Tananai made a speech at the UN. Here is the text

Tananai was invited to New York for the Global Citizens Model United Nations 2025a diplomatic simulation for students of the works of the Glass Palace, an event scheduled from 27 February to 1 March.

The Italian artist, on the podium in the room of the General Assembly, closed the opening ceremony in front of beyond 2500 guys Coming from all over the world and at the end of his intervention he paid tribute to David Lynch.

‘Basta excuses‘, it was the title of the intervention with which Tananai spoke of dreams, technology and opportunities, encouraging those present to find his own way by telling his personal path.

“We live in an era when there are no more excuses – he said – the tools, access, possibilities, Everything is at hand. And yet, the confusion increases. The world moves faster than never and will continue to accelerate. So the question is: how can we keep up without losing ourselves? The answer is probably not doing more. It is not about working more, exhausting or chasing a distant goal. The answer is clarity. This is because peace is not a destination, it is a starting point….
Too often we treat success, happiness or personal realization as something that we will reach one day, after sufficient sacrifices, after we earned them. However – he continued – this is a mistake. No great athlete is waiting to be in perfect shape to start training. They begin as they are, knowing that the decision to start is what makes them athletes from the beginning. We don’t become what we want to be chasing it. We can start from there ”.

He then continued: “Let’s talk about all those parts of us who try to ignore. All the doubts, fears and failures that we would like to leave behind. We all know Peter Pan: his shadow runs away and Wendy has to mend it. As children we don’t think about it too much. But as adults we understand it. Too many of us are still running away from their own shadows. We are afraid to recognize those parts of us who do not adapt perfectly to the expectations of the world. However, true growth does not derive from pretending to be perfect. It derives from integrating every part of what we are “.

Before ending Tananai he mentioned the David Lynch director, Recently disappeared, as one of his important references and concluded: “So I leave you with this question: now that there are no more excuses, what will you create?”.

Tananai concluded his intervention lightly, that is, wearing glasses with dark lenses because the future will be very bright.

“Good life,” he said among the applause of over two thousand boys, closing the opening ceremony.

The artist himself then shared the emotion of the event on his Instagram profile: “Work saved” wrote.

“Coming here for the first time at the United Nations was very, very exciting – said Tananai in a video posted by the Italian permanent representation at the UN. “Talking to the boys was a great responsibility because the world is made of the future and from the present that continues to move. I saw very passionate guys. I put my sunglasses, citing Lynch, because the future from here seems radiant, “he added, explaining that he has tried to say the things he considers important:” In this world, while the confusion increases, we must look for our place having clarifying who we are what we are like and what we can give to us and others. It seems to me that we are on the right way. ”

Last year, in February 2024, on that same prestigious stage it also rose Bigmama. Always faced with a world audience of young people, the Avellino singer had told her experience with bullying and bodyhaming and the importance of music as still of salvation.