We thought that we had reached the end of a terrible pandemic, that we had achieved calm and stability, but instead we were catapulted into a new situation that was terrible, unimaginable and psychologically devastating for all of us.
It seems as if the suffering we have experienced so far has not been enough, so much so that someone with enormous powers, at the limit of what is acceptable, has decided to put us to the test again.
The ongoing Russia-Ukraine war confronts us with an incomprehensible and definitely not acceptable scenario: the past, our history, seems not to have taught us enough.
What consequences can this have on our minds, our stability, our balance and our lives? What else can happen to us?
There will certainly be major problems caused by confrontation with something that is difficult to mentalize. War can neither be explained nor accepted, but we know that it brings with it harmful consequences and trauma.
If we had hoped to have finally achieved good security, perhaps everything is called into question again.
Individuals are afraid, the elderly relive ancient pain, families fear for their present but above all for the future of their children, teenagers do not know what will happen and children do not understand.
We then wonder, and rightly so, whether suffering can ever be understood, whether it can ever make sense. In fact, the certainty of a negative answer is clear, it becomes the only security within such a disastrous and destabilising scenario.
We must try to strengthen the few remaining certainties, to unite around important values and to make sense again within such a disturbing and unhealthy framework.
Values will be our strength, we need to keep a healthy and firm grip on optimism and perhaps we really need to take stock and take stock of what makes sense, what matters to us and what can give us security.
We have lived for too long on the basis of image, money and appearance alone, and perhaps today more than ever it is good to remember that value is given by something else: all is not lost, even within the unexpected and the terrible we can, indeed we must, find a certain guide, a light, a possibility of landing and salvation.
It is said that when the sea is stormy we should stop, because trying to swim would make us drink with negative consequences.
The invitation then becomes to float along with the current, even if it is rough and turbulent, waiting for it all to subside, without forgetting who we are, what our roots are and what our strengths still are.
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