That's NOT Amore: My point of view about Italy's jobs and families condition.

That's NOT Amore: My point of view about Italy's condition

Don't get me wrong: I love being Italian. But I feel like, this is not my place on earth anymore.

I was born in 1995, in a small city near Rome, called Tivoli, a place with beautiful art pieces, full of history. My mother always gave me all over herself to give us everything that she could afford, that's not much. But I don't want to pity myself, so let's go on.

I'm 21 now, a young adult, but I'm feeling like I'm still a child. NOTHING changed for me, since I was 15. Why? It's so damn difficult to live on your own in Italy. Having well paid job is a dream for everyone here and getting a house to yourself, where you can be on your own, is quite impossible. But many of us works everyday and everynight, suffering the lack of sleep and works many hours, for 12 or even 16 hours in a day, with a daily wage that is less than 20 euro. The houses price here are from 400 euro to 800 euro... (Of course also 1000€) Of couse, we also have BILLS and TAXES but they're so expensive and useless. For example, we pay a tax for TRASH service, that costs 90 euro per month. We could live a good life, if we had 1200€ at month. But we don't afford that much.

I'm 21 now, I'm not really working , I don't really have a job. I have to depends on my parents, that can't even to make ends meet. I'm 21 now, with no future, no hopes, no goals. I'm 21 now, I want to study so many things: I want to study hairstyling, Fashion design, makeup artist, guitarist all that things that here costs 4000 euro at year. We can't afford those 'expensive' schools.

But this isn't the only problem.

Italy is killing our creativity.

We can't have colorful hair or tattoos to get a job, we also have to be like everyone else, with our makeup always flawless in our fashion clothes. We can't live with our art.

I've really wanted to study fashion and maybe became a fashion stylist to change fashion and create something new, but I can't. You only survive if you do things like everyone do.

You should all reflect about this. We should change this together.

(Thank to Tiffany Cassano for helping me)