Week 2 GL 350

It is now the second week of my adventures in Roma and I feel like the time is going by so fast; I can’t get over the fact it’s already Wednesday. I really consider every second I get to spend here precious time and I want to make the best of it. In The Italians, Barzini discusses the fatal charm of Italy, his statement about the fatal spell appealed to me. He states, “It made and still makes unwanted people feel wanted, unimportant people feel important, and purposeless people believe that the real way to live intelligently is to have no earnest purpose in life”. I feel as though I relate to this quote in many ways.

As I mentioned in my post before this one, I had no reason for coming to Italy, but now being here and experiencing everything I know that I was meant to be here at this time. In the beginning of the semester while I awaited my departure to Rome, I had little if any motivation. It was tiring and depressing, all I wanted to do at home was sit and watch television. I felt I had lost my purpose in life and no matter what I did I couldn’t get that motivation back, it was a weird phenomenon. 

After the first week of classes in Rome I have my motivation back and I feel like I have a driving force pushing me to go out and experience Rome and take everything in. Rome is so beautiful and maybe that’s why I can’t get enough of it. Like Barzini says, “Everything is displayed everywhere, in dramatic and artistic disorder” and I love this about Rome. In The Smiles of Rome, Ginzburg talks about how she no longer thinks it’s clear why she loves Rome, and that love is something unexplainable. I believe that love is unexplainable, but I don’t know if I could ever stop loving the sites of Rome.