Some considerations around the end and beginning of the year
Brunella Lionetti
30 January 2025
When I participate in demonstrations for peace, I have to overcome my skepticism, which often prompts me to stop and ask myself and others a simple yet blunt question: “What’s the point?” Images from the daily news immediately come to mind. We have become all too accustomed to seeing these images, even though they depict the horrors of destruction and death that dominate our world. I have to breathe deeply and repeatedly – like when you gasp for air, desperately looking for oxygen as if you were suffocating -, before I can open the window in that room where my gloomy thoughts want me locked up, making me believe that
