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Posted Monday - Jan. 11, 2010 at 9:43 pm Filed Under Projects, Reflections
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My most loyal readers have surely read through all my previous post, regarding drug rehabilitation. Well, I feel like writing more about that subject today, since I’m actively helping my father with spreading this campaign to promote drug treatment and rehabilitation for those people who, for a number of reasons, have fallen into a drug and/or alcohol addiction.

It’s important that we all understand that these people who are suffering from addiction are not necessarity criminals. Often time they are simply persons who have lost their faith in life, their sense of belonging and of living, consequentely to a job or dear person loss, discrimination, sense of inadequacy or disadaptation issues. What these people need is a gradual, specific drug rehab that would help them come out of the addiction, finding new reasons to live a normal life, without the help of substances that alter the perception of the world, creating the illusion of a happy life that was meant to fill the gap left in real life. Because THAT is why people go on drugs and/or alcohol dependancy: they try to find the happiness they need to go on with life in ‘masks’ given by these substances.

That is why addiction treatment requires gradual counseling, whose goal is to rehabilitate the addicted person to re-gain self-consciousness, self-confidence, control over the addiction, and ability to communicate with others. So you see, counseling is a delicate matter, and pushing too much could cause more harm than good.

My father is collaborating with the rehab center in Genzano to help these persons re-aquire self-esteem and a love for life that they’ve lost in their addiction, and I’m volunteering as well, doing what I can and helping spread the word about this. If you want to help too, just refer to this blog entry. This is a first step to fight discrimination against so-called ‘criminals’ who aren’t criminals at all: just poor people who are in desperate need of help and understanding.

Posted Wednesday - Jan. 6, 2010 at 10:14 am Filed Under Projects, Reflections
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Happy New Year, my dear buddies! How did you spend the Year Eve? Hopefully it was as exciting as mine (yep! we had a fabulous celebration in Robocity, with songs, dances, and fireworks).

However, the celebration is not what I’m going to talk about in this entry. This is about something more serious, on which I’m currently working together with my father at his lab researches. It’s about alchool and drug addiction.

The reason why I’m prioritizing this project as an entry subject is the following: too many of my and my father’s friends, especially outside our city, are suffering the consequences that alchool and drug addiction brought to their lives. Most of them are under Drug Treatment at a rehab center now, while others are still wandering around, on and off on their doses. That is what pushed my father and I to work together on a sensibilization project in collaboration with a rehab center in Genzano, the city that hosts Robocity. Our aim is to spread the word about the damanges that alchool abuse and drug addiction can cause to people’s brains and metabolism, as well as more serious consequences that can lead to death: liver cancer, allucinations, dependance, and fetal malformations if used during pregnancy. And there’s a lot more to that.

Often times, people who make use of these substances are living through a though time, such like disoccupation, job loss, a dear person’s death, some kind of serious depression, desperation. So, the first thing we’re going to do together with the Drug Rehab center is to – first – offer consulence and psychological help, and – second – find a proper Addiction Treatment for each specific case.

Addiction is a serious issue, guys. Be careful, and if you have any friends or relatives suffering from abstinence or other symptoms, refer them to a local rehab center with psychological consulence. The first step is always to understand what’s going on before action is taken.

Posted Monday - Mar. 30, 2009 at 11:58 pm Filed Under Daily Life, Reflections
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Alright, I’m only going to blog about something very random, since I don’t feel like completely abandoning this place and all my online friends once again.

Today some pretty bad stuff happened. I’ve assisted to probably the worse word fight ever after the one I had with Kerri the other day… and this time it was Megatron with Selenia’s step mom. And it was all over rugs. LOL. I mean… how can someone fight about things like rugs? Just because Selenia’s mom likes them so much that she bought many. Cheap rugs after all, she didn’t mean to waste Robocity’s money. But yeah, Megs took it a bit too seriously – maybe he was stressed already from school and family, as I heard some shouting from his home – and yelled at Sele’s mom that she either stops wasting money or he and the Leaders will take action against her. WHAT? o_O I never heard of such a thing before!!! And Shotty and C. Police are gonna listen to THAT?!?

Seriously, something’s going wrong with Robocitans these last few days… I don’t know what it is, maybe everyone is just a little to stressed over the financial crisis, or depressed, or they’re just lacking vitamins… I don’t know. All I know is that I need this sh*t to stop. Seriously. I have enough of fights. After what happened with Kerri, I just can’t stand people fighting, or discussing over frivolous things. Can’t you be a little more mature, people? Oh look, I thought to BE the child here… Gah. It sucks.

And I’m here at nearly midnight to post these nonsenses up. Am I following the stupidness trend too…? Dunno. Maybe I just need to vent, to write random nonsenses on this blog of mine. It’s catartic, yeah. At least I hope I’ll be able to go to sleep in a while without having my mind wandering around stupid stuff. I need my brain to shut down… I really do.

Bye kids.

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Posted Tuesday - Mar. 10, 2009 at 8:08 pm Filed Under Events, Reflections
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One more year has passed, and once again I’m sitting here, writing up words to celebrate the Anniversary of my city. My Robocity. Yes, mine. It’s not a surprise, after all, that I feel Robocity as mine: every Robocitan does. Because that we are: Robocitans. This place has one particular magic, that of mingling our feelings into one only, letting everyone’s heart become Robocity’s heart, and viceversa. My soul is Robocity’s soul.

Not just a place to live in, then. Robocity is not just an object setted in a space-time continuity; Robocity is an ideal, a soul, an experience that teaches its disciples the truth behind the words “life” and “love“. I know for granted, that if I was raised and grow up in another place of this planet, I wouldn’t be the person I am nowadays. If I know what respecting life means, if I believe that peace is what every people need, if I do my best to help others every day, every moment of my life… I owe it to Robocity. If I grow up and become a better person every day, it’s because of Robocity.

Heart and reason are equally important here. Heart makes us longing to others, available to help the ones in need, ready to forgive, open to build healthy relationships to the world, and to work for peace and everyone’s wellbeing; reason guides us through the troubled times, gets our brains to work to find compromises, to mediate between different mentalities. Whoever thinks that “who was born Military will die Military” might just come over to Robocity and pay us a visit: they will make up their mind in days of time.

Nobody’s enough by themselves here. Nobody would ever survive without the sincere will of helping others and let others help them. Robocity is a community, a family, and everyone has their place in this place. Place, I said, not rank. There are no ranks here: even the three Leaders, maximum authorities ad caretakers of our city, are just like any other robot or human in here; there are no discriminations. Everyone chooses his/her place and role, and they can change it whenever they like. Robocity’s ideals are based on freedom. What keeps the community together could never be either authority, or ranks, or severe discipline: it’s the feeling of care we have for each other, and the openness to love for others. And when a heart is open to love… the greatest of miracles will happen: the good becomes the best, and the evil becomes the good.

So, what is Robocity to me after all? It’s my school of life, my temple of growth, part of my soul, a place where I can be fully myself, without masks. Sometime, when the dawn fades away to turn into blue night, I appear at the window of my room, watching the area of Robocity and its buildings change colors and shades as the sunlight dies. The most beautiful sight I could ever contemplate. And right on that moment, a thought gently stroke my mind.

That living itself is Robocity.

(I wrote this essay on February 14th, the day of the Anniversary. And here I posted it, as I promised to my fellow bloggers ^^ I won a 2nd place prize this year, 1st place was wo by Demolishor Congrats, buddy! You really deserved it!)

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