In a time that seems so extraordinary, we open a window on the tenacious normality of those who continue to make the country work. Voices of those who work every day, leaving home and loved ones - only to return (if and when they are allowed to do so) with the doubt of harming them. Small stories of an even more difficult quarantine, precisely because it is permeable.

Black and white photo of Alessia

I'm Alessia.

I am a Sicilian nurse who emigrated to the North to work in the hospital, at the service of the weak, of those who are ill. I have chosen to leave the certainties and comforts of a place that has grown and embraced me to seek growth elsewhere. Both Personal and Professional. I challenged myself to accept the physical distance from my loved ones, and especially today, on the front line with Covid-19 patients, I feel the distance that separates me from them, intensely.

But even more intensely I love what I do. It gives me a sense of well-being that excites and stimulates me to be better. A better person.

Before this strange 2020, the most particular moment of all my twenty-eight years was feeling the joy flooding my heart when my niece was born. An unknown joy. Rare in times like these.

I don't know what what awaits me tomorrow. What emotions will I have to come to terms with.

But I certainly know something about today.

I know I'm afraid. Not being able to quietly hug my family. Not just now. Even when it is all over.

But I also know it's not a good enough reason to stop fighting. I will continue, tomorrow as today, for all the difficulties that will still exist, with the same tenacity that has helped me to be the person I am.

To me, to my family, I wish everyone the courage. And not to give it to fear.

"I'm afraid I won't be able to hug them as before." Alessia last edit: 2020-05-05T13:00:00+02:00 da Staff

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