Descrizione dell’episodio
Goodmorning everybody and welcome back to Parole in Viaggio. Yes, one whole year has already gone from the last broadcasting, 12 months of journeys and meetings, sharing and requests. Indeed nothing has changed in all this time, if I look at who is around me, the situation is very similar, nothing of new, we are all attached to our habits. It’s not simply to try to change, the necessary effort is very big; and if we could try, the change of an habit takes a lot, a lot of time. But why is so hard to change? Maybe is simpler to deepen its meaning, that literally shows us that habit comes from latin Habitus, simply the clothes, the dress. Now, it’s not about how many clothes we change in a day, but the first reference is more conceptual: how many of us are ready to modify our style of clothes? I suppose few, very few. And why? because the clothes represent us, or maybe it’s better saying that we project on the clothes our idea and we desire that the other could understand who we are from a first panoramic look. He doesn’t know us but he already knows something about us. We are the clothes and they drive every day of our life. After waking up it’s time to go out, using a protecting defense created exactly by clothes. It’s when we entrust to an object what we are not able to face up to alone: the fear, the fear of judgement. And the fear is the engine that makes us running to protect us, with clothes and habits: more we create them, more we control the fear. More clothes are definite, more we suppress the sense of perturbation that persecutes us. Same path by car, same bar, same time, same market, same restaurant, same friends, same actions repeated till the end. And what happens if we don’t repeat an action? We feel guilty, “perhaps I should have done that stuff…” roles reverse, habits control our life, we can’t live without them, every one of us has an habit, as Elio e le storie tese says “I’m full of habits, don’t judge me, you are like me!” And if it’s tr
