Who would have ever said that your world would become mine? Twenty-five years to complete, a degree in international studies and a specialization in humanitarian law to be completed: then one sunny morning in September, the discovery of being accepted at the ISSMI Master at the Center for Advanced Studies in Defense of Rome. And the choice is there: childbirth?
So the transfer to the capital in zero time, or so it seemed to me. And there the real change begins: a year of training that would have totally changed my educational, personal and professional training.
To know you, your stories, sometimes so paradoxical, and your experiences so far from common experiences has been fascinating, exciting, educational. It is challenging, or at least it seemed to me.
After completing the master's degree, the search for work began, which unfortunately has alienated me from your world from a professional point of view.
But life can be funny and unpredictable and so, to make it short, now I find myself to be the companion of an officer and mother (worker) of the daughter of an officer. And now "challenging" has a different meaning.
Today I know what it means to transfer in zero time, I know what it means to not know where you will be destined, I know what flexibility and adaptation mean. Two qualities that distinguish you. And that must become essential characters of your women and your children. But we also have to develop a lot of waiting skills and explain to ourselves and to our children that even if you are not with us for dinner or to tuck up their blankets, you are still there.
And in the morning when the Sun enters through the windows to announce that another demanding, flexible, readjusted and patient day is starting, it shines to remind me that the choice I made that sunny September morning was the right choice.
In any case, I thank you all.
As a woman.
As a wife.
As a mother.
As a citizen.
