The importance of not being selfish

It’s almost Christmas. I have to admit: I’m a big fan of christmas holidays. I don’t know, it seems to me that during this period you can breathe a different air in the streets, people looks different. Maybe it’s because of the lights, or because a lot of kids are in the streets and they seem happier than the month before.

I even like to buy some presents for people I love, to prepare christmas tree (Giulia and I were a little bit in advance, since our tree was up and running on november) and to go through Christmas’ markets. I don’t understand why people are so worried to make presents for 150 people because “they have to”. No, you don’t have to, but it’s a long story and I don’t wanna talk about that.

Happy Christmas

photo by JB Braendel

So, this year was really amazing for me: I moved to Berlin with Giulia, I had and have a nice and warm house, I had an amazing job in an amazing company, I had the possibility of working as SEO even if I am a molecular biologist, I had an amazing team working with me….I mean, AMAZING is the word.

For all these reasons, I decided I wanted to donate something for two reasons: for the very first time I can give some money I earned working; secondly, I simply wanna help somebody.

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