A house is like having a coordinated primary, a red dot on the map, a flag to hold on. Look for a home is the first step in ' statement and the construction of identity, today as yesterday. Means to choose where to continue their lives and possibly like.
accounts for half of any journey, the success of any return. And 'the thrust of those who still did not stop. As I said Yoshi, then a Chinese peasant who was traveling approximately thirty three years by means of land after crossing 24 countries and three continents, "having crossed all these lives, now I want to start mine. "
That is starting to build something to leave to posterity, that they are words, pictures, memories, children, and artifacts. The sense of the great things you can bundle in these apparently simple goals that are born and flourish from a house.
Today it houses many through fortunately, near and far, solitary and crowded, family and strangers, helping you understand what mark you do not want to become and what will be missed. Each house, as a person is linked to a history of multiple, with the events of the soul. The houses of the friends lived in the same way, we can not forget and are our reference constellation, made up of habits, smells and noises during the morning. So when you return "home" really means the group of houses that we regularly recur, suggesting that the return "home" matches a portion of the larger territory of the four walls.
In Italy surely this identification between "home" and groups of houses is very stable, almost a certainty, the Italians have a record represented by the number of homeowners. In fact, according to ISTAT figures about seven out of ten families are owners of the house in which they live. Only two out of ten families pay the rent, and about ten per cent live in a beneficial interest or royalty-free, in the second house in case of in-laws.
A nation of property owners so the facts can be seen by the care with which they maintained the interiors of homes of the main object always investment, first level of expenditure for families and among the most important assets that parents seek to leave or give to children. Instead, when the house is not owned by the furniture is old, the works of m aintenance are postponed, there indifference to a dirty wall.
Such a situation should also feed another attitude: 's attachment to the territory. The possession of the house should lead to a natural impulse towards the surrounding environment, such a defense of the territory in which we live and where their children will live, but too often the contradiction was looking back on home happy with their living and regardless of landscape to the window that was ruined, just by other people's houses.
In Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk covering all the houses of his life re-weave the fabric of the stories he has crossed and which are intertwined with that of the city. Descriptions of houses full of memories they play a major role images from windows, balconies and windowsills, a journey marked by indelible images and primal as the counting ships on the Bosphorus, the gaze cast down on the streets, windows that open onto the intimate landscapes recalling that the perspective from his window at home is a perspective on the world.
"When we overcome the threshold of our door as if there is a clear boundary, two different worlds, between outside and inside, between the place of our loved ones and with more public spaces, roads, services, in short, in general, the territory of the other .
So often you go the wax on the floor of the house remaining indifferent to the curb in front of holes and full of dog shit. He lost the healthy habit of sweeping the streets, which turned- in relief roads, are all and none. He lost the concept that the dead represents.
"When a tradition is not able to transformed into a system of rules recognized, land, community life, respect for history as we take inspiration from which humus can not place themselves at the center of strategic choices and the collective life. [...] We are accustomed to, as would the scholar Aldo Bonomi , to look more to history than to specific spaces, most of our homes that the squares where daily transit distracted, waiting to return home .
In other words, the European supports the thesis of a split between public ethics and private: the private space has greater value and must be protected even at the cost of sacrificing the public. Two values \u200b\u200bthat are in contrast, but that should not necessarily be. Nobody asked to give up their private space (and the consequent freedom) in favor of the public, nor can destroy the public in the name of a subdivision private interests. To heal this breach of the rules are sufficient.
If you need to start building something, therefore it is natural to start from "home", new or old it is, and its meaning.
E 'natural pleasure from start to come back to stay, to enjoy their own thoughts, listen to those who have something to share. And 'the pleasure to feel safe in walls where it is not necessary to be indiscrete. It 's the place from which to start each time you need to start , the base camp of reference for those who thought to do without.
The home is a peaceful place that allows the development of thought after the travel experience.
E 'box on the territory that constitutes our identity, without the first you can not get to the second, is the place where it will reinforce the relationships that are map of our relations and therefore of ourselves.
Because, ultimately, the other purpose of this blog is to understand where we are going, then what will be our home, how can we choose how we want and where. That is all the questions that recur to every generation that passes from youth to maturity, the same questions that arise in this generation also open and globalized that will formulate new answers to old questions. Trying to see through the window something to be proud of.
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