All’s well that ends well. The child who walked six kilometers in San Vito di Cadore on a cold snowy day because he was not authorized to get on the bus by the driver because he did not have the right ticket, will be invited to watch the Olympic competitions. The bus driver met that child’s family, he explained how things went that day, he apologized to the child and to those two parents. Common sense, good education and the ability to understand each other prevailed. An event that made the news for its negativity, today makes us reflect for the exact opposite. That is, people, after making a mistake, know how to fix it. That forgiveness makes you feel better than resentment. That sometimes things happen to us that we don’t want to happen. But life often comes unexpectedly and instead of preventing a problem, it forces you to enter into it and suffer its consequences and unwanted effects.
Human beings know how to work as a team and not just a pack. They have empathy. They have at their disposal the language that allows us to explain what we feel, what we do, why sometimes we act differently than we would like or should. I believe that the beauty of this story lies in the fact that what could have turned into a media pillory event instead became an opportunity to show how real life allows us to “function” much better than what happens in virtual life.
Hateful and malicious comments are daily thrown like stones at everything and everyone, when something happens that we consider “negative”. Everyone turns into a judge, lashes out against the guilty, comments knowing almost nothing about what the protagonists of a story feel, live and feel emotionally. The pathology of the “keyboard lion” is very frequent today and has unaccustomed us to good manners, empathy and respect.. It has eroded that humanity which made it possible, in many complex situations, to find the ability to deal with them by recomposing the pieces of a crazy puzzle, without fuss. Simply talking to each other, looking each other in the eyes, apologizing. This happened in the province of Belluno between two parents and a bus driver who experienced an episode full of fatigue and discomfort, making it an opportunity to show the world that “making peace” is a matter of desire and will, not of power and arrogance.
