Some life stories you come across, even when they come from people you don’t know, strike hard and leave a deep mark in your heart. The emotion you feel is genuine, because heroic evidence of normalcy can work as incentives to make you a better person. The story of Natascia and Arsenio told in today’s “Schiaffo” can serve as an example: choosing life without ever giving up, creating a family and bringing children into the world against all rationalizations and recommendations of the ubiquitous science wizards: something that isn’t taken for granted any longer. In a society marked by ruthless individualism and boorish egoism, a regular woman chooses to risk everything, in order to be able to carry two splendid lives in her womb.
This is the gift of motherhood. Many cannot explain it, but those who experience it speak of an internal force that crosses every boundary and makes up for every kind of emptiness. One can even feel ready to jeopardize one’s own physical integrity, in order to be able, as Natascia explained to us, to face the world differently and look at it with the eyes of the heart and soul.
Stories like these never make it to the headlines, because a society ruled by perfectionism will only pay attention to plastic representations of an artificial existence or limit itself to the list of human tragedies. The examples provided by women like Natascia have become, therefore, increasingly rarer, unlike the current image of a human family emptied of values, ideals and meaningful choices, which stands for an expanding cultural and moral impoverishment. This story can also help to inspire those institutions that are expected to support certain acts of courage. However, in this last case, one ought to exercise the virtue of hope. Otherwise, “omnia vincit amor…”, “Love conquers everything.”
Translation provided by ProLingua
