Just now some claim Berlin is out now, but this can't be, can it? Just in the end of last year, Berlin was called the best place to travel and live for young and old right now. We even pushed out New York!
It's cheap, it has a lot of culture and good food, and a lot of space, also a lot of different clubs, so you can find your place to stay.
Yes many come to party here into my town, not thinking about the fact, that our party locations are to find between the flats of people. We don't have special areas for them, we have them next to us.
Actually we like this fact only with the rise of the numbers of tourist who are welcome to our town, we can't sleep anymore, because just when the last one wants to go to bed, it starts getting real loud. Why, well drunk people don't care. Especially drunk tourist don't care. Sadly but true.
But no wonder with an explosive rise we are dealing with just now, things change into more commercial, more common way like you find in other towns too, which means, part of the ol' Berlin, why you come here- disappear.
A normal process but nevertheless it changes the town and so people start wondering is Berlin the same place and will this be good, will we keep what we are known for?
We won't, but is this a problem? For short term yes, but then Berlin is always in process, so how does this concern us?
Well the beauty here, always was a special freedom of living and thinking and acting. Now this has changed because of tourist and people who move to Berlin because of the image but can't stand the results of this living so they want people to be quite, to be "normal" to act like they know it from home.
Bad news. This does not function in long time.
So you better prepare to move away someday.
Well, here we have another problem. People who made this town the way it was before the changing - they are moving first, because they no longer want to deal with this. Although most people never stay more then the typical 10 till 20 years, and yes- some would never move if the character of the town did not change that much like it already did.
So is Berlin out now? Not yet, this is just writing of some papers to get affection, but we in Berlin have to think about how to deal with the future. How much is too much? We have a lot of space so we can deal quite well with this but just imagine, four years ago we had only 3 Million people making their holiday here and now we have had last year over 12 mill. and with all the weekend tourist and those who come just one day we had over 25.
That's a rise!
So imagine the rise of prices, the rent, the cost for a living, the money you pay for a flat and in the same time no one earns more money here but more and more people are moving into town.
Thought this sounds tuff you still can like this town very much and get quality, good way of living, party and intellectual input.
One of the things who shows to everyone how much this town is working with the way we are living are the pics on the walls you can find everywhere in town. A day would not be enough to catch them all. Some are just funny, some are political, some tell you a story and some talk to you as a tourist. The creative scene here is watching everyone and Berlin is watching you.
And Berlin people don't really care if the town is cool, in or out. It's what happens here. It's how this will go on which will make this town. Just now, we don't know if this will get into a better and still free future. We can only try. Cos many who came here are not here anymore because they have to. They can go whenever they want.
The town was, yes, a bit tired of having to be something, then being shocked by the storm which came and also from the politic, who made things which make us kind of angry.
Now the town is awakening.
We discover our little stores who sell things made of real quality and not with the price of cheap production, of working children, of damaging nature in every possible way.
We are coming back to real food and true acting and are going on to be stronger, finding our back and soul. We look closer and closer and around.
Because we know you can learn from other towns.
Oh yes the mass will be what it always was...I have no illusions about that... it will following the strongest path. Which one this will be? We're gonna see!
But isn't that the adventure of life? Going step by step, following a path, until you learn there is only one to follow... your own and then step by step going through the joy and fear in life. Life the big and in the same time little one. We can't hide no matter where we are.
Just ask ourself what are we going to do. What are we able to deal with.
Questions of people, of a town, of a life.
But how much we are crowing, how much we are awakening... those pictures will give you a little idea of it.
Watch and enjoy...
LOVE & LIGHT
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