Happy Birthday to my hometown.
Now you have the age of 777. Well if this isn't something to celebrate!
Although you could be older then we actually know as it is the case that we found evidence who are older then this official date. But anyway older or not you gotta have a history on your back. Becoming one town as you were two villages -> Berlin and Kölln. Now you have taking inside your belly all the other villages around you which is quite a very differnet history to most towns of the world if not you are the only one made of villages, which by the way everyone can still feel walking through the streets. But you got the best and worst too, inside your liveline. So has Art of every kind found a place to start and stay (most of the time) and express but also facist minds got a starting and melting point in you. Oh two world wars and a wall in the middle and around your town have cross your heart for a while.
Although you could be older then we actually know as it is the case that we found evidence who are older then this official date. But anyway older or not you gotta have a history on your back. Becoming one town as you were two villages -> Berlin and Kölln. Now you have taking inside your belly all the other villages around you which is quite a very differnet history to most towns of the world if not you are the only one made of villages, which by the way everyone can still feel walking through the streets. But you got the best and worst too, inside your liveline. So has Art of every kind found a place to start and stay (most of the time) and express but also facist minds got a starting and melting point in you. Oh two world wars and a wall in the middle and around your town have cross your heart for a while.
I can pretty well remember 27 years ago, you were still parted in two we celebrate your 750 birthday and all the kids in the east part had to wear something traditional from Berlin- meaning being a shoemaker boy or a flower girl and like that. We did remember your past from the 1900 till 1930... mostly...
Yes. How crazy life can be with you and how challenging for every town in the world. Oh you had first just as every city one big centrum and then two- now you have three and actually no real one and above all this you have with the Potsdamer Platz kind of a town in a town.
Always changing your way of being but actually you stood the line as you where a town not for everyone but the outsiders and creative people in good and bad.
Yes. How crazy life can be with you and how challenging for every town in the world. Oh you had first just as every city one big centrum and then two- now you have three and actually no real one and above all this you have with the Potsdamer Platz kind of a town in a town.
Always changing your way of being but actually you stood the line as you where a town not for everyone but the outsiders and creative people in good and bad.
So just now I fear you could just for a moment forget about this, about you as you have become bit too cheap and a bit to much for everyone.
But chances are on all your ways and you got a lot of people who actually care about you and remember that you never need to be a town like the others. Be special, be love, be creative, be one of it's kind and by the way- you don't need to compare yourself to other towns as it was never in your blood. You'll never be Paris and London or New York and why should you. You are a big dame, but a very special and very big dame. No lady at all but you can be smart if you want and be nice too- o.k. maybe your kind of a funny girl and sometimes lady too.
Berlin, your green, so green and have so much space that no one ever needs to feel spaceless.
Which most of your people really do appreciate. And so most of us are quite happy that you have stopped going faster. It does not do good for you.
But now... it is much fun being with you, all the culture, clubs and stores, all the possibilities to have a family and meet friends, all the coffee shops and nice places we can walk, your TV- tower and Funk- tower, your parks and hills and oh your old and new houses and yes all the not so nice buildings too, your art scene and music scene is splending and you give so much creative impulse that it is a gift for us. My dear thank you for so much and much more in good ways and things, even though we sometimes forget it and are overshadows of fear and dark nights and crime as it is a big town with problems as many towns have.
But chances are on all your ways and you got a lot of people who actually care about you and remember that you never need to be a town like the others. Be special, be love, be creative, be one of it's kind and by the way- you don't need to compare yourself to other towns as it was never in your blood. You'll never be Paris and London or New York and why should you. You are a big dame, but a very special and very big dame. No lady at all but you can be smart if you want and be nice too- o.k. maybe your kind of a funny girl and sometimes lady too.
Berlin, your green, so green and have so much space that no one ever needs to feel spaceless.
Which most of your people really do appreciate. And so most of us are quite happy that you have stopped going faster. It does not do good for you.
But now... it is much fun being with you, all the culture, clubs and stores, all the possibilities to have a family and meet friends, all the coffee shops and nice places we can walk, your TV- tower and Funk- tower, your parks and hills and oh your old and new houses and yes all the not so nice buildings too, your art scene and music scene is splending and you give so much creative impulse that it is a gift for us. My dear thank you for so much and much more in good ways and things, even though we sometimes forget it and are overshadows of fear and dark nights and crime as it is a big town with problems as many towns have.
Berlin I toast to you as you gave me a place to grow and find people I will never miss and also people who in their way thought me a lesson or two. Thank you for teaching me to fight in all ways and also for trying all the way I want to. Yes, Berlin you have in Germany the most start ups who succee and you are a place to try without fear whatever it may be a man is curious about. Thought some people do this without a look of what they do to others. But my dear I thank you for always show us the light if we fear the dark. And for myself the tv-tower should stand as long as possible, because it is a fixing point and a sign of hope and orientation. Stand tall and be proud and be real, but most of all be Love.
Berlin is Love and so Berlin loves you!
Happy Birthday!
Love & Light
Berlin is Love and so Berlin loves you!
Happy Birthday!
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