often in life, I have been to suggest, propose to persons or institutions, the installation of trees, public and private places. Of any kind, provided trees. I screamed that desire, that inner need, in various places. I have often made the request for public areas (for Finally PISA), but I did it, too, for urban areas. I confess that I often have even gone so far as to piantumzione of small trees along the roads outside urban areas (on property free, but certainly not mine). But after a while all have been uprooted. Who if not rough men? I have often opposed the drastic pruning that some municipalities are the few existing trees in the city. Other times, then, to avoid the worst (drastically cutting of trees, cut geometric outliers) have even threatened to call Journalists and Carabinieri.
I often wonder, then, why? With all the problems of advancing desertification of land, with the advanced stage of development it is possible that the man fails to realize the importance of trees to its very survival.
Even in Hades, when you came down alive, Odysseus was able to admire, as is well known, the famous forests of Persephone. Made of poplar, willow, etc. ... Yes, even with willows, considered infertile, unable to bear fruit when ripe, but with their beautiful foliage. Sterile as the kingdom of the dead. Carriers of extinction of erotic desire. Persephone, in fact, is a virgin, chaste, bloodless, sterile as the willow does not produce fruit.
Trees of Life, life as men Life is dependent on the subject that covers it. It can be from the gods or by men. The life of is: happy, light, free from morality, from the pain and tragedy. Achilles, who in his heart he thought he was a god, after weeping plaited with wise old Priam, for the presence of pain (perceived by the death of Patroclus), he realizes that he simply ... a man. Not a god. In fact, they do not know of the pain, do not live in pain. They are always happy, while men conquer unhappiness. The gods know the happiness, but no disasters. And then when they interface with particularly embarrassing circumstances their reaction is light, ironic, we can say, nowadays, modern. It 's the case of Aphrodite, enthusiastically indulges in the arms of Ares, when Hephaestus, the husband can no longer ... to speak with his heart. But despite the laughable cobwebs asked in vain around the bed of Hephaestus, that fact shall not have any real trouble (If not for the transfer to a distant site where be helped by the authorities thanks to a warm bath and after anointing with precious scented oils immortal). All under the ironic smile of Apollo and Hermes (which confirms that famous song would have approved of being in the place of Ares). This means that for the life of the gods is not affected, in any way by any tragedy.
The same distraction of Aphrodite transferred to men, however, involves the explosion of passions, grudges, violent reactions, which can often lead to conflict unprecedented. As has happened to the beautiful Helen, drawn to Paris, despite the presence of Menelaus (her husband). Distraction that led to the Trojan War, with thousands of deaths in the Peloponnese.
In its own way also the famous "excluded" of Pirandello was a little a little Penelope Aphrodite ...
Perhaps, over time, the thinking of men (their lives), will tend increasingly to approach, so asymptotic to the thinking of the gods. And, at least, this trend will lead to the coincidence of the two distinct ways.
It 'true that the distance between these two different visions of life (from gods and men) is much more marked in the Islamic world that the Christianized Western world. For the different cultures (The word tolerance is virtually unknown among certain peoples) and the different way of looking ... women. All
to highlight, with Homer, with Pericles and Pirandello, social function, for better or for worse, the emancipation of women. Women from whom all men depend.
we like it or not we want to admit ...
Carpe diem If you're just a man, a man who loves ephemeral mortal things, you know that your condition depends on luck, good or bad, that every day someone gives you. Experience the everyday reality, accept everything in life, accept whatever there is. Remember that, deliberately or by chance, we are hungry, so we are forced to get food, but our stomach, with his calls, it makes us ... forget the pain. But life is not just the belly. E ', too, intellect, thoughts, emotions, thoughts, mind, inner life. Aspects that lead us to the curiosity, the desire for knowledge of experiments in search of new lands. Faced with such inner promptings, we are urged to act ... without limits. Often, however, there are inhibitions, brought by the conditions boundary, which we hold. In every man acts at this point, your limit of kairos (Intuition) of very short duration. In life it is essential to act at the right time and in the right way before the time flies .... And 'good and just take this moment, exactly, no ... indulge to excess. Yes, because without control, without measure, the kairos hardly fades and returns ... a second time ... carpe diem.
