In this period so difficult, surrounded by the tragedy caused by COVID-19 in Italy and around the world, each for thought becomes even more important. Just as every element that can bring us something, small or large, to which cling.
That something that today we propose is "Open", the splendid autobiographical book in which the tennis champion Andre Agassi tells about himself and his life, indissolubly intertwined, not without reserving surprises, in tennis, since he was a child, to marriage with Steffi Graf.
An extremely complicated path, the one performed by the boy-prodigy, without the possibility of evading the obligation imposed on him to emerge, which provoked in him moments of rebellion and fall, but from which he managed to recover, go back and learn the best life lessons.
We like to report a passage, in that series of "co-indications" that, At bottom, within us they are never really such. The invitation to South Africa to get to know a person of human value, politico, historical and social which Nelson Mandela, it is preceded in him by these words:
"I think about something Mandela once said in an interview: Wherever you have come in life, there is always another way to go. And I think of one of Mandela's favorite quotes, from the poem Invictus, which gave him strength in moments when he thought his path had been cut off: I am the master of my own destiny: I am the captain of my soul".
And here it is, finally, the poem written in Invictus written by the poet, British journalist and editor William Ernest Henley (1849-1903):
INVICTUS
From the depths of the night that surrounds me,
black as a well from one pole to another,
I thank whatever god may exist
for my impregnable soul.In the fierce grip of circumstances
I didn't back down or scream out loud.
Under the ax blows of fate
my head is bloody but indomitable.Beyond this place of anger and tears
only the horror of the shadows looms,
yet the threat of the years
find, and will find me without fear.It doesn't matter how tight the door is,
how full of punishments the parchment,
I am master of my destiny:
I am captain of my soul.
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