WHAT IS HAPPINESS? A JOURNEY: Conversations about life between an adult and a teenager - Softcover

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There are always two choices in life: accept the conditions we live in with their consequences or take responsibility for changing them.
We are theoretically prisoners of a society where doing the bare minimum and accepting the status quo and mediocrity, represent the only models with which to share our existence without trying to change it.
We are anchored to models that others have chosen for us, imposed by those who make pettiness their way of life. Fortunately, however, a good portion of the younger generation does not accept this. They desire to live and act; they want to change the old patterns.
We are talking about a generation that begins the path of preparation for the world of production knowing that it will not have any certainty and that, even if they graduate, in all probability they will have to adapt to models they are completely unfamiliar with or, worse still, not considered during their training. So, when they enter the world of work, they find themselves completely disoriented and unprepared.
So who will unlock the talent of the next generation? Who will help them find a purpose?
We can't just keep criticising young people – it's adults, us essentially, who have made them, possibly, fragile. We cannot think that it is always other peoples’ fault: it is we, with our old and obsolete schemes, who have created all this.
We have confused the authority of being a father with being a friend, we have facilitated their growth by giving them everything and making their ‘wonderful’ existence devoid of enthusiasm and exploration, therefore devoid of emotions and passions.
Only to labelling them, once they're adults, as lacking ‘energy’.
But who unleashed their talent?
Who explained to them what enthusiasm is?
Who made it clear to them how to connect consciousness with the real world?
Physicists say that a particle is to matter as a thought is to the brain.

Who will unleash their creativity?
Who will take responsibility for saying and actually demonstrating that their imagination can be set free?
If we don't keep in mind that history will only move forward if cultures and generations share knowledge and experiences, we won't allow them to become Inspirers of the new millennium rather than being just egocentric individuals devoted to conceit.
We need heretics and fools. We need people who are not afraid to face the new, who quest to discover something extraordinary.
So, what’s left to do?
Perhaps these young people seem to be less troublesome than previous generations, but they seem to have lost some of their energy, their desire to experiment and to change the world. They are sad and find no other way out than to adapt passively to the reality we are handing them. So let's help them create their independence, let's help them activate their social skills.
You have to sweat, listen to them without just judging, dialogue with them, create interest in them, inspire them.
This book is dedicated to the new generations, it is a sort of ‘manual’ to carry with you during the journey of life and then to be given to those who will come after.
But it's also for us adults to remember that we were all young and that we, too, had dreams and hopes in our pockets to pull out and show the world.
We all have the right to compose and listen to the soundtrack of our own existence, including them.

Happy reading,
Giustiniano La Vecchia

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