lust for the life

By: Charles, James

We were on vacation. It was a normal working day for him. We warmed ourselves in the May sun in a small square in Palermo. He was a textile salesman who roamed through the unrenovated backyards of the Vucceria, pushing his goods in front of him on a handcart across the pavement and praising them to the housewives, one of whom occasionally looked out of a window upstairs and called out something to him. He usually sang in a low voice, almost to himself, sometimes at the top of his lungs, and in between he called out the names of his customers and his not-always-clean jokes. Only one bought a little something while we watched him in the square. But he didn't take offense to life on this beautiful day. He went on singing. It was like a cheesy opera scenario. But above all, an image of joie de vivre. Not to envy the man for his job.
Why was he singing? Because he had to. Why does a bird sing? Because he has to. In his song he expresses the joy of life for himself.
In this regard, children arelike birds. Children, big and small, can be like that, self-absorbed to their heart's content, absorbed in the moment. Like little Antonia, not yet two years old, who recently came into the office and discovered something that delighted her: a whoop, a smile. Her whole body, herself, was that whoop at that moment. There was nothing inside her but that joy, and the files began to dance for a moment. Children can be like this: They don't walk, they jump, run, shout at each other or whisper in their ears. So they are: play is serious, is intenseLife. Completely with yourself, oblivious and at the same time full of movement.
The Indians celebrate a child's first bright laugh as a holiday for adults. "A child's first laugh," says the Swiss clown Dimitri, is "the first expression of love and well-being". Maybe that's why children and adults love clowns so much, because they make us laugh again. Laughter, it is said, "beads". Lust for life also overflows.

"Lust for life" means: It is a pleasure to live. All burden falls off one. Everything becomes easy thanks to this positive energy that stimulates body and soul. One thinks of love and ecstasy, laughter, pleasure. At dance and festival. Music is in the air.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN13: 9798848948004
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"