Between Questions and Certainties

A very good song by Nickelback and a great video. I'd like to know people's interpretations of the video. My interpretation of the video is that we really can find love in this world, if we could just open up our eyes. The numbers above the people are what motivates the character into caring about everyone around him after he was saved by someone who he didn't even know. After his close to death experience the character finally starts caring about everyone else. We all have the same fate at the end of the day, so why don't we just try and get along. Doesn't matter if we're rich or poor, black or white, we're all part of the same world, we all live, and eventually die.

"Savin' Me" by Nickelback

Prison gates won't open up for me
On these hands and knees I'm crawlin'
Oh, I reach for you
Well I'm terrified of these four walls
These iron bars can't hold my soul in
All I need is you
Come please I'm callin'
And oh I scream for you
Hurry I'm fallin', I'm fallin'

[Chorus:]
Show me what it's like
To be the last one standing
And teach me wrong from right
And I'll show you what I can be
Say it for me
Say it to me
And I'll leave this life behind me
Say it if it's worth saving me

Heaven's gates won't open up for me
With these broken wings I'm fallin'
And all I see is you
These city walls ain't got no love for me
I'm on the ledge of the eighteenth story
And oh I scream for you
Come please I'm callin'
And all I need from you
Hurry I'm fallin', I'm fallin'

[Chorus]

Hurry I'm fallin'

All I need is you
Come please I'm callin'
And oh, I scream for you
Hurry I'm fallin', I'm fallin', I'm fallin'

[Chorus]

Hurry I'm fallin'

We keep asking ourselves the same questions over and over again. We never seem to find an answer to them, so they never go away. Why are we here? Where are we going? What lies beyond us? Some people decided to hide those questions behind an unexplainable barrier, God. As if we took a stack of unorganized papers and stuffed them in a box so they don't look too messy. We invented a god, an all-powerful being that no one is able to have proof of its existence and yet we believe it, one almighty being on which we rely all the questions that the human race is unable to solve. However, this God, whether we call it God, Allah or anything else, gave people a reason for their life, it gave people hope. The human race slowly walks towards its own destruction, not caused by natural disasters, or supernatural causes. We are destroying ourselves. If there really is a God up there, and he loves us because we are his creation, isn't it about time he sent us a sign? Just one small sign to tell us that he is really there, a sign to tell us that there really are things beyond our control, and that maybe all our philosophical and scientific theories were wrong. Why won't he send us a sign?
...About two thousand years ago he did send us one. What did we do to that sign?

We crucified it...

We all assume that God loves us because we are amongst his best creations... Then again even the best of inventors hated their own inventions. For example, I'm sure Oppenheimer wasn't proud of the nuclear bomb.

We denied God once, do we deserve forgiveness? I don't know about you, but honestly, I think we don't...

This is a video article in two parts, please watch this one first, and preferably read the text found on the article below before watching the video. Thank You.

Luca Miglionico

As Fabio Grosso placed the ball on the penalty mark, he must have thought to himself: How many penalty kicks have ever been taken in the world, and as each kick lead whoever followed it into a new joy, or delusion, tomorrow that moment will pass on to be a memory. Sure it's just a penalty kick like every other one, but it's more than just kicking a ball into a net. In Fabio's case it was probably a moment that would come only once in his life, but if he succeeded, once would be enough. As he slowly stepped away from the ball, the world stopped to watch him, he knew that. Every single movement he made was being carefully watched by millions of people. His country depended on him, his team mates, his family... Silence fell on the Olimpiastadion, silence fell upon Berlin, silence, while everyone waited... We would probably only be able to fully understand what a man feels in his position, if we happened to find ourselves in the same exact situation.

He must have thought back to how it all began, Italy's long struggle to seize the moment, the trophy, and the glory that they hadn't seen for 24 years. He knew that it all began in 1990, when the Italian's were defeated on penalty kicks playing on their own grounds, and, feeling the bitter taste of defeat, had to give way to let the Germans reach the highest step. Four years later, the penalty kick Italians will probably never forget, which did not require any explanations, marked a new, and horrible era that would haunt Italian football for years to come. And so came the disasters of the 1998 World Cup, the 2000 Euro Cup, the 2002 World Cup, and the 2004 Euro Cup. Italian football fans had forgotten how to smile, but...

On the 12th June 2006, it all changed. Italy walked back on to the pitch yet again, like a boxer that had been thrown to the floor uncountable times but yet stood up again, to face his obstacles yet again. 11 brave gladiators, walking on to the pitch, without a single trace of fear on their faces. Their battle began, and lasted 30 days, but they all knew, those would be the longest 30 days of their lives. At each goal scored by the Azzurri, a smile slowly, very slowly and faintly, began to repaint itself on the faces of all Italians. It was a very familiar smile which seemed to have been lost forever, but who did not abandon them. It slowly returned, after a long and painful wait. No one dared to show their smile, because there still was a long battle to fight. On the night of 9th July 2006, the Italians found themselves one step away from that one moment everybody dreamed of, but very few deeply believed in. Silence...Fabio looked up at the sky, and nobody knew what he was thinking exactly, but it felt as if everyone was sharing that moment, that excitement, that pressure with him. The final moment came, Fabio got off his feet and started towards the ball, Barthez watched him carefully, not losing his movements for even a split second. The commentator's voice on the TV seemed to echo throughout an eternity: He shoots...
All the tragedies that Italian football had seen for the past two decades could not have been solved in any better way...than a penalty kick. After the storm, that lasted 24 agonizing years, Italians had finally found sunshine...


"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."


Congratulazioni Azzurri, Grazie di tutto.

Text written by: Luca Miglionico

Here is a continuation of the argument I had with August which is posted earlier in this blog. The argument was continued by my friend Marinella and I.

Luca -
I agree with you on the fact that curiosity lightens up inside us and we want to find out what's behind what we see, but normally once we start we can't stop, we go deeper and deeper... and it leads to a point that you forgot where you started. Using the example of looking up at the stars, you might want to find out what stars are, so u go and find out. Then you want to know what they are made of, and you go deeper. Then you want to know what their purpose is, so you go even deeper. Eventually, you got so far into it that you forget that you were looking up at something beautiful.

Nella -
Ok, but it only depends on what you consider beautiful then. For a normal person, looking at the stars is beautiful. For a scientist, looking into it, looking for answers, that's his/her, beauty, everything about it is its beauty.

Luca -
Yeah you got a point, but once you find out those answers how has your life changed?

Nella -
I guess that once you get the answers, u feel somehow complete, u know what life really is, not just your life, but everything around you. In a way, you feel like you're home, you're life does change, you feel more secure, you know what's going on, you can see the beauty in things. It's like a path you take that leads to understanding things, situations around you.

Luca -
Ok I agree with you on that, so now we both agree that the main problem of humanity is not from asking too many questions. So in your opinion, what is it?

Nella -
The problem with humanity is that we ask questions without really wanting to find the answers. We show no interest for nothing.

Luca -
You're not making sense. If we ask a question, obviously our intentions is to get somewhere with our question.

Nella -
We ask questions expecting other people to answer instead of looking for it ourselves.

Luca -
If we didn't have any interest, we would just not say anything.

Nella -
Think about it how many people have you heard asking questions, and when they get the answer, they say “Ok, yeah, whatever”? I heard it a lot. Another problem: do we actually look for the beauty of things around us?

Luca -
Listen, I said this to August before: In my opinion, our problem is that none of us give two shits about each other. Not even amongst friends.. I know it sounds harsh, and you might not agree with what I just said. But let me ask you one simple question to test you: You have a best friend, you are both fully qualified to become vice president of a huge corporation, who would you honestly rather have in that position. Would you want your best friend to take the job, or yourself?

Nella -
I guess we would first think about ourselves. We are selfish, all of us to be honest, and we think first: Me, I'll do it.

Luca -
Exactly that's what I'm trying to get to.

Nella -
I see where you're going.

Luca -
That's our problem, and we can't fix it. It's in our nature I guess

Nella -
We mostly think what is best for us and not for the people around us and I do agree we should change that. Think about it Luca, I mean we are like animals, we can think, but we act, do things for us.

Luca -
I don't think we can change that... Our species has seen THOUSANDS if not Tens of Thousands of wars.

Nella -
Yeah.

Luca -
Everyone today wants Peace, but they want Their OWN type of peace. They want the type of peace that will suit them better... That's' why nobody can ever agree on anything.

Nella -
True, but that's why the people who think like this shouldn't give up. We can't change the world, but we can't just give up either. We can't change the world but we can change some people's opinions and that's a lot already.

Luca -
Ok, but I guess even if we did try to change people's opinions, deep inside we would be changing their opinions because it suits US... We don't really care about them.


Note: I decided to conclude the above argument using a quote from President John F. Kennedy: "Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings."