new era

5 gen/09 11

Oh no .. is not a post that talks about the famous baseball caps. It 'a post about a nice change I'm going to do. I like to call "experiment". Even if someone looked at me a little incredulous when I told it.

First, I close my company and my brother. After four years of ups and downs, mostly downs, I feel that it's time to take this step because now that reality has lost its reason to exist. Mainly because it depends on me, and my life in recent months has led me to make a choice.

That sums up this example. Thanks to her I'm doing in school, the other day I was lucky enough to spend more than an hour to talk baseball with one of the guys that I coach and his parents. This for me was "brilliant", because I instinctively compared it in my head with one of those boring hours of fruitless talks with representatives of commercial suppliers or customers.

First, warm, exciting, alive, joyful, intense.
Second, cold, fake, dull, devious, empty.

To which I asked myself .. but who cares? To me, really, that I care to waste precious hours of my life behind these commercial logic, when I get a lot more when I pass an hour or so to teach children to play baseball?

And the rest came by itself. The first thing? I need help.

Yes, I say it openly. I need help right now because I think that alone be able to realize this thing is practically impossible.

The first people I asked for help were my own. It seems trivial, but for me it is not. I think this is the first in 29 years time I do it so openly. And I'm lucky, because the answer I got from my and my brother when I told them about this thing, the eyes were smiling. Thank you, really.

In short then, will be taken from them for a part time job. This will give me an economic basis and grant me more time to work in schools and in sports in general. Work? Yes Nowadays a person can decide to become a ski instructor, tennis, dance .. and if not exactly a disaster is often able to live well with this activity. But in baseball, and more generally in minor sports, this is not yet possible.

I believe that with the sole purpose of being able to live decently, now spreading to gather tomorrow, here in Genoa there is the possibility that in future a person may be able to put on at least a "half-pay" working in these sports. I had the good fortune to meet some people, very brave, who have believed and they did. Others we are trying for a while and I'm sure that if they continue it will reach their goal.

Although sometimes I'm a little afraid, I think this could be my way. Who knows. Once a person has just met, I told her that the entrepreneur said to me: "oh, how strange! I thought the teacher was doing something ..". who knows .. maybe we had half guessed! :)

Well .. I only hope to be able to give back in some way, sport and personal, all that I have been given so far. I have a feeling that I'll remember 2009 for a long time ..

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lephio
March 5th, 2009 - 20:22
thanks for the support faith! Liguria and Piedmont are close .. Sooner or later I do a whistle! :)
federico
February 28th, 2009 - 00:17
I did not know that your lifestyle choice lephio .... and I respect you very much for making it!
I hope to bring you what you'd expect, both from the practical point of view that you have embraced the ideals!
if you were to need help with some project turin problems do not get to make a whistle!
Luca Gelati
January 22nd, 2009 - 13:39
Hwarang Lephio!
so you want to say goodbye because that's how you greet the Hwarang knights! And you have the indomitable courage of these knights to whom we coereani Hwa Rang Do & Tae Soo Do Club Genoa Inspire us not only to our practice in the gym but also the difficulties of everyday life.
Sure, I understand that fighting with hypocrisy and falsehood in the world of "big" is not easy for people like us, still retains a child's eyes, what they dream, the one who believes that we can change things! But with this decision, you're going in the right direction with the facts! You have chosen to exit definitively from the Matrix! Good luck!
After this step you expect trouble, humiliation (such as we saw with the last time we met) and injustice. But you decided to fight, then fight to the end! And above all do not have any regrets!
I hope to see you soon ... soon. outside the Matrix.
Hwarang Forever
Luke
Dicmod
January 21st, 2009 - 17:08
Good luck,
soon to make your own team to play against the boys of Boves so I come to see the GM Lephio!
joesox
January 16th, 2009 - 03:20
As I already said.
Wishes that dreams come true.
lephio
January 14th, 2009 - 19:06
Paul, again through the media.
Ale, as you said yourself, if you were the best years, I believe that your efforts have been rewarded anyway! And then .. machine mediocrity! Anyone who slams to pursue their dreams is in my opinion is a person to admire and perhaps even to imitate!
Pixi, which Tamarra collanazza with the new cap was .. But that's cool!
We hope for good news these days to come! :)
ps. only one thing that I would not give a wrong image. not that I'll give them my money .. I will do a job for which I studied (just in school, much in the world of work and leisure) and that if I did, there should be someone else to do. having said that, I repeat that I am very lucky because this is still an opportunity not just!
Paul
January 12th, 2009 - 10:55
What can I say ... .. with an enthusiasm so you can not help but take off my hat and I will tell you that any help to make you have as far as I can.
Paul
Alessandro Dotti
January 7th, 2009 - 23:38
(Finish) ....
10 years ago I trained for 3 years bracket, created by me and Daniel (another player's Angels), children ... unpretentious ... the first season we finished second, behind the ... Cairese.
Unfortunately, the year after that team has gone to the cadet class, Busch by all ... The boys are mostly lost ....
We have tried again by dividing by the boys .... the biggest problem was that we played with the spirit that we were taught to us, or games, you have fun and if you can not pay ... patience.
We picked up (literally) from the street children to keep them away from certain rpm ... unfortunately did not pay, in an economic sense and we have put a lot of money ....
Not to mention that the field where we were training (Don Bosco), we put a spoke in the wheels making pay when it was raining and permettondoci only 2 hours on Saturday afternoon ... ..
Maybe mine was a mediocre experience to your eyes that are so released, but the first year as coach was also the best of my life ... ...
Ale
Alessandro Dotti
January 7th, 2009 - 23:26
What to say, very brave ... ... .. and lucky to have parents behind you ... support, also financially. because, let's face it, you'll see very little money at the beginning ... ..
Now more than
Pixi
January 7th, 2009 - 00:26
noooooooo, I wrote the html code but I do not take it .. oof ..
Pixi
January 7th, 2009 - 00:25
Though small, I could not put it ..