Eleonora Cova

Athlete, Christian, Doctor, Promoter, Student

"When I grow up I want to be a writer", at the age of 10 Zannoner's book changed my way of life: whatever I did a narrative voice in my mind described the landscape, told the facts that happened to me with nuances to say the least literary. My dream had become writing. Poems, I believe, are the best tool to excite. God, how much I love to see the people that I love cry with joy. Like that time when my grandparents attended my high school exam, dressed in their best clothes, and tears mingled with laughter in their faces. Studies represent gratification and satisfaction for me. I learned that if you study what you are passionate about, the days run fast. Greek and Latin have not always been disciplines but teachers of life. Studying Greek is like learning to live. the Greeks reveals the principle of calokaiagathia: if you are beautiful, you can only be good. And so it is, people's beauty is goodness. The abstractness of Greek thought mixes with the practicality of the Romans. Practicality and abstractness are the characteristics, albeit opposite, that I carry within my classical studies. My thoughts fly, they become complex; it is only when I come to terms with the feasibility of things that my feet touch the ground. I would have liked to cultivate these passions also in a professional context, I would have liked to become a teacher of Greek and Latin, but the Italian bureaucracy would not have allowed me to work in a short time. So I embarked on a three-year degree course not satisfying in Philosophy and Psychological Sciences and Techniques. These were turbulent years, grades ranging between 30 in philosophical subjects and 23 in more strictly psychological ones. During the three years of university studies in Perugia, my hometown, I met Lorenzo, the person with whom I share the happiest moments. He introduced me to a world that fascinated me so much but that was not suited to my attitudes: the economy. Thanks to him, I attended marketing courses and what I learned is interdisciplinarity. Marketing is psychology, art, neuroscience, innovation, music, mathematics. So I decided that my future studies would focus on marketing and communication. Today I am a student of the master's degree in Communication and Marketing Psychology. Actually I'm not just a student, I'm a saleswoman. In a shop in the center of Perugia, I sell underwear and knitwear. That job, sought a little for fun and a little for challenge, is my training to become a good seller, not of clothing, but of services, of consultancy. I want to be a business consultant. A sort of psychologist for companies. The enthusiasm to embark on a rewarding new path that accompanies me to independence is what fills the hours of study. The days, however, are not just books and research. The motorbike rides with Lorenzo, the landscapes of Tuscany, the panorama of the Carducci gardens, the evenings in the pizzeria are the best part of my time. My friends, carefully chosen, each represent a piece of my heart and together they are an explosion of joy. I consider friendship, the highest form of love: pure, the friend does not ask for anything in exchange for listening. Sunflowers, my flower: chasing the sun, just as I run after the sun. Do you believe that names reflect people's personalities? Eleonora is my name, it means "grown in the light", grown in love. 22 years of love. My family has always been careful to vitiate and pamper me. Let's say that the result is a "mammona" and "papona" daughter, but that's fine with us. Long live love.

One day I ended up in the newspapers, I was with my team and the title was "Champions under 14". We had won the most beautiful cup: we were the strongest in the province. Our dunks were powerful and the balloons rolled to the floor. Volleyball has been my greatest love for many years. Each workout was a joy, especially the hardest ones. I enjoyed defending the most difficult balls by breaking the opponents' dreams of scoring points. But life goes like this! There was a time when I went to dance class, the days when I had no training, but I wasn't very keen to tell the truth. My physique was growing strong and muscular, not elastic at all. The shoulders were rounded and the legs were far too tonic. Now I don't train anymore, but the passion for sport is always strong in me. The gym has taken the place of training on the volleyball court. The wind in the hills of Umbria caresses me every time I run carefree through the fields of wheat or sunflowers. I don't think the list of things I'm passionate about ended here, but I am of the opinion that these are the passions that describe who I am.

You think you have a limit, so try to touch this limit. Something happens. And immediately you can run a little stronger, thanks to the power of your mind, your determination, your instinct and thanks to experience. You can fly very high (by Ayrton Senna).

This is a question I cannot answer, perhaps out of modesty, and because in general what I am good at I always make it known. My skills and abilities are always available to my friends, colleagues and family members. I can't find something I'm good at that I keep hidden. I am very unselfish and available to help those who have needs of the faculties in which I am good.