Sergio thinks that Russians love to suffer, that that’s the trick of the Russian soul. For us, suffering is “a personal struggle,” “the path to salvation.” Italians aren’t like that, they don’t want to suffer, they love life, which they believe is given to them to enjoy, not suffer through. We don’t think like that. We rarely talk about joy…about how happiness is an entire world. An amazing world! With so many little nooks, windows, doors that you need lots of little keys for. We’re always drawn down dark, Buninesque alleys.
