Slovak actress Silvia Šuvadová (52), who had started a successful career in the 90s and even starred in the Oscar-winning film Kolja, one day she packed her bags and left to live in a big puddle. She lived in the United States from 2002 to 2018 and she found the meaning of her life in spirituality, to which Slovaks are said to be more open today than in the past, she told the magazine.
The native of Ružomberok is also surprised by how realistic her compatriots are on this topic. “I’m sure you’ve seen the documentaries, how Americans easily fall for certain types of teachers – gurus or yoga teachers – and they end up being all kinds of manipulators and predators. And every time I watch these documentaries, I’m amazed that this would not be possible in Slovakia. The Slovaks would not allow this, because they would have some common peasant sense. What suits us, also in terms of the spirituality or messages that come to us daily,” he thinks.
The actress is not indifferent to the tense situation in the country and therefore she advised people that each of us should start from ourselves. “It doesn’t matter if someone hates this or that on the other side. A person who feels anger and hatred should go inside and ask who is feeling the hatred. I feel hatred, so I have to work with it. And then we often gain an understanding that things are different than they seemed to us before,” she said.
For Slovaks, it also has a recipe for a better life that costs nothing. He tells everyone to be more empathetic, kinder to each other and to smile at each other even on the street. “It opens hearts and souls and then everything is possible. When a person sees that someone has smiled at them and that they have sparkles in their eyes, I think that something extraordinary can begin, which can even change people’s lives. So I would like us to be a little more open and smiling,” concluded Šuvadová.
