This morning despite the fact that it was Saturday, I woke up early to come to the hospital for tests….<\/p>\n
This is not the first time of course that I’ve come to Gemelli in recent months, but this morning, as I was in the waiting room, waiting to do the withdrawals, looking at all the people who were around me, all at a distance and strictly wearing masks, I thought back to seventeen years ago when I had the transplant.<\/p>\n
Even then I had to wear the mask \ud83d\ude37 and even when I was discharged, for quite some time, when I went out, when I went shopping, when I went to pick up my children from school … I had to wear the surgical mask. Today… I’ve been wearing the mask for months just about everywhere exactly like everyone else. I have studied and teach Neurolinguistic Programming and know that “the map is not the territory.”
\nI just didn’t tolerate it then, either physically or psychologically; it made me feel sick, different, and almost out of rebellion at a certain moment I said STOP !<\/em> and stopped using it.<\/p>\n
\nIt’s not even an annoyance anymore, not so much at least. Neither physical nor psychological.
\nIt doesn’t make me feel sick, on the contrary … it makes me feel protected and makes me feel that besides me I protect those around me. Whoever that may be.
\nAnd so yes, I have been thinking about how to change.
\nFiorella Mannoia’s song says
\n“How you change not to die
\nHow you change for love
\nHow you change not to suffer
\nHow you change to start over… <\/p>\n
\nIt is also true that the “territory is not the territory.”
\nBecause it changes. Constantly and faster and faster.
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