Italy! Never have I encountered a country with as many contradictions as there are Mafia gods or types of pasta!
Italy seems to live by its contradictions!
Without them I fear Italy would simply not survive.
Only Italians could have invented a language where the same word ‘perche’ can mean both, because & why!?
Within the paradigms of North & South
There exist the extremes of Wealth or Poverty,
New or Old Traditions, Fast or Slow, Beautiful or Ugly,
Innocence, Beauty & Power against Lies, destruction & pain.
Two extremes of everything,
Nothing existing in between,
Italians are either one or the other,
With no room for the middle.
I am convinced Italians see it as their god given right to be able to change their minds whenever they see fit
To change the rules to benefit their situation at any given time and then revert back again whenever they choose.
Without even a thought to the hypocrisy of it all.
I am sure this must be where Italian bureaucracy comes from!
There are laws written to allow the contradictions for gods’ sake!
Yet it’s the bureaucracy that makes Italy so hard to live in.
Nothing is ever straight forward.
Even simple dealings with the health or education systems always without fail leave you wanting to pull your hair out at the sheer stupidity of it all!
Take for example the Italian postal service (If you can call it a service!)
On the surface it seems to be a functioning, organised system, but it is deeply deceiving to the eye.
One thing you have to understand is that post in Italy is not a given.
You can never trust that you will receive your parcels.
All you can do is put it out of your mind and live in hope that it will arrive safely or not safely at all!
It’s like a probability equation.
Your considered lucky if you receive any more than 50% of your post!
And anything above that and you’re pushing your luck!
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