Why I write — My introduction to ILLUMINATION
I was born in December 1970 in Basel, Switzerland.
I lived there until I was seven years old. Then we moved outside Basel in a village with around 2500 inhabitants.
My childhood was unspectacular.
My parents pampered me, which caused some issues in my life. More on this, in a moment.
My parents are from Italy (Sicily to be precise) and they considered a boy to be better than a girl. They treated me differently to my five years older sister. But we had an excellent relationship.
When I was sixteen years old, my sister fled from home to go to live with her boyfriend and future husband in Italy. This event was a major blow to me, as I had an excellent relationship with my sister since I was a little boy. I was furious at her because she didn’t tell me anything about her plans.
It needed a long time to repair our relation to what it is now.
I must give her big kudos to never blamed for my issues, as she was aware of the different treatments my parents gave to us.
In the meantime, I fully understand why she acted like that, and it was a struggle to keep the relation to my parent intact as I learned about their share of responsibility.
