Saggio7 - Sylvia Black 18y.o
THE EUROPE THAT I WOULD LIKE
"The Europe that I would like", (but) why is Man so insatiable?The Europe that I want is already here.
Maybe not everything, but there is not much missing.
However strange it might seem, it only needed a few small steps on the part of a few small European ministers to transform what I originally saw as a conglomeration of little states into a vast plain on which one can freely move.
Obviously, most Europeans would not know be able to tell you what I am talking about, or only on theoretical lines, and that is understandable given the century that has just passed with its two World Wars. But those times are behind us.
With this I don't want to say that I live in a perfumed and perfect world; on the contrary, there are always multiple and new problems to face, because their origins havn't changed yet. But today I can choose whether to take a 'plane or a train and move freely around inside this huge state which was once just a series of unclimbable mountains.
Today I can enjoy sitting at a table and have the company of an almond-eyed boy, a dark-skinned girl, or blond young people with eyes the colour of ice, and the wonderful condiment of smiles all round. And to speak, to compare, and soon to be inviting one another to visit our respective home countries to be able to taste something that no words can ever be able to describe. And the one price to pay for all this, apart from travel costs which are diminishing day by day, is the tiredness that one accumulates after a trip so long that my mind is unable to take it all in.
In exchange, I receive wonders, friendships, culture, affection and, if that were not all, I grow up whilst I am doing it.
I grow up in a way that no-one ever before me could possibly imagine.
And all this is nothing else but the beginning of a world that is getting smaller and smaller under the shadow of my pleasure to be living in it.
Sylvia Black
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