From Fakir to 730 - Elena Manzoni - E-Book

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Elena Manzoni

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Beschreibung

After seven years, not passed in Tibet, nor with Brad Pitt, but tracing a path of life through impossible talks and many many thoughts, the thirty year old Elly sums up and draws a comic portrait – a bit bitter for her generation, called to choose between a life without color and creativity and its biggest passion, the only one capable of changing the world: the passion of being themselves!The message is simple, but powerful: rubbles are the ideal ground on which to build the most beautiful world you can imagine: YOUR world!When the page is blank, it’s your time to write the story. You are not a spectator, but the director and the star!

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 Summary

 

 

May this first book of mine help us, young people, understand that the world is our stage,that life is here for us, and that no one’s able to stop the expressive power of the individual.

 

May it encourage us to think more clearly, to question everything, to be curious, to live our feelings and express them!

 

Genius is in eachof us, no one doesn’t have it,and every contribution, however small it is, is still unique!

Thanks to…

 

It’s difficult to name all those to whom I ought a thanks, for I ought to mention one by one all the characters of the book, for having inspired me.

 

Apart from them, I have the joy of thanking:

 

Friends that have been close to me, repeating me every day that I would have made it.

My mother who has taken the trouble to be my editor.

Max Bizzozzero, a fantastic graphic designer, who did the cover of the Fakir who is, as a reflection, an accountant.

Ivano Mingotti who translate in English my book, originally written in Italian.

All of you who’ll read this book and who will contribute to its disclosure, since you will be the real catalysts of my dream!

Introduction

“Stay hungry, stay foolish!”

Steve Jobs

 

A book is born within the heart, then it projects itself in the author’s head, finally flying on the computer keys, becoming text.

When a book comes to the world, you go through a euphoric and at the same time doubtful phase, as when a mother leaves a child alone for his first time. On one side, there’s the happiness of having brought him to the autonomy needed to stand out his first flight, on the other the fear that the world will not accept him, that he will lose confidence facing bad words, which can cause him mortifying pain. But in the end, the parents must let their children go to fight their own battles for the conquest of their own space in the world, for their identity.

My “Fakir”, as I jokingly call this little piece of literature, is really afraid of leaving his home.

He looks at me from his small pages and asks me:

“Will they like me? What do I have that the others thousand novels don’t? Many are bigger than me, deeper than me, more fun than me, more cultural than me, have stronger topics, intimidate more. Why would anyone read me and maybe even recommend me to others? “

I tell him the truth, as I always do to myself:

“Maybe you won’t be liked by everyone, but you’ll be liked ny those who have an emotional affinity with you, because you do not have a precise topic, you are not just a text; you are experience! So, my Fakir, you are not categorized into a genre, because you do not have the characteristics of the most, but you have one feature that is very difficult to find: you’re authentic!”

My intention is to launch a challenge to listen.

Read this booklet, people! It’s only of a few pages! Think about it, then recommend it to others, even to people really different from you, of other fields and places!

What I want to achieve is an emotional word of mouth, which could set in motion two virtuous mechanisms: the curiosity that generates a willingness to listen to anything you don’t know, like the words of a certain Elena Manzoni, and an empathic reaction to what my experiences will arouse in you.

My goal is to create insights, and conclusions – even if different from mine - to awaken the desire to think about the things that we go through and that we do, and not just to let us go with the flow; or maybe just continue to let it carry us, but in a conscious way.

My namesake Manzoni, the artist, the writer, put his poop in a vacuum and named it “Artist’s Shit”, revolutionizing every rule and concept art hitherto expressed.

I rebuke his concept of novelty in a soft way, suggesting a book with a small but beautiful, dense content, true and sometimes comic and bitter, written in a very easy way and not with sophisticated words, because, being an experience, it’s not subject to the strict rules of style.

Get up people, listen to your emotions, open yourselves to this reading experience, giving a chance to this fakir, who has already eaten enough nails!

Have a good read,with affection, to all of you.

Elly

PART ONE

The past

 

Fantasia

“You were not made to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge “

Dante Alighieri

 

For those who, like me, were born in the 80’s, or for parents of children or young people of that time, “The Neverending Story” is certainly not an unknown film.

The plot, in my opinion, is more topical, perhaps, nowadays than then.

It tells the story of a kingdom called Fantasia, in which a mysterious force called Nothing, that engulfs and destroys all that lies before it, suddenly takes hold. The young warrior Atreyu is committed to defeat the Nothing to save the kingdom and his empress through many difficult trials. Only after successfully having a confrontation with his true self, or with his soul, he arrives in front of the Oracle of the South - which also is almost destroyed by the Nothing - that tells him to make something soon. Atreyu eventually manages to give a new name to the Empress and to free the dying Fantasia from the Nothing.

The moral of the film is that it is easy to control whoever does not believe in anything, and that without any fantasy or dream the world can not exist.

If you stop believing that it is worth fighting to be valuable people, to improve ourselves every day and realize our dreams, then the battle is lost.

We live in strange times: all that had always been considered inviolable and certain, today is rapidly crumbling before our horrified eyes.

“We must be quick, we do not know how much longer we could resist …!” This phrase can be read again and again, in recent years, on several publications, from newspapers to appended weekly newspaper devoted to economics and even politics.

Titles of cover like “Hurry up and saved Italy!”, “We need to hurry and get the economy going!”, “We need to act fast!”, have dominated in all their forms everywhere, standing out also in election campaigns.

I will then make the Oracle of Fantasia’s words mine, and turn to the plethora of young Atreyu listening: “Hurry! Listen to your dreams, yell what you need, imagine a different world if you do not like the current one, and try it all to ensure that reality will become the mirror of your imagination!”

The world can be improved; there’s already something very good.

Just stop to watch a sunset, a child smiles, a grandmother who tells a story to the grandson on his stroller: it’s wonderful!

But you can do more!

Let’s not give ourselves up to the system, do not believe that all is lost, because the entire realm of Fantasia has been reborn from a grain of sand, so our world, that already has many more grains, is on a good way!

I compare every day with my weaknesses and fragility, because I realized that only those who see room for improvement in himself can then, at a later stage, possibly be able to be a catalyst for change for others, and then, in a greater scale, for the world.

 

Food for thought

Imagination and dreams are as important as material achievements, because they are their portals.

Graduation

“I wanted to, always wanted to, strongly wanted to.”

Vittorio Alfieri

Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!

Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!

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Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!

Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!

Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!

Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!