Still water run deep:
I've tooked this picture just yesterday afternoon, but if I did took it 50 years agoabd you couldn't have nootice the difference !
Do you know why? Because them in the mean time haven't change!

"Since I've moved down here the best part of the whole experience has still probably been the few weeks spent with Bruno up in Cairns,

Where more as two old friends than brothers we were used to embark on endless chat that would easily last entire nights,
during with the topic of our conversation would change every twenty minutes or some from one to another and then BANG ! back
Ranging (and often raging) from politics to movies, from economy to music, from sex to religion and so on...
Often agreeing as often as we didn't : ) so much and often so our flatmates believed we were fighting (often staring at us speechless : )
good memory indeed!"

Well what yesterday afternoon happened in front of my place here in Sydney strongly remind me about me and my brother fiercely chatting during our sleepless nights with the only difference I was with a bunch of young fellas with an average age of nearly 80yo! But with a sharp mind I hardly find in people of my age!
I was so lucky that after a jogging on my way home I met John who moved in Australia 56 years ago right from Italy, so when he find out I'm from there too, here that he start to share with me the highlits of his life and I was so eager to listen because John was honest and like a living Jake La Motta roll out what made his life great and what miserable revealing to be still a good enterteiner!
He did brook often our conversation starting to sing "Que Sera Sera" or pulling out of his sleeve a funny joke!
Aik on the other hand is happy-go-lucky person and you are free to not believe me but from his 80 years is one of the most funny person I've meet so far~! And in combination with the italian bloke the two of them were improvising a two men show just with miself as lonely standing audience!

We did debate to whom had been the real king of rock and roll (if Bill Haley or Elvis Presley), or about the new cinema standard or better NO standard at all! But apart from those kind of things we spoke about the situation of nowdays fact and the both of them did show me an outstanding intelligence about what it's happening about the world we are living in and the possible solution to make it better, we agree on many points, and the most important are the following:

• Why travelling happend to see inimagginable poor children with a disarming smile which we can find in western kids? We think that because one of our biggest mistake and one of the first lesson our children learn from us, is "Took it for granted" that's a big mistake that's a huge misunderstaniding how we are "Standing on the Giants Shoulders" without with our own endless selfish would crumble miserably!
• We spoke a lot about immigration and what make country rich or poor! And we realize that (as smarter people of us realized befor) that some country are lucky and some are not! We fear our future... I actually fear much more then my fellows (obviously) but we agreed that if 3 old friends on the wayside relize what went wrong is easy to believe that people with a large better education and high better points of view not just saw all that before, but even plan it, so the question is WHY ?

The easy answer is that GREEDINESS is what human beings are made off

link to the italian version on Youtube here.

And when again John start with his feeling how we are facing the scenario of a new World War (singing in Italian "Non ce' il due senza il tre" [there isn't any two without three] making shivering an even elderly hungarian woman whom by that point did join the three of us : )
To this tragic-comic sketch our friend Aik point out how that it's already on because the whole world is running out of money! And it's pretty true!

Now the conclusion about my new friends are that we should in primis respect whom came before us, try to understand what make things the way they are and what we can do to change for the better.

From myself I'm happy I had the chance to meet those great next door guys and I hope to stop for a lovely chat next time I'll spot them!
May be heading for a walk they both suffer a light diabetic or even better forgetting abut the sugar enjoy a nice chocolat outside a bar where the Aik's wife cannot find us and thus complain about it : )

My lesson for the day was "Don't judge a book from it's cover"

Declaration of Slavery:

I am Italian, and I am now living in Australia, so I couldn't bother that much about America, but I do really believe that we are all connected each other with a quite thick rope, and we must use that rope to rescue ourselves and not to hang each other.

We must learn from the people that came before us, as not make the same mistake but instead follow whom inspired us with great example and fearless.

Here is a link to a BeppeGrillo's blog page reading which I learn something about one of the greatest American men in recent history, that man is again Robert Kennedy, and this post is about that speach he delivered at the Kansas university:

It's so important to understand that this man had been killed because he was standing for his idea of equality and because he tried to be fair in a world that doesn't like the outside player like him.

"Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion dollars a year, but that Gross National Product - if we judge the United States of America by that - that Gross National Product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for the people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children."

"Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans."

In short my thought it's all about the acknowledgment of the fact that we live most of our lives to follow a dream that somebody else told us to dream, fearing what we are told to fear, and forgetting what is really important for us, i.e. that if we skim all the futile things, we would easily find out that there are plenty of better ones to live for, so don't wait it's too late do what you like but do it now! And let's try do it together!

Otherwise will be son too late!