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Months go by quickly and almost without having the time to realize it;
here I am, in Italy again, in the 400 inhabitants’ village where I’ve grown up.
Lyon already seems a far away dream, with its evening on the quay du Rhone,
the walks at Tete d’or parc,
the wonderful districts of different ages and styles,
the friends from all over the world.
All I’ve got left are images and memories with their bittersweet taste of nostalgia.
I’m Zulberti Cleto, born in 1947 and I live in Cimego.
I’ve been retired for five years now and my profession was working as a technical employee.
There weren’t many opportunities in the Giudicarie valley,
so I left and I moved to Milan's suburbs.
When I was in Milan, I liked to often come back and stay in Cimego
and now that I’m in Cimego, I would like to go back to Milan
because it’s certainly a society that offers you more.
I came back because I feel I belong to the community of Cimego
I consider myself a Cimeghese, a Trentino,
but travelling is also surely instructive, it opens your mind.
I’ve been to South Africa, Argentina; I've travelled all over the world
and clearly when you come back you are enriched by these experiences.
I have come into contact with people with higher level of cultural experiences than myself,
who were more qualified, knowledgeable, in many aspects…
and this has been a clear advantage for me, in improving my knowledge of the world.
A thing that my father has given me is the passion of farming vineyards,
for the little I need.
And I do it pretty well, following my father’s advices.
However, throughout my life I’ve dedicated the most part of my free time to music,
which I still practice as the director of the musical band of Cimego and of Castel Condino.
My ambition was to play the accordion but first, I needed to buy it
and there weren’t much money to do this. So an Aunt helped me in the end.
She bought it and gave it to me and I started to play my first notes on this instrument.
As you can see, this is like an archeological find!
Therefore instead, I followed a three year course in band direction
held by the Musical Band Federation of Trento.
At the end of the Seventies we made our final performance
and my music-related life had begun ever since.
We are all non-professional, all volunteers;
we all have other jobs so whenever we arrive at night to the music school, we’re not fresh.
The director, besides helping musically,
has to also play the role of a psychologist, trying to understand
when someone is well enough to play and not tired from just finishing work.
The carnival of 1973;
here you can see the accordion we spoke about before, the gift from my aunt.
Here, instead, I’m with the director of the band of Innsbruck,
with whom we made a twinning exactly in 1995.
As soon as the music school begins, I forget all that happened during the day.
The power of music is this: it makes the hard efforts disappear.
Well, the love… we can clearly see that often there is
a love with the capital “L” and then a love with the small “l”.
I’m really bothered when someone first says “I love you”
and then the day after change this sentence for a stupid reason.
For me “love” is a very important word.
I see it as a word, very very deep and in this depth
there are some feelings and some values that are very difficult to be found nowadays.
I don't know if I can raise the hope to find them again
but I hope that at least they still exist somewhere.
Well, let me say that life is made of chances and events that,
for whatever reasons concern me, are unexplainable.
I don’t know if there is some sort of direction upon us or something else,
because I certainly haven't chosen not to marry
or this kind of life instead of another one.
I've realized that you are really pushed in a direction that leads you to that.
If I had the chance to go back I would do the same thing all over again,
because I have nothing to complain about, no regrets.
Basically, what can I ask more of my life, since I’m pretty healthy?
There are things that I would have liked to have done.
One of them, if I had the chance and the money,
would have been car racing, because speed means adrenaline to me.
I’ve never mortgaged my future
and I’ve never created myself problems like “I could be, I should have done…”.
For sure there are things that I could have done in a different way
but that’s obvious. Who doesn’t make any mistake in his own life?
I’m happy and satisfied just the way I am.
Being left alone has always been one of my biggest fears.
Anyway, with time, I’ve learned that we have to be able to accept
the possibility that not everything goes the way we want in our life.
The importance is not having any regret.
Like the cactus flower, that blossom for twelve hours only,
we must be able to see the beauty of things and keep it like a treasure, before it’s too late.
Not suffering over what we miss but enjoying what we have.
I’m convinced that the ability to stay alone is a fundamental step
to being able to relate with other people in the right way.
I’m ready to face peacefully the game of destiny,
now that solitude appears less scary.
thanks to Su Geesy