A word that frightens, that puts anxiety and terror in anyone, even those who want to flaunt greater courage, and with good reason.
It is a term that indicates a difficult moment in human life, something that often approaches, if it is not completely identified with some tragedy that it seems, or it is really impossible to remedy, something terrible for this, an enemy that it would be better to avoid than to face.
It is obvious that anyone faced with the choice between a peaceful life and one studded with problems would never opt for the latter, on the contrary it is part of the wishes of good luck that are usually addressed to loved ones, but also in exchanges dictated by pure formality, that trials and sufferings are as far away as possible from the lives of those around us as, it is more than obvious, from ours.
Yet this word so full of negative meanings also has an unexpected index of positivity. It is clear that it is the first and last of the alphabet of existence, the origin of every life is generated by a crisis, just as the departure from this world of every individual is also from a crisis originated.
K????? separation, dissolution, from K???? , to separate, divide, distinguish, order, but also prefer, declare oneself in favor of, approve, investigate, examine, ask, decide, sentence, judge, pronounce sentences, sue, accuse, adjudicate, and to judge, estimate, interpret, declare, question, choose for oneself, make, decide, contend, and argue.
Therefore, not only a meaning, not a single voice in the soul, but the thousand facets of existence united together in the vortex of thought, in an analysis dictated by the logic of the concept, not a single word, a single feeling identified solely with the dismay originating from the horror of the realization of a nightmare.
Separation from someone or something but also, if we like, from a state of affairs, from a mental position. So separation as a metaphor for change, not necessarily towards a state of absolute negativity, at least often not in the long run. All our human experience in our journey on this earth is founded on this concept: Crisis as a source of change.
Not as an indication of adverse fate, or a simple incapacity to manage the opportunities offered by luck, but as a natural, physiological experience, linked precisely to our being, to our human nature, as imperfect creatures, in any case the result of an evolution that is not only that of the species, therefore of the social community, which reflects its millenary path, in every single subject belonging to it.

Crisis therefore as a form of evolution, but also as a positive opportunity for change, for transition. The status within one's own group, the job, the start of a new cycle of studies. These are natural passages, sometimes even traumatic (changing a job can take place after a layoff, a new cycle of studies after a rejection or for a new path that one is forced to undertake, perhaps the non-admission to the desired university faculty ). Obviously all this does not want to consider this concept as positive, it would be absurd.
The term ''crisis'' concretely indicates a neutral concept, neither positive nor negative, but of great strength and intensity: a crucial moment, which can have any outcome, but given that in any case the positivity of the result is not guaranteed, nor the foregone favorable outcome, however invites us to use caution and attention in this culminating phase to try, as far as possible and for that part of the events where our will and our actions can be of help, to work to direct our favor the unfolding of events.
In both the West and the East ?? w?ij?, the Chinese term to indicate the concept of crisis, embodies the same neutral but decisive meaning. There are two ideograms that make up this word: w?i (?) which expresses danger while j? (?) with a deeper meaning, is the incipience of an event, which describes the crucial nature of a choice, of a moment. Therefore certainly not only a positive meaning, but one that encourages prudence and attention, not abandonment to a state of reckless optimism, which would go well with a reckless underestimation of the risks in progress and the difficulties of a changing situation , on the contrary inviting calm, reflection and cautious positions in order to better evaluate the real and concrete trend of events.
Cautious and careful evaluation, acceptance of the risks and of what could be inevitable and irreparable, but also analysis of the possibilities that such a moment could offer or that could be created. A journey to the limit, poised between good and evil, an uncertain certainty of something that will still have to happen, whatever its outcome. In the East as in the West. Fear, yes... but also hope, perhaps not expressed so openly by the concept, but intrinsic in it, like the certainty that beyond the darkness of the night, always and in any case, for eternity, the rising of the sun will come.
Crisis as a climax, as a transition, a counter-current ascent. Waiting…terror and trust at the same time, the necessary strength and the courage to face an obstacle, but also the return to life under a new guise, with a new journey to face, and transforming pain into positivity and a new future.