Samuele Criscuolo

BA graduate in International Affairs and Diplomacy, MA in Global Security and Strategy

Member of @ora_italia

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The Lessons I Learned from My Dad

I am not the man my father is.
I am trying. Some days closer. Some days farther.
He never sat me down and explained these lessons. He lived them. I’m still learning them.

Show up.
The kitchen table. The hospital room. The funeral. The picket line. The call from the son who won’t answer.
Show up.
Most days that’s the whole job.
My whole life I watched him do it. Not for cameras. Not for headlines. Not because there was something in it for him. He showed up because someone needed him.

I learned that grief doesn’t make you special.
My father buried a wife and daughter. He buried a son. Yet he never treated grief as a claim on other people’s sympathy. Instead, it made him notice theirs.
A mother who lost a child. A father sitting beside a hospital bed. A kid scared about what comes next. A son who lost his mother, his sister, his brother.
He always noticed.

I learned that power is not the point.
The people who chase power eventually confuse the office with themselves.
My father never did.
Whether he was a county councilman, a senator, vice president, or president, he was the same man.
The title changed.
He didn’t.

I learned that family comes first.
The train from Wilmington wasn’t symbolism.
It was every night.
He read to us. Showed up to games. Sat through hospital rooms. Waited up for children who were lost.
And when the day came that the country and the family could not both have him at full strength, he chose family. He relinquished the last chapter of how he wanted to be remembered. And he never complained about it.

Most of all, I learned that love is not soft.
Love is discipline.
Love is showing up at one in the morning when nobody is watching.
Love is answering the phone.
Love is staying.
Love is getting back up after life knocks you down and doing it all again tomorrow.
That love saved my life.
I’ve failed at many of these lessons, sometimes in very public ways.
He loved me anyway.

That’s the last lesson.
I am not trying to become my father.
I am trying to carry what he gave me.
And if I can do that, even imperfectly, that will be enough.

Happy Father’s Day, Dad. I love you.

[Samuele Criscuolo @samucrisc]

@ora_italia @s_pubblico Ottimo. È evidente la necessità di confrontarsi al di là degli intenti. Se il problema è di metodo si parta da quello; se serve fare uno o più primi passi facciamoli e mostriamo di essere più lungimiranti degli altri. Ma la posta in gioco è troppo alta per lasciarla lettera morta

[Samuele Criscuolo @samucrisc]

@theycallmebacci @dettointernos @chiarabressann In che modo la danneggerebbero, perdonami?

[Samuele Criscuolo @samucrisc]

@dettointernos @chiarabressann studente y di frequentare in presenza, né lo danneggiano in alcun modo. In più per l'università ha un costo irrisorio, quindi non c'è alcuna motivazione sensata fondamentalmente per non farlo. 3/3

[Samuele Criscuolo @samucrisc]

@dettointernos @chiarabressann emblema di pigrizia non vedo dove stia il problema. Poiché la si paga, e nemmeno poco, ritengo sia giusto frequentarla nei modi e con le motivazioni che più mi aggradano, siano esse condivisibili o meno. D'altronde, le scelte che faccio io studente x non impediscono allo...2/3

[Samuele Criscuolo @samucrisc]

@theycallmebacci Sono d'accordo sul giudizio finale, ma con tutto il rispetto credo sia molto più fazioso giudicare una persona capace o meno di ricoprire una determinata carica sulla base delle sue idee e posizione. Ancora di più se si parla di ruoli di garanzia super partes.

[Samuele Criscuolo @samucrisc]

@matildabbiati @Federic0Franki Difatti non è al potere, ma all'opposizione. Ben lungi da prendere le difese di Salvini, ma quello che hai elencato è il solito mantra di chi lo va a criticare senza avere senso critico.

[Samuele Criscuolo @samucrisc]

@pietroboomin La ripresa della scuola, SE organizzata bene dalle scuole è necessaria e doverosa. La situazione attuale sta creando un danno a livello culturale ed educativo enorme. I contagi a scuola si sono già dimostrati essere bassissimi.