Summer Reading Contest Winner Week 1: On ‘To Enjoy Life More, Embrace Anticipation’

To take pleasure in lifetime extra, embrace anticipation

“Looking ahead to something can be nearly as very good as enduring it” this is the very first sentence of the write-up “To delight in lifestyle far more, embrace anticipation” and it is the 1 that has remained most etched in my brain, soon after examining it I assumed: is it real?.

I went again in time, precisely in the course of my next year of center faculty, my Italian teacher was studying a poem by one of the finest Italian writers: Giacomo Leopardi.

The title was “Il sabato del villaggio” (Saturday night time in the village) and talked about how very tempting the notion of ​​Sunday was, but not so considerably Sunday by itself.

[In the poem,] we are at the commencing of 1800 in a modest village, it is a tranquil Saturday evening, everybody is fortunately waiting for the subsequent day, the working day of relaxation: the youngsters cackle, the maidens sing, and the staff return from function laughing. It is the happiest day of the week and that is due to the fact the up coming working day the passing of the hours will deliver far more and much more sadness, and absolutely everyone will start off contemplating about Monday’s work.

I don’t forget wondering through that reading through that there was nothing at all far more genuine: waiting for a joyful party brings us much more pleasure than the event by itself.

So I talk to myself, is it truly worth it? We reside daily life ready for content moments in a kind of dreaming trance, but then, when all those events finally arrive, we neglect to really dwell them. Is this what we have to aspire to? Should not we just cease fantasizing about the upcoming and start out embracing the current?