Enver Petrovci comes this Friday in the podcast episode of Mira Kazhani. It's a shocking interview. A lesson, or better a few, about life, about Albanians, about marriage and God.
In this podcast, Petrovci talks about the important women in his life, from his mother, to the wife of his life, his close friend, the television figure who inspired him, his daughters or his little granddaughters. He also talks about his book where he would leave bequests after being diagnosed with cancer and about healing...
Mira's conversation with Petrovci should be heard in its entirety, but you can find an essence of it here as well.
For Albanians and especially for Albanians...
"I love the antiquity of the Albanian people. I love the pride of the people, regardless of the fact that we are ready to insult ourselves a lot and there is no nation that insults itself as much as we know how to insult it. This is probably from the complex that never We have never conquered anyone. We have not conquered anyone. I have a lot of respect for the Albanian mother.
Albanian mothers have kept this nation. Not men, Albanian women. No I swear. One of them is me too, shvrhat. My family is not supported by me, but by the mother of my children. My mother made me who I am."
For mother and butterflies...
"When I made mistakes, he slapped me on the butt, and I knew that he was waiting for me, that I had made a mistake. The mistakes were, for example, when I played with a ball, I played in clothes, jacket and pants, with a tie... I didn't have overalls. I used to play football in the dust. I knew what was waiting for me. When she came to slap me, I would run away me. I was chasing him, run away from me".
For the woman who inspired him from the TV set...
"When the TV came to our house for the first time. I didn't know he was called an actor, but I needed to be him inside. Then the TV was with a switch. All the things were live. You didn't have to shoot them and then I saw it alive. I needed to open it. I didn't understand how they got in. It's beautiful I saw her on TV. She was a radio announcer from Belgrade. When I went to Belgrade, she was still working. I told her: Madam, you are the first figure I have seen on television. You are somewhere in the background, I was very happy to meet the first figure on television."
For Valbona, who taught him not only the piano, but also love...
"I had a role where I wanted to play the composer. The director told me: You should learn Ave Maria on the piano, sing it and play it. I had heard of Valbona as a pianist. I knew her brother and through him she put me in contact. We took a break for coffee. I liked her and went out with her. In time I realized that she was only handsome. I used to see her all the time I was hanging out with Valbona. I saw that she was getting in my way, this second one. And I went out with Valbona alone."
About the cancer that prompted him to write a book of bequests and about the recovery that forced him to edit it...
"When I was told I have cancer, I started writing this book, "Heart Bequests". Not really. I started writing bequests to people I love, just to leave some nice sentences. I wrote them, when after 5-6 months , they said to me: You are no longer cancer. I was upset. I said: What am I going to do with this book? I am not dying. I remembered a genius idea, to remove the names. Now there is a book for everyone. On the other hand, everyone who knows me will find themselves there."
For God and the light that saw...
"I went to the left side, "Valbona get up", I told him. What do you have, he said. I don't know, I told him. Come with me. Where? Here on the balcony. I don't know why I was doing that. Do you say that I've never done it in my life. I couldn't see anything. I don't know, I sat down horizon, but nothing could be seen. Suddenly, the fog opened up. I saw a mountain there in Pristina. I could see the horizon. Behind her came a light like a thousand. I thanked her for coming out. The fog came as it was. She said, what do you have? I saw the light. I have proven later that if I had not woken him up this story would have been a lie. I woke him up to be a witness in nothing. Ask him now."
There's a lot more to the podcast than that, so take a listen:
