As dual citizen I witnessed the American Election Day and
today I received the ballot for a very important Italian Referendum about our Constitution
Changes to made.
Despite one fact being done and the other yet to do, both of
them have triggered my curiosity.
What happen when change is at work… but the results are not
what expected? How do we face with not wanted changes? Denying it? Protesting? (and
to who and for what?). Pretending nothing happened it’s allowed? Or just we get
caught in depression and dark thought? Blaming others? Whining all day long?
We believe that change is ours breathe, it just goes on and
on. There is no need to think about it or, worse, to avoid it.
However, like on these days to me, change seems going a
little further: toward sides I don’t like and I won’t. Of course the change
running in a political arena is not the same of the one you have to ride on
your life.
But how we can transform these very common attitudes in a
positive and more useful way? Oh that’s very interesting thing to coach around!
Collecting facts around the change. Refuse the odd analysis.
Change your glasses: what did not you see? What other people will describe it? What
do they say to explain themselves? Try to walk in their shoes can help.
Working on your emotions. How do you feel? How do you show
these feeling? Accepting all dark and depressing emotion can help too.
For sure one last work we need to cope with: how you deal
with impotence? How stay in a cage like an animal on the zoo, without losing
your soul? How you restore your energy to fuel hope?
That’s remind me of the way Clowns are used to cope with
failure. Playing it again and again until poetry, irony and imagination combined
together will make you and your audience crying with no knowledge about the
reason. Of course, that’s not very easy to do so!
