Hello everyone, my name is Marco, I’m 23 years old from Rome, Italy, but I am living in Dublin. I could stay here for hours explaining how my life has changed in the last 7-8 months, so I will try to summarise: when I came here I was supposed to stay just for 1 month and a half, because I already had my future planned and ready to be lived back in Italy, the dream I had was actually the only plan I have ever had in my whole life, I literally never thought about anything else. Then fate decided to mess up everything and wanted me to end the experience earlier (I will avoid the technical explanation), but at that moment, maybe for the first time in my life, I doubted that it was really what I wanted: I opened my mind, I found that there are plenty of possibilities, many things that I can do instead of focusing just on one, so I took the most important decision of my life and I stayed, knowing that it would have not been easy and that I had to go through a tough time to realize what I was really doing and to not make my mind regret that decision, and so it was. A couple of months later I was a new person, I had the chance to really know who I am and what I really can do, my self-esteem went up and so did my energy, after many attempts, I finally found a job that I like and I wanna keep, and here we have the first reason why I am here asking for help, for the beginners the contract is flexy, so I do not have money guaranteed each month, but I want to hold on because, at least for me, it’s really rare for people nowadays to feel HAPPY while working. Today I have many projects in my mind and I know that it’s just a matter of time, I always achieved everything I wanted, I know what sacrifice means, I know what failure means, and I am trying to save as much as possible to finally do something concrete about it, but where I am living (Dublin), there is a serious housing crisis which is getting worse and worse, and I am going have to leave my current room in a month since the house has been sold, and you can look by yourself on the main websites to search for a house how much they ask for a bed… I can’t ask my parents for money because they are quite short now, my father recently retired after 40 years serving the nation as a policeman and because the bureaucracy is really slow, he has not seen a single euro for months. The last option is going back to my country, and this would be the worst thing for me: the way I am changed, the way I opened myself to something new, the way I am motivated now is also because I am far from a toxic environment: the same routine I always had, the same people I have always talked to, including parents and friends, even the same places to see, I feel like all of that was just limiting me and my potential. So here I am: I need some money as input to finally find stability with the house, give a start to my project, and keep something for potential off-time from my job. I do not know if this is going to work, but one of the things I have learned here is that there are a lot of good people in this world and that having hope is never wrong, so thanks in advance to all those who are going to donate, and I swear on my soul that I will never ever forget people who helped me in the past and that will help me in the future, I know I am going to do something big sooner or later, and I will give back everything and more to those who believed in me. Have a nice life everyone.
Marco
My goal: 3500 euro
My Paypal link: paypal.me/MCampagna779