NoGap

WHAT’S NORMAL?

 

What’s Normal?

How and what can we define as “normality”?

Who decides what is normal and what, instead, is not?

Our association feels the need to work towards a “cultural transformation” that challenges the perception of disadvantage as a condition of marginalisation and social isolation.

NoGap is committed to restoring centrality to the individual, regardless of where they may fall on the imaginary scale of conformity, and to ensuring that opportunities that are denied from the outset are redistributed.

I am a person

  • If I have my own voice, if I give my answer.
  • If I listen deeply to the voice of others.
  • When I take on the good and the bad inside of me.
  • If I give voice to my needs, my rights and at the same time I know how to give voice to the needs and rights of others.
  • If I do not allow anyone to trample on my rights, my needs, my dignity, all that is sacred to me.
  • If I consider my conscience as a court to answer in all circumstances.
  • If I don’t delegate to others what I can do.
  • If I do not consider myself as a thing, an object to be used at will.
  • If I know how to enter into everything that is not value.
  • If I live without crutches of substances that distance me from myself and take away my freedom and awareness of myself.
  • If I know how to touch my suffering, my limits, traumas, separations, defeats, betrayals, everything that causes suffering.
  • If I know how to recognize the evil that is inside of me and decide to overcome it.
  • If I know that my freedom opens and closes the doors, it creates and destroys.
  • If I can transform impotence into power, fear into courage, despair into hope.
  • If I respond with a constructive action to a destructive one.
  • When I get up, when I put my heart over the obstacle, my mind over the limit.
  • If I love my identity, my family, my culture but I have sincere respect for what others are and feel.
  • If I defend my freedom and do not invade that of others.
  • If I can recognize the truth from anyone and from wherever it comes.
  • If I know how to say yes to good and no to evil, yes to truth no to lies, yes to justice.
  • If I do not delegates parties, organizations, trade unions, institutions to think for me.
  • If I don’t take advantage of the little ones, the weak, those who can’t defend themselves.
  • If I have the opportunity to steal with impunity and I do not steal, to manipulate without consequences and I do not manipulate, to take advantages of the misfortunes of others and I do not take advantage.
  • If I can see what unites us and I know how to find a solution to what divides us.
  • If I choose the voice of my conscience between the law of the State that allows me to do so and the law of conscience that forbids me to.
  • If I always have something to add to my being a person, because you never stop since BEING A PERSON IS “THE HUMAN CREATIVE SUBJECT”.


Orvieto 30 novembre 2008, Paolo Vincenzo Manco