This small part is meant to report some stories told by grandma Ada that will surely help the reader find the great wiseness of our old people and the love towards the fundamental values of life and not for the “extrovert” things (like she loved to constantly repeat).

In our long chatters she loved to tell the story of three friends (water, fire, honour) which, after a quarrel, got separated.
Water says to the other two:”If you may want to find me, I’ll be under the rush”(because under it there’s a lot of humidity).
Fire says to the other two:”If you may want to find me, I’ll be under the ash in the fireplace”.
Then,honour saysto the other two:”Once lost,you’ll never find me anymore”.

An important sentence was: curiosity and pride have a friend, who is it? The friend would teach to the other two not to be curious and proud. I leave to the reader the possibility to look inside his soul to find the solution that maybe will make him better.

Thanks to my parents, to my grandparents and to my sweet grandma Ada for the advices, the gift of love, and for the respect of the main values of life. Thanks also to all the old people who, without knowing, give to youngsters, like us, pearls of their wiseness.