Don't you know that the secret to understanding a city and its people is to learn- what is the word of the street?
Then he went on to explain, in a mixture of English, Italian and hand gestures, that every city has single word that defines it, that defines most people who live there. If you could read people's thoughts as they were passing you on the streets of any given place, you should discover that most of them are thinking the same thought. What ever the majority through might be --- that is the word of the city. And if your personal word does not match the word of the city, then you don't really belong there.
"What's Rome's word?" I asked.
"SEX," he announced.
“But isn’t that a stereotype about Rome?”
“No.”
“But surely there are some people in Rome thinking about other than sex?”
Giulio insested: “No. All of them, all day, all they are thinking about is SEX.”
“Even over at the Vatican?”
“That’s different. The Vatican isn’t part of Rome. They have a different word over there. Their word is POWER..”
“You’d think it would be FAITH.”
“It’s POWER, “ he repeated. “Trust me. But the word in Rome--- it’s SEX.”
-From the book Eat, Pray, Love.
And so, it made me asked.. What’s the word in your place? In your group friends? Or even in your family?
In my place, probably it would be “AMBITION”
In my group of friends—well, I thinks its “PLEASURE!”… hahah..lol!
In my Family---- GOD

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