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See You Robin, That’s For Sure….

Mr. Williams, I’ll see you again one day. Oh, yes, I’ll be very happy to do that…for all the times you made me and a lot of folks think and laugh.

When I heard that you were gone, I got past the surface of the news. It reminded me of all the movies I’ve seen, with you playing a lot of characters…with your clear humanity as an actor, and I think, given the way you actually left, as a man as well.

After all, if you really think about it, Robin Williams was the guy of “Dead Poets Society”,   “Awakenings”, Mrs. Doubtfire – The guy who dreamed about poetry, who wanted to move beyond the “system” that ground him, who had real values and sensitivity. The man who loved his kids, his wife, his family, more than anything else. You didn’t fail Mr. Williams, at least, not in my view, yours was simply the choice you made to bow out, in complete freedom.

I’m inclined to think that there was a sort of companionship with the pain in his life. As a strong (and sad) awareness of life coupled with an authentic smile and a helping hand for others. Maybe there was in him a sort of hope for a similar welcome in return. Evidently it didn’t work. He drew a line, perhaps he realized there was something special missing in his life, that certain something that comes (or should come) from others in return, the reciprocity of feelings, the human side of our existence, which was the role he played many times. I think he wasn’t acting; he was really in that way.

That should make us all think.

Think for a moment about Dead Poets Society. Have you seen that movie?It tells the story of an English teacher who inspires his students through his personal authenticity, his way towalk through life for the people and the Poetry.

In my view, it is so a poignant, haunting movie for the very reason that stages something missing in a large part of our society these days: the lack of values of honesty, transparency, thoughtfulness, dignity, authentic relations, higher purpose. It is no coincidence, I think, that Robin Williams said on several occasions, that that was HIS movie. The movie which perhaps summed up what he would have liked to receive from others. Maybe he just wanted something deeper out of life. Many people thought (lightly in my view) his life couldn’t get any sweeter, in reality his life didn’t give him everything that he wanted.

I couldn’t stop myself from thinking that probably in Dead Poets Society there was almost an omen about the very life and final step of the main Character.

I think, there was an awful lonely man with his flaws and virtues, like everyone else, in that mansion in California. A man anguished by the future. A man who couldn’t come up for “the second half”. He was too genuine to do so, and we all know that often times the most sensitive people are likely to pay the ultimate price. And I think there are many others like him (with or without money) in this global materialistic society.

Opinion-makers in Europe told the press and other media that this kind of sad things happen and belong to the American society or Hollywood Star System. They claim that these issues are part of the America’s values crisis. Ok fine, it may be, but do you really believe that this issue is just an American problem? Frankly, I don’t think so.Let’s face it; the lack of values and the wild commercialization of everything is, to a greater or lesser extent, a global phenomenon.

I might be wrong, but I have the distinct impression that ours is a society that has simply pegged certain emotional rewards to the acquisition of material goods. A society that unleashes unrestrained ambitions at the expense of other people, on account of the all-powerful principles of money and the market, that take precedence over the development of mankind and over the fundamental Values that make human life what it is. Hence, often times, human qualities and values go right down the dustbin.

Is the future all black? No, it’s not, in my view, and I am not saying that out of complacency, or out of an overly optimistic point of view, but simply because I’m dead sure of it, and I stick to it. You wouldn’t believe the great people out there in all walks of life, fighting the good fight.

I think we should just regain a more human dimension in all things, business and life. Just enough to alter the route half a degree. Ok, I know, no “big shepherd”wants a sheep that think for them, especially today, but we have to think for ourselves. We have to; we can, as we have done again and again in the history of mankind, when things got bad. And we succeeded, ‘cos we’re still here. After all, what are we, really? We’re human, aren’t we? And we have a brain for one reason and one reason only: To Think.

So Mr. Williams, you made me think, and you got others thinking as well, I’m sure of it.

You made it! We haven’t actually met in person but I just want to say to you, thank you for all, Robin!

Massimo Scalzo
Massimo Scalzohttps://www.linkedin.com/company/cexecutives-inc
YOU MIGHT SAY that Massimo advises big and small companies, entrepreneurs and individuals on how to craft digital strategies that get tangible results from their tactics. Which is true. You might even agree with few german managers who called him “gute schlepper” (good tugboat in English) because of his inner strenght of pulling people toward visionary and positive goals. However, neither of these statements would be completely true. The truth is that from his childhood, Massimo was fed and watered to be someone who relates to people, is constructive, multilingual, loves the life and looks at the future. And the most amazing thing that came out of his attitude is the ability of conveying the same feeling to others For nearly twenty eight years he traveled and worked in management consulting in eight countries. His thoughts, notions, ideas, speaking engagements come from more than thirteen years as an entrepreneur and fourteen plus “on the road” for Touche & Ross, Deloitte and PricewaterHouse. On his path, he learned a great deal about customer-driven strategy and transformation, digital marketing and design thinking, working on behalf of a-z roster of clients, e.g. IBM, BMW, Frost & Sullivan, SAP, Oracle, Fiat, Salesforce, Accenture, OpenMinds and many other SMEs in several countries and industries. Massimo lives (as much as he can) in the greater Frankfurt area in Germany. He loves his two kids, Massimo and Amelka, more than anything else.

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