thirty-six years and when I just graduated, they asked me why I decided to enroll in the degree course in Astronomy, I always answered that in Given that 'grow up' I wanted to teach physics, I would have been able to give this freak. "So - I explained to everyone - for the education that is comparable to that degree in physics."
Put that way, my choice has never been challenged by my parents. The question "... and then that'll work? "had a response and the circle was closing. Just graduated, after a few months of teaching in the province of Bologna, I ran away from schools, taking refuge in Rome, the Institute of Interplanetary Space Physics.
In time then I analyzed the best choice because of my studies, finding a reply from the multi-faceted response that includes also a more intimate setting. I had never told anyone before, fearing that the eyes of others as a criterion would appear too insignificant to justify such an important decision.
Until something happened that forced me to revise my conclusions ...
few Sundays ago, with my mother, I found myself case for a very nice photo exhibition, organized by a group of amateur astronomers.
The place was particularly striking: the Swabian castle of Termoli, which overlooks the sea and where you can see San Salvo (Chieti province of the country where I was born). On the terrace that runs all around the tower had been set up telescopes.
still see the picture I discovered with some dismay, that my mother had never looked up in any one summer night to see the light stripe of the Milky Way, nor had he placed the eye on the eyepiece of a telescope ( I confess: I do not own one, I never asked for a birthday gift ...). So I immediately together on the terrace and, in order, we have seen with the moon, the Orion nebula and finally Saturn.
My mother was literally struck by this vision, as it happened to me the first time I observed Saturn and its rings through a telescope (I was already in its third year University). I do not know why, but see 'direct drive' the rings of Saturn focused a few inches from your nose arouses great emotion and disbelief ... almost as if our brain did not accept that that bright dot in the sky may have a dimension of its own, more extended and even different from the perfect and 'incorruptible' spherical shape ...
Once the visit, we returned home. We had dinner together chatting about various things, but making no reference to the show.
E 'was just before going to sleep that I've caused to think again about why I chose this profession. Before going to bed my mother made me a very convoluted speech, which I was immediately impressed because her primary school teacher now retired, has always expressed his thoughts in a schematic way.
not remember his exact words, however, the concept was as follows: If you had the chance to see the sky when he was younger, he would have certainly done my own studies. So unconsciously ("very unconsciously "as she admitted) she was right to influence my choice.
So finally he had found the explanation of why I started this profession, which had never fully understood.
The funny thing is (and is why I laughed so much that night!) That I had come to the conclusion that he had undertaken such studies because they represent the farthest thing from my mother! Something to her (which has always so deeply, although unintentionally, influenced much of my life, marking the time and priorities) certainly could not 'put your mouth'. And instead ... looks a bit '... even then caso non era stato così!
Non fraintendetemi: sebbene abbiamo un rapporto… uhmm, come dire? abbastanza ‘articolato’, oltre a nutrire per lei un amore profondo, l’ho sempre ammirata come donna.
Anche lei si è trovata in qualche modo, fra gli anni settanta e ottanta, in un certo contesto sociale e geografico, ad essere una ‘pioniera’. A quel tempo nel nostro centro-sud il termine ‘pari opportunità’ era totalmente sconosciuto, e nell’immaginario maschile esistevano solo le femministe o le casalinghe. Mia madre invece non ha mai smesso di lavorare, neanche quando a distanza di due anni l’uno dall’altro, le sono arrivati quattro figli.
Not hardly ever comes out on the street alone, since it is not covered by education very severe impartitale from my grandmother. However, at seventy, my mother knows how to use the internet much better than me! Search in a confident way to find recipes that unknown to her, to search for definitions impossible puzzle of the week, to read the latest developments on the site of our country, to communicate with children who have found work and love beyond the borders Italian.
Francesca Altieri
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