MY NATIONALITY DOES NOT DEFINE WHO I AM.
I was born in Italy, where I am writing this post, and my parents grew up here. I guess I am Italian but my head is always elsewhere.
I prefer speaking English rather than my native language. I do like to sleep but I also like to get things done which means I do not sleep after lunch like Italians do. I like pasta but my favorite dish is not Spaghetti Alla Bolognese. I love going to the beach but I would never live in a city like the one I go to every summer. I do drink cappuccinos in the morning but if I could choose I would also have something else for breakfast, like pancakes.
I am not throwing shade to my home country, I love Italy, it is a beautiful place. I just find it reducing to say that I am Italian. I am not Italian, I am Cristian. I watch movies in their original language, I love Mexican food and I could not care less about soccer. I like to believe that I am a bit of everything. Even though I love Italy I do not like to speak about it as if it was the greatest country in the whole world, I believe there is something we can learn in every country. There is something that other people are better at than others, it is just the way it is. There are a lot of things I can not agree with in Italy, therefore I find myself in need to see how it works elsewhere.
I am free of responsibilities at the moment and I want to take off with my own wings and see the world, even if Italy was really the best country in the whole planet, I do not care, I have to see the world before I can compare places to one another. I do not like people who speak about things they do not know anything of.
I will probably settle down somewhere in the future, I will not be a nomad forever but at the moment I like to travel around even though all I earn I have to spend and save basically nothing. This is how I think life has to be lived. Time is precious and we do not know what tomorrow holds. We can not postpone things that we can do today. How do Damon and Jo say? Shut up and go!
- Cristian
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- Italiano: LA MIA NAZIONALITÀ NON DEFINISCE CHI SONO
- Español: Mi nacionalidad no me define
- Français: MA NATIONALITÉ NE DÉFINIT PAS QUI JE SUIS.
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