Inside the Family

Human existence moves between the dark and painful interpretation of previous experiences and the openness to possible new scenarios filled with light. In fact, each of us is a “star”: he is important, has its own place in the world and is irreducible. Feeling as a “star”, nonetheless, is the product of our parents’ lessons in love and tenderness. Consequently, in order to become ourselves, we need to let our origins rest and to redesign ourselves as “persons” in solidarity with the universe. Being “inside the family” means to be able to preserve “the family from within”. The culture of stability is therefore a specific educational proposal to give back to family life the most authentic sense of its own “consistency”: to rediscover the times of rest and the spaces of conviviality. “Being together” is the essential part of being-in-family. If social policies, employment dynamics and parental culture will not contribute to guarantee families a return to “togetherness”, the future society will be inhabited by “dim stars”, by increasingly lonely people, coming from the “domestic deserts” of today and of a forthcoming tomorrow.