031 A new me, after all
all the classes of secondary school

“Allow yourself to feel bad. Give yourself permission to feel it, to embrace it, and understand it. And then shine, illuminate everyone with what you’ve learned.” It’s like a weight that crushes your chest, takes your breath away, closes your stomach, and opens scars that you then try to hide from others out of fear, out of shame, because you yourself don’t know how to name the disaster you feel inside. It’s bullying. If you’re a victim of it, you can have whatever character you want, or live in a nice house, or be the daughter of whoever you want, even the daughter of a famous coach, but you become a victim like all the others. Camilla Mancini (Free to Be Me, Mondadori) was a victim of it for a long, too long time. Today she feels different; she went through a complex journey, and then she decided to save herself, every day. Today she is finally free. Despite everything.