“Human
passions have mysterious ways,
in children as well as grown-ups. Those
affected by them can't explain them, and
those who haven't
known them have no
understanding of them at all”.
MICHAEL
ENDE,
‘The Neverending Story’
Human passions are something that acts
beyond political boundaries and cultural differences. Human passions
do not make distinctions of age, social status, or school grades.
Human passions do not divide us on the basis of our virtues or
defects. They wrap us all together in a huge hug.
You can run after a ball with soccer
cleats or with shower slippers, it does not matter! What it does
matter is what you can identically read in the eyes of all the
playing children and adults: passion! A passion, which reflects in the shouts
and songs of the fans. An old man observes a child small like a cork
dodging a kind of gorilla-man. Suddenly he springs back in the past,
and turns to be a primary school student again.
Very less is needed: a rope
and two supports… and that’s it! A high spring competition is
ready! An iron ring attached to a pole… and that’s a basket
field. Somebody is playing with a long skirt, somebody barefoot,
somebody else while running is holding with a hand the too large
trousers borrowed from the big brother.
It is music to hear them laugh. Every
child has the right to a marvelous life.
