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The Mediterranean lifestyle is an exceptionally great lifestyle. It is rooted in a magnificent history. That being said, the adoption of “la vita é Bella” by those within the Anglo-sphere is kind of perverted. Running up wine bills and eating expensive meals isn’t (1)
what that beautiful life is all about. While it does include magnificent cuisine and aesthetic, it also includes the family and fraternity. It is founded upon the arts and a deep appreciation for ars liberalis. An affection for the Divine so great that it permeates (2)
every facet of life. If all you’re looking for is fancy dinning and expensive beverages, you must accept the fact that you aren’t seeking “la vita è bella” in its truest form. The life which is beautiful is what it is because of determination to seek good leisure, the true (3)
the good, and the beautiful within the context of our fragile human lives. Life is worth living, but we must do well to love and to live properly.We have no choice in the matter.We do it right, or we fail. All of this, in the context of our understandings of the point of life (4)
, and I mean “point” as in what the end goal of life here (salvation), can make for beautiful time. Not just existing, but flourishing. For the sake of those who have come before us (in faith and history) we must not pervert the culture which they gifted to us. (5)
