9/07/2012

Rita, Lucca



I've met the beautiful Rita while wandering the streets of the town Lucca in Tuscany. I am always amazed by the grace, beauty and confidence that usually comes with experience and age, because it is only exceptionally present in young women and girls.
That's why I feel always touched when I meet advanced style women in Bratislava whose life experiences have rather crushed their confidence... Like a while ago, when I saw a beautiful, stylish lady around her 60's walking up Poštová street. Short grey hair, a white-blue-leather combination, just like out of a Ralph Lauren ad. When I stopped her and asked her to be photographed, she almost ran away with her head down with something like "you must be blind to photograph an old woman like me"... Just to make it clear, I am not saying you have to be in the mood to be photographed, I completely understand if someone does not feel like being a part of a blog. But I have met many people on the street in similar situations of saying "No" to a photographer, and I clearly felt this was not the case. This was a case of denial, some kind of shame and no confidence in your advanced beauty, and it breaks my heart... So I was happy to meet Rita, enjoy!

Krásnu Ritu som stretla počas potuliek po mest Lucca v Toskánsku. Zakaždým ma dokáže dostať čaro, pôvab a uvedomenie si svojej hodnoty plynúce zo skúseností a veku žien, pretože v mladých ženách a dievčatách sa to nachádza len výnimočne.
Aj preto sa ma zakaždým dotýka, keď stretnem dámy vo veku v Bratislave, ktorých životné skúsenosti spôsobili skôr nedôveru v ich samých seba... Ako nedávno, keď som stretla nádhernú, štýlovú, asi 60-ročnú dámu ísť hore Poštovou ulicou. Krátke, takmer biele vlasy, v bielo-modro-koženej kombinácii kvalitných materiálov, ako z reklamy na Ralp Lauren. Keď som ju oslovila s prosbou o fotku, takmer sa rozbehla preč a so sklonenou hlavou hovorila niečo v zmysle "musíte byť úplne slepá, ak chcete fotiť takúto starú ženu"... Predtým ako budete namietať, musím napísať, že mi je úplne jasné, že človek nemusí mať náladu byť odfotený na ulici, dokonca rozumiem aj tomu, ak človek nechce byť súčasťou nejakého blogu alebo "tých internetov"... Na druhej strane, oslovila som naozaj dosť ľudí na ulici na to, aby som vedela pomenovať zdroj odmietnutia, a tu to bol jasne prípad nejakého zvláštneho odmietania čara samej seba, hanby alebo nedôvery vo svoju vyzrelú ženskosť a to mi príde vždy úprimne a intenzívne ľúto.... Ale iné som chcela... ďakujem Rite, a nech sa ľúbi!

19 comments:

  1. aaaaw! podoba sa na moju babicku ked bola mladsia :))) very stylish!

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  2. que elegante esta mujer!

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  3. OT, ale v Lucce sa narodil Puccini :-)

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  4. Vyzerá naozaj skvelo! :)

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  5. krasna dama!
    aj si to opat krasne napisala, presne sa stretavam v ceskych aj slovenskych uliciach s podobnymi reakciami, ked chcem vyfotit niekoto starsieho, strasne ma to zamrzi, ze ti ludia nevidia, aku su krasni.

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  6. krásná žena a krásně jsi to napsala... ale napadlo mě - třeba to tak s tou paní bylo ale na druhou stranu třeba došla domů a pomyslela na tebe a dopalo jí to sebevědomí a dobrý pocit! takže good job!

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  7. chcem byť krásna stará vyžla..:)
    enrú

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  8. V Brně potkávám stejné procento vkusně a elegantně oblečených dam, ze kterých charisma prýští, stejně jako těch, které o sebe nedbají (nezávisle na věku). Taky bych chtěla být taková hezká babička :-)

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