How one guy single-handedly cleaned the Southern Italian coast during a Pandemic
One month ago at the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic, Italians melted our hearts with Instagram videos dancing on their patios and singing together in unison via balconies during the quarantine. Now after over five weeks of the real lockdown, the good times have shifted a bit. Us Americans are deprived. Deprived of our friends. Our parties, our music festivals our travels. But we are free. Italians cannot go out of their apartments. For over FIVE WEEKS now! They may leave once a week only to go to a supermarket, pharmacy or hospital and the streets are mandated with soldiers as if they living through a war. My NYC friends could go on a 20-mile jog if they were actually able to stop guzzling wine and get off their fat asses. We are very lucky in America. With that being said, there is one Italian who took a different approach to quarantine that I would like to tell a story about.
This guy is a lawyer. Not a typical looking lawyer, but a lawyer indeed. He has shaggy long sun-drenched blonde hair and an earring. He’s from Naples, Italy and he spends more time on his little boat than hanging around most humans. He kind of looks like a better-looking, straighter, Italian version of George Micheal. He’s a fisherman by nature and when the word LOCKDOWN came to southern Italy, he took off as fast as his motorcycle would drive him down to the coast of Cilento where he had a little house by the sea. In total isolation, without tv or wifi, he decided to clean the beach.
No one had heard from him in three weeks until a photo surfaced via SMS to a friend. Blonder hair, disheveled look and posing with over 20 garbage bags full of trash, surrounded by nothing but nature on a perfectly clean beach. He said he was sick of seeing the filth caused by humans and decided to spend his solo time cleaning every inch of the beach for 6 hours per day until it was done. He even found cleaning brushes and helpful tools he used washed up on the shore that helped him complete this mission.
This story is worthy enough for an Italian newspaper article but since the Italian government ordered a mandatory lockdown, even the act of him going to another house outside his main residence would have resulted in a fine. Also, all beaches in Italy are closed which would make this story enough to send him to jail instead of giving him a prize. ..No one ever said Italy made any rational sense. I will leave him anonymous for this reason. (but FYI ladies: …he’s single.)
Because of this, I feel he needs a little credit and this inspiring story should be shared in hopes of giving your lonesome boring quarantine a glimmer of inspiration. Try to do something good during this shitty time while our normal lives are on hold. Something! Something that benefits something or someone else. It just might make a good story and bring a smile to your face.
Until we meet again friends.
Inshallah (Arabic for “if God wills”)
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