This article is published in number 13 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until March 30, 2021
Dear manager
I am a mother of two daughters, proudly a mother because they are two wonderful girls even if maybe they don’t I say enough. This lockdown was less traumatic for them than I would have expected: they studied, cooked, strolled and watched so much Netflix. The oldest is now waiting for an answer to leave for San Petersburg from September to May 2022 to complete his studies in the Russian language.
I, after a year in which we all lived in symbiosis and in which the world out there scared us at times, I am torn between the happiness of seeing them do such an important experience and the suffering that this detachment will inevitably cause. This year has us changed more than we want to admit and I, who put my daughters on a plane as soon as I could, than not I have never been overprotective and anxious with them, now I find myself mother hen and I struggle, very hard, to leave them
to go. And I am almost ashamed to admit it but I am surprised to hope that those borders will not reopen them, that she will remain a little more here with us in our personal lockdown. Sandra
Good morning,
I’m Letizia, I’m 19 and I’m attending the last year of high school. From the first lockdown I discovered Vanity Fair that opened up a world for me and helped me understand what to do when I grow up. I would like to tell her that I appreciate your every number, but I would like more young people to be talked about. I’ll explain. What I mean is not just interviewing some influencers who talk about their work and life, but tell the young people and how this latest lockdown has completely destroyed them. I would like a message of hope, because we are lost. I use the plural as this feeling is shared: I see it mostly on TikTok, but also among friends and companions. We have been catapulted, like everyone else, into a situation greater than us that seems to never end. And the aggravating circumstance is that we think we are fine with it. But yes: we close there, then there, then you go back to school, but after two weeks back home because the means of transport have been put in the background, then the curfew. Furthermore, we must also hear the accusations of those who say it is our fault that we are back to square one. I am angry, very angry, because I want to do great things and I feel like I am banging my head on a hard ceiling. I study, and also a lot, because I would like to be that great pride of my parents and because I believe that the new generations can bring the change that is needed. I don’t feel small compared to the outside world, quite the contrary. But this pandemic is putting us to the test, I feel alone in some moments. I don’t tell my parents because I don’t want them to worry. I live in a small town half an hour from Turin. Not being able to move from the municipality, I saw the few friends I have here. It’s not bad, but you still feel lonely, even a little marginalized. So I understand those who can no longer go on, who feel they are in a tunnel that never ends. But I would like someone to say: “Don’t worry, you’re good, keep it up, hold on”. Joy
I receive these two emails after reading the exclusive interview that Michelle Obama gave to Vanity Fair. I answer to Sandra and Letizia. But then I realize that the best answer, perhaps, lies in the former First Lady’s words. To Sandra, Michelle would say: “My daughters are now 19 and 22 years old. The oldest, Malia, has just graduated from college and will soon be going to live alone. Now I see the fruits of my investments: two young women who are curious and who love to experiment and love to discover new things ». She would remind Letizia of her story: raised in a humble house in the suburbs of Chicago, descendant of slaves and then First Lady and today one of the most influential women in the world. Study, he would say. And have the courage, perhaps the boldness, to look beyond this dark period. So, dear Letizia, as you well write at the end of your email: don’t worry, you’re good, keep it up, hold on.
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