It was in third grade when, by chance, I found myself attending my first, and since then most influential, theatre performance. The title? "Educating Rita" by Willie Russell. At the time I knew nothing about theatre, I don't think I even liked the show, I must have even fallen asleep at some points. It was later that I realized how much this play had affected my psyche, when I saw it again with other cast members, this time at the age of 17 and much more mature now. The second time I had flashbacks, remembered the characters and certain lines came to me out of nowhere. The premise of the play is simple: there are two protagonists, a young hairdresser and a middle-aged university professor . The girl who introduces herself as Rita is not happy with her daily life and tries to change something in her life, so she enrolls in university, believing that the journey of knowledge will make her wiser, opening her horizons wide. The professor, known as Frank, is only interested in taking her on for his fee. So indeed, Frank takes it upon himself to train Rita. Two completely incompatible people are forced to coexist. Frank is a one-note, reserved and hard man, and Rita is bright, full of vitality and optimism. This relationship is so realistic and always relevant that I was deeply moved by it when I was only 17 years old. Rita is a woman in search of happiness who dares to completely change her life, from where she used to comb hair and see brushes all day long and clients with tattoos chewing annoying gum to being stuck in an office from morning till night thirsting for knowledge and wisdom. On the other hand, Frank, a self-appointed authority on his cane who deigns to take on Rita only for the money because otherwise his intellectual acuity cannot be reconciled with a man as ignorant as she. I make no secret of the fact that it has happened to me countless times that I have adopted both roles, sometimes Rita and sometimes Frank. And not only to me, it's happened to you too, and I know it. So I am writing about this play because what I have kept in my mind and soul from it is that it is good not to close our "blinds", to be preconceived in our opinions to the exclusion of anything "different" that doesn't fill our eye in the first place, it is worth giving opportunities to people, jobs, and circumstances, let's not be absolute about anything. How could the all-seeing Frank have known that halfway through his life on this earth a Rita would appear to shake him up and cause him to rethink his views on life. But just as importantly, we should have the courage of Rita when we realize that what we have chosen is not right for us, to dare to change it, not hastily and hastily, because then it won't work, but with wisdom, work, endless persistence and plenty of self-confidence.