree that, depending on bad habits
acquired during one’s personal existence, this is not always
easy to do, but it’s the way to follow for a concrete change.
Going one step back, I think that for strong people life is
beautiful and amusing because it presents some difficulties, and
amusing are the different behaviors of man. Often a “strong”
person feels tenderness and compassion for weak and unable
people, who use the so-called spite because they don’t have at
their disposal any other less aggressive means.
Because of my “mountain” origins, I often use to tell my readers
examples taken from my life on the Valcamonica, Valtellina and
Swiss mountains, to support what I state.
As a matter of fact, I will tell you an episode of my life that
I think will be very enlightening. I have a friend who lives in
Celerina, Switzerland, close to the famous Saint Moritz (I
haven’t seen him very often lately - I confess I am, as lots of
people, victim of my job...), who sometimes invited me to spend
some beautiful days in the mountains with him. During one of
these “winter excursions” skiing, he was a guide to me, inviting
me to test most of the Swiss ski slopes.
Everybody knows the Swiss proud, one of the qualities (often
deserved) of these citizens, and this friend of mine showed me
how everything was well organized over there: ski slopes well
covered with snow, ski lifts worked perfectly, very comfortable
rest areas... Everything is perfectly organized and made with
mastery and excellence. Nothing to say...
We went on with our wonderful day and this friend of mine
decided to do the last ski slope. This time, after few meters, I
stopped, stupefied: the slope was terribly disconnected, the
snow badly beaten and there were lots of little bumps that
changed the conformity of the ground, differently from the other
wonderful slopes we skied until that moment.
I told him as a joke that that slope undermined Swiss
perfection. “But no my dear friend – he answered me – this slope
has been done in this way on purpose. You must know that here in
Switzerland people has got a high level of ski ability, even
because “we born with ski on our feet”, and so, we don’t really
enjoy easy slopes... actually, we get bored there. So, it’s been
thought to make a different slope, with increasing difficulties,
where experts can amuse and improve themselves.
His words deeply struck me and enlightened my point of view on
life difficulties. When one starts to learn skiing, a little
rise of the slope can discourage the beginner, but, with
experience and ability, one does not amuse and enjoy anymore on
the plain, and will look for descents and hard slopes to test
his ability and enjoy the sport. The pleasure is found in
difficulty and efforts: test and improve ourselves, face and win
difficulties.
Why should it be different related to other life aspects? I
could affirm that a strong man would like to wake up in the
morning and find some trouble. A strong man is a person who,
after accepting his limits and not giving the fault of his
inability to the mountain, learnt to work on himself, by
controlling himself. In general, it’s a person who became
comprehensive and kind also to beginners, because he knows that
despite of experience there is always something to learn.
by Amadio Bianchi