A lesson, that of Max Siren, skipper of Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli, which also serves all of us, struggling with one of the most difficult moments in recent history. For this Vanity Fair dedicated the cover to the most loved Italian crew. At the dawn of the decisive regatta, the challenge with New Zealand for theAmerica’s Cup, the captain writes a letter to his teammates, which is then a letter to the whole of Italy: “Don’t miss the chance to make a dream come true».
Only in this way, in fact, can you win. Because in sport, as in life, “it doesn’t matter if you win or if you lose, until you lose“. John McEnroe said it yesterday, Sirena repeats it today. Which adds: “We are men and women, all of us. We suffer, we fall, we cry. And then, when we despair that it might happen, at some point the sun comes out. It’s like when you lose your loved one and don’t see tomorrow. In that case you have two solutions. Either you kill yourself or you react and go on for yourself and for others. We went to the moon. We went to Mars. We can go upstream. Things will not change if we do not direct them and the only way to direct them is collective solidarity. Many will suffer and many will lose their jobs. We must try not to leave anyone behind and give each other a hand to rediscover our innermost nature. For us Italians it means being reborn. We have done it many times: it is our history, our heritage, our DNA. I understand that for many people it is difficult and that at the moment the word hope coincides with the mirage, but it will pass. We’ll make it».
This spirit, of courage mixed with endurance, pervades every page of Vanity Fair. He is the protagonist of the story of Fabio Cantelli Anibaldi, a former guest of San Patrignano who, after 25 years, has the audacity to return to the places where he suffered and where he was saved. And where she could say goodbye to the man she loved as a father.
We find it in the words of Ma Jian, one of the greatest living writers who, precisely because of his courage, lost his freedom: he opposed the Chinese regime and now lives in exile in Great Britain. A few days after the release of his latest book, The Chinese Dream (published by Feltrinelli), he tells us his story and explains how China is erasing the national memory and the rights of its citizens, and how the West is threatened by a regime that even allowed itself to conceal the origin of the pandemic from the Wuhan market.
The mixture of courage and endurance is also the basis of the climb of Bela bajaria, a Londoner of Indian origins, the daughter of two car wash managers, who managed to get adopted by America until she became a star. Today he is vice president of global tv Netflix, that is the world supervisor of the original content of the streaming on demand platform. That is to say that the worldwide success of The Queen of Chess, just to name one, is thanks to him. Her and her intuition, which soon made her understand that the secret weapon is “get out of the fear of diversity».
Then there are those who have the courage to speak (and write) loud and clear, even to the powerful of the Earth. The American Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1983 with The Color Purple, at the age of 77 he has only one desire left: that politicians rule with the heart. To support women all over the world, to fight for the survival of the planet, to spread ideals of freedom and democracy.
Finally, the most important courage of all is not lacking. To get up, even after a tragedy. Ten years after the threefold disaster in Fukushima – earthquake, tsunami and accident at the nuclear power plant – we are back on those shores. Where, in a few months, the Olympic torch will start: a sign of hope in a nation that, in union and solidarity, has found a way to heal this very deep wound. And an example for all of us, on the eve of what we hope will be a new beginning for our country. Why, as he writes in the editorial the director of Vanity Fair Simone Marchetti, «it always takes a dream. Always. Even when we think we can’t do it anymore».
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