We receive and publish the letter from a citizen who wrote to our editorial staff, on the topic of travel and the educational and training importance of the latter.
“The arrival of the low-cost airline Ryanair to Reggio Calabria has opened a new season for our city, amidst the hopes and doubts of the residents.
The social and cultural importance of voyage fortunately it is not a topic of discussion, but for a long time the possibility of doing so was: Reggio, an isolated city, today has a new opportunity for momentum to be known throughout the world and the people of Reggio have the advantage of being able to live new life experiences based directly from their city.
The educational and training impact of the trip, in this regard, will not only allow the growth of each of us, but above all it will generate social benefit for the community: learning and knowing the virtues and defects of other realities, similar or not to ours, will stimulate awareness and new ideas and it will improve our civic sense.
I want to focus on this last point which, unfortunately, I believe is fundamental to overcoming the superficiality of the common thought of us people from Reggio which, often, turned out to be condemned to mediocrity. The hope is that the knowledge of new realities, urban and peripheral, can trigger the beginning of the end of getting used to the worst: many practices and uses common to us must no longer be accepted. Mature in us a different civic sense can, and must, take our Reggio forward.
The appeal What I want to do to citizens is: let’s be proactive. We need to say enough to the chronic defeatism that continues to dominate our chatter: “but I don’t measure Milanu”, “who has to live in Tirana”, “Marseille is gross”, “in Berlin you die ru friddu”…
I am trivial considerations which should remain in the banality, but although common they require reflection on our approach to the new, to the stimulus, to the opportunity.
Feeling better, “already arrived”, in addition to not respecting reality, does not help city development. To date, unfortunately, the objectivity of the facts condemns us to the last places in terms of attractiveness (and the rankings national are a clear indication of this), we are not competitive even compared to other entities even closer to us. In this regard, it is necessary to shake off the ambitions of mediocrity and, with humility, accept the reality of the facts and grow individually, so that we can finally be society.
The scarcity of the available means that society offers us to improve, although partly true, must not be one justification. Today we have a new tool to lift us up, and it suddenly fell “from the sky” to us. Let’s exploit it.
I leave this brief reflection to you, to us, in the hope that it can be grasped in the genuineness of its terms and content, placing a final point with an aphorism by Oscar Wilde:
“Travel improves the mind wonderfully and eliminates our prejudices.
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