I am still Young; I am only seventeen 

But I have many dreams I think about during my daily routine.

My wish for Christmas is that you could help me to achieve all my goals

Finish school with high grades, so my mum is happy when she controls.

As I look at the Christmas tree covered with Green,

And stare at the lights on my TV screen,

I wish to graduate and in the future study at university.

I would like to study languages and do all the necessary exams

My passion is to teach foreign languages or maybe be a flight attendant.

I also wish to resolve all the problems we have now

Be confident in myself and believe more in who I am, but I still don’t know how!

This can help me during my studying career

And to be cheerful during the year.

I have been nice to all the people that I met, 

So, I wish to be happy e never again be upset.

Dear Santa, as you can see 

being happy is enough for me.

Carmen Normanno

these years have been so hard and I wouldn’t have imagined they could hurt me so badly, taking away the most important things for my fragile age: carefree, calm, freedom, happiness, affection, love, joy, self-esteem.

My wish is nothing more than to appease this chaos, these voices and this hatred inside my head; to finally be able to find that friend who doesn’t abandon you as everyone did and doesn’t leave you alone again to drown.

All I ask to you is to help me find serenity, to look at myself in the mirror with the same eyes as before, to defeat the monsters under the bed, to rekindle the light in my life. Because all I feel is that I am leaving precious years empty but I don't know how to fill them up and get up again if everything approaches me and I feel like I am locked up in a life that is not mine.

I'm not asking for much ... just to go back to my old life

 this Christmas I don't want anything material, I don't think I need it.  Instead, I'd like to talk to you about my future.  Leaving aside my secret dreams, I would like a reality different from the one I live now.  I would like less hate and more love.  Less falsehood and more sincerity.  I wish that each of us could feel free and less imprisoned in a society that we have not chosen, but in which we have found ourselves.  I would like more understanding, more individuality, that everyone could think and say things with their own head and their own reason.  I would like less superficiality, that everyone could go to the bottom of things, feel them, make them their own.  I wish there was more maturity, more forgiveness, that we all learn to see things with less evil.  I want a better society where people are better, with less hypocrisy and more understanding.
- Buonaiuto Miriam

 I hope it’s not too much to ask ,that’s all i want .

for next Christmas I’d like to go back to normal,

I’d like to spend time with my family, with my friends, without being afraid to take the covid.

I want to have fun, travel, I want to live without fear.

I want a world without covid.

I believe in you, merry Christmas.