The mechanic horse

Europa is very much like this mechanic horse which is standing in Berlin at the central station as an art sculpture. It once was functional and moving but with time it went slow and people then forget to repair it to make it go on and so it is now standing still and not moving anymore.

This sculpture has many faces, sad and lucky which once use to change and now you only see the sad face. Irony it is when I think, it matches Europe very well.

Europe once started as an idea and then became reality and became bigger but like the horse which was once an idea and became reality and bigger, people forget that all things must be cherished. Like your home where you have to clean and wash and throw away and buy new, where you have to paint the wall once in a while and look out for the technic to stay functional.

Yes, very much like with this horse it was nice and good in the beginning even thought, there have been always those who warned about the future of it and question the horse itself and its reason.

So Europe, a bunch of countries who should be a strong community when it is about money, politics and peace became a reality which looks different now as many forgot they have to work together and really cherish for the mechanics inside. All technic has to work as each part is important to make the whole functional. Now we hear a lot of screaming, squeezing and loud noises which do not sound that good. It is because far to many of the actors in this spectacle have forgotten that they should have done some research earlier and had to talk to each other more truthful.

But this crisis is a good thing as it make us remember that things can only get better, if we all act in the same manner. But what manner is right? Here we have some ugly facts. Some want the money, the power but not the work.

To not tell this, the loudest voice is always to hear from those who want you to overlook their miss. Stay blind to the fact that there is no turning back is what we experience in many ways. The propaganda play is on in every country and making it all look as it is the others fault. The bashing against Brussels is always on as long it does not seem so good what was made as a new rule, even though each member said yes. Was it your idea it is always a good Brussels but if not this town and the house of politic is always to big, to slow to stupid and to many rules we don't understand. The truth is, it is not that big if you look how big your countries bureaucracy is and how many members per inhabitant they have. Much more. Much, much more and even less outcome and worse. But yes Brussels has a problem to communicate it's politic and this is the fault of our own politics.

Yes, so many countries are not easy to get on line but it is possible if only all of them want the same. But as I mentioned, some only wants the money but not the responsibility. So lies are what you read and hear from them. Most don't say it aloud but they do think the problems of others have nothing to do with them, even thought they should know better as each bigger problem is a problem for all European. But to see this fact you have to have your eyes open and to admit that some countries came in with a situation well known as not so good. But we wanted to stay blind. 

Now after Greece  and Charlie H. we stand in front of another challenge. They say it is one of the biggest crisis with migrants we ever had, even though we already know from newspapers and Facebook and other sides and ways that this is not exactly true. It is sure a very big crisis for the European Union. As it shows where we really stand and that you can't stay away from making things work and go on. You see now that the technic has not been looking after for far to long and people seems to wonder how could this happen, even know they know how but choose to forget. 

That many eastern countries don't want migrants into their countries, is not really new. But now we face the fact as we must find a way all together to deal with this big amount of refugees who come along. 

Did we not expect that their would come more? Did we really thought those 300 in spring would be all to come? We had sure hoped for but knew already that this is just the vanguard. Will come more? Yes, we have to see it like that, as the situation is just a following step of what is already going on the last four and five years. Those refugees are coming from several countries and in some you find war going on and on and  in other to live is to stay poor all your life or having not a real chance to become a better future. In some we have not at all democracy going on and in some religious has made life horrible for a bunch of groups. So yes of course they do come as they heard from a better life in Europe as we heard from a better life in the USA once. But we still sell weapons, we still want cheap cloths and things and those are the main reason, why people have to flee. So this is also the price we have to pay. How come then all is so dramatic? 

Europe made some laws who made this all grow up. Once it was forbidden to fly- so they took the more dangerous ways. Once we had a wall who made it impossible to come buy boat and people got to die in the sea and no one knew as we did not tell and show. Once we made a rule that you only can seek for a permanent stay in the country you first arrived and so the ol' Europe had nothing to fear as flying was forbidden. 

Now the war is still going on and the winter is on the way and the camps got less money and hope is fading. 

But in all countries we made big mistakes how we used to deal with those who came. Actually most have laws which are enough to make a fair deal and work and to clear a situation, but in all countries it takes and took far to long the process of bureaucracy. Then we put the people on places their were not allowed to leave until they have been allowed and got the papers. What to do such a long time? Then even if they have come through and are allowed to stay and study and search for work- what should one do, if you have the qualification, but no one wants to take you as they are afraid and have other reasons. What if there is no work in that area but you can't move because you have no money? It is true, most refugees have a quite good education as most of them are from the middle class. The poor can't afford it, the rich don't need to flee. 

But if you can't go home or move back to your home country, what will you do? If then a system pays you enough to stay alive and you can't find a job? You will give up mostly and let the country pay and who gets upset about that? Of course those who live and work and pay the taxes. 

And if they also claim that those foreigners get more money that their own people then I have to say it is mostly not that way but in some countries and some situation it is. But who's fault is it? Theirs? No!

But those refugees are open to any job and so they are in fact and if just only as a feeling a danger to the jobs of the little man. And even you don't have to pay them as much as your own people, who's fault is it when they get a job they are more then qualified for and not you?

And then- The children. More and more children are sent. A very typical thing when the tsunami of refugees are on. ( and it is on and no one can hold it back now as it is far to late..) It is and always was the same thought. A child can grow and get money back to family and will try to help the rest of the family to come after. A child is the most worth thing and has the biggest chance to survive the race of life. In all the last waves, children have been taken and care for and also become victims of crime and drama. Just remember all those stories we have read from children from 1800hundred to first world war and then second and then on and on. 

So what and why is it such a big crisis now? Nothing in this is new and the amount of humans are not nearly of the number of refugees we already had traveling round the world. 

It is all the mistakes, the lies and the ignorance of the history. It is the typical acting when you became someone, you don't want another one to be part of it as you have the fear it could be taken away from you as it has happened before. 

It is because of all the mistakes we already have done and therefore we see that things are not that simple and can lead to problems. Some of these problems are called crime. But here we have another mistake- the number of crimes we hear is not the real truth. The statistics lie and papers lie when they only take part of the statistic to have a dramatic line. Even it is a lie not to tell what kind of crimes those are. So people assume that refugees are doing big crimes if you let them in as you read about killing and fighting on the streets. That your own people do the same and more often- you read not or seldom. 

So stories people hear and maybe also see by themself are becoming the whole truth and that means- I don't want them here. They only are loud, dirty and don't care about us and where they live. 

Problem is, no argument will then help to make them think twice. I had such discussion and am not saying it is not happening but it is always a small group of people who make problems and do the crime. Never the majority. 

But the majority was in silence to long too. To differ is something many people do not. Most people like to have it black and white but the reality is never simple like that. The wars we have going on are a history which started around 1800. Just let this fact sink and then that we, the ol' Europe are those who made it start. We still have not lost our arrogance against those countries. But we should learn that they have been better then we used to call them. 

Now this crisis also seems so big as we deal with fear and the fact that fascist minded people use the words of the middle class and from the middle of the politics. People started to get in trouble when they called out their doubt and fell into a forbidden area. Suddenly it started to be not allowed to tell how you feel and thing. But we must be able to ask, what do we do with all those new people here? Who is paying for all of this and how do we get them into work? Why do we put them somewhere in the country where there is not a big chance of a job and how do we deal in our towns with them as most of them of course search for a stay in town as we all know the saying that there are the jobs? What will happen to these people when they meet the enemy they fight at home here? And why is it a forbidden thought to ask that those people have to take and be aware of our way of living and rules? Why do politics still say another religious is part of our countries history if it is not that way? Yes, those people have potential we need and we have to make a plan and give money for making it work and also we must be able to tell them you are welcome but remember we expect you to live after our ways. We respect your past but this past won't be part here anymore- not in the same way. That was never the case in the past, why should it be now? It is therefore also a crisis because we have no plan, no idea how to deal with them. To give applause and say on demonstration- you are welcome- and spend some clothes can only be a beginning. 

Now we have no time to waste and must immediately make up a master plan. But alas politic is acting far too slow and still we discuss how many we can let in?! 

I worry, if we don't keep on and push our government to do the right things, we come into another crisis and bigger problems and then some bad preconceptions could come true. 

In that case as much as I find it positive that my people have open arms, they also are blind to the facts of reality and the times after the five minutes arrival. 

If our country has to less people to deal with those as we avoid spending money, the situation will soon get worse and be more complicated as it already is. 

That only will help the fascist minded. 

Let's make it better as we've done in the past!

Love & Light

Run the world

Don't wast your precious time asking: "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is: "How can I make it better?". To that there is an answer. Said Leo Buscaglia an american Author and professor and he is also and known as " Dr. Love". 

Once I was in Peru and also visited the most famous place the Machu Picchu and was in the rain forest at the Amazon River near Iquitos and other places. 

In Iquitos they have already understood the letters you have read in the beginning. They try to protect the Amazon River and the rain forest and also the indians. They work with organization who let tourist come inside but never let them walk away from the path they have made for them. Making this world place a better place and help them to achieve a better future. They still remember the past and how bad it came to pass them. 

When I was in the rain forest I felt much alive and my eyes and ears became kind of bigger, more sensitive to what is around. I also met wonderful people who I sadly did not meet again, but that is the way it is often, when you travel around the world. Sometimes you stay in contact sometimes not, even when you want it. Anyway. 

When I arrived at Machu Picchu I had hoped for an adventure of discovering and feeling, but it was not an adventure, thought I discovered a place I liked and have a lot respect for and what I know from the history, I have much respect to give to those who lived once on that place but now it is a place with too much tourist, even thought each has the right and should get a chance to see such a splendid area, but then those high amount of people makes it hard to feel anything from the past. The flow which must have been able to feel once, when they discovered this place again is put under the energy and stories and food steps of a hundred, of thousand of people. 

There was only one tiny house which made me stop and feel something which could be old. So this was one thing which made me start thinking how to make it a better experience after all. The second was the history. How our people came and destroyed all just in the name of a god which they never followed or the rules they said this god made. They made the world a place not worth living and took so much away that it is a wonder, that this country did survive. Now Peru is getting back e.g. the woods we took away and they needed a long time to understand that too, because with all the hate such human brings, the knowledge is disappearing and all has to conquer again. I am very glad the rain forest is coming back and therefore does it scare me when Brazil is giving out the right to cut down 80% of their own rain forest. So what do we do? 

Gladly some people got together to fight, but will this be enough? How can we in Europe be so calm and not making our politician tell them that it is wrong. The results, the consequences of cutting down such an area is also to feel at our place. 

Can we forgive the past? We have to, to go and come forward. Can we forgive what is happening now? We must find a way and open our heart for that. But also we must start doing finally the right thing and stop just waiting for something to happen and stop just talking and forgetting acting because we are to afraid. 

Just look around there is a way. There is always a way, and yes sometimes it is a hard way out. 

Starting with spending the money for things made in your area and avoid things with to high prices for the nature and humans who live and produce in the way they made it. Look closer to what you buy and even think twice when you travel how to treat a place. And at least stand up and not only inform yourself, even shout as loud you can to the industry and politic to change the way they act. This last thing will be sure the hardest thing to do. Otherwise we would already stand on better grounds.

So walking around in Peru made me wonder and realize that the world is a wonderful place, even thought there is a lot to do to make it much better and that it is really time to start finding what we're gonna do. 

Now enjoy some pics from Machu Picchu, the mamut trees and some other places and around...:-)

LOVE & LIGHT

The new hate?

One of the question many still have for people who lived around 1930 and after is- how could this happen? Mostly this question is ask to germans, but let's be true it is a question to all of the western world. How could they do nothing?

They did nothing? Well, some tried to avoid, some did flee and some fought for the right to be and stay and told people how wrong it is to say that only the white, non jewish man is the right and true human.  And yes, it all started much earlier and we discover now these days how long some thoughts already sat in people minds. How much it was a normal thing to believe that people are not worth the same and it does matter where you from, even thought already that time people could and should have known better as they realized and found out with science how wrong some of these thoughts have been.

But now we are in a new time and it seems a new hate is growing and growing and using the same lies as they used it before but many of those who spread the hate and hurt people and burn people are young people. How could this be? Where did they learn to think so wrong and to hate and believe that a problem will fade with hate and killing people. 

Is it to feel power by giving fear? Is it to feel stronger by beating up a so called weak human?

Is it that it seems more easy to shout how bad the world is instead of doing good by yourself and those people understood only- do something by yourself because the politics will not and you have to do it right and that means fight and hate and trying to make sure that no one will get in the way?

It sure is that many of those young people have a very simple view on the world and things and therefore have more easy to believe those lies about the jobs taking away and the money wasting stories, even thought everywhere they can find the truth that it isn't that way and even cruelty is mostly made by their own people and not a foreign one and the marriage is not getting down by some gays. But how can we make them listen? 

How can they understand if they don't even listen to people like the president? Thought they have reacted very, very late and just in small and light words instead of taking action and stand up and be clear and loud and believable but power seems to distract them. 

How can we also change the view of people if the press is mostly showing the negative sides, letting the hate pass without a comment as they say it is press freedom and freedom of speech? How can a man  who believes that all people from saudi arabia, syria and so on are bad people  and so they believe they are in fact different and difficult, when the press is telling only stories about those who make problems and it also looks like all of them or  most of these humans are the same, even thought this is in no way the truth? How can we change their minds if young people believe that all in the internet is true, because they haven't learn to differ? Just take those mobile thing. The story that a refugee with a mobile can't have it that bad. Or if they paid such amount of money, they should not be here. 

Yes, some people try to make the internet the place also for making a way for the truth or part of it and telling people about those lies. But how can we make them listen and believe, when they have such a simple view on life and those things in the world and then those simple thinking makes them feel stronger and being part of a group which seems more worth? How can you open a closed mind? 

But then to go back in time, even clever people have been nazis and fascists. 

Yes, propaganda once started, is hard to avoid and to change people later into a new system is not easy to do if able as they have to make believe and to understand and not just say the words they read without feeling. No wonder that so many stayed the same in silence when it is about their believes and the shock of being wrong suddenly is also a reason and oh not to forget that far to many had not only the same job, they went on like they never did anything wrong. 

Rasism has become normal again in many countries, thought it has never for real left the building. 

We have the very same condition as 1900 and also far to many people are acting the same, even in politic they react the same.  The silence is again very strong and the warning words come from some people but not those who should know better. A president, a minister or one of all the others so called important people- they all should have open up much earlier.  How many mistakes we made, it is none of the matter as we must do right now and change what has to be change and do what has to be done and also give the possibility to do it, because a law can only come in effect, if the government gives the money to pay people to do so. And of course to make the law clear and to use it wise and to use our minds. It's a shame that we put foreign people far away from our towns and forbid them to do a step outside that place. It is a shame that we need far to much time to prove and give a chance of a new life. It is a shame that we act blind as a government when people are in need of food, cloths or a warm place. It is a shame that most help these days come from private people and organisation because the government failed again and again and again. It is a shame that we still discuss to open or close the borders, when we know it does not matter for those in need, in pain, in fear or without any hope on their place if they will try to come or not. They will come, no matter what just it matters in the way that a closed border brings more dead people. 

The question is, if the government, the politics are in the way interested to help or not. It is about money, power and international connection. But those who make war, those who sell weapons have to take the refugees who flee from our guns and bombs and the hate we build up with that. 

Yes, we have less wars as ever but more refugees and harder situation in the countries in war and also those who had war. But the western world made it worse in the last 50 years in many countries by our way of acting like an ignorant asshole who believed to know always better. 

And now lets look on us today. What can we do? Shout out? Stand up! Fight the hate but with words, with peace, with love, with songs, with helping people and with writing and talking about that and also with being on the streets and tell our government and president to act in the name of equality! of respect! out of the knowledge that we have to do it with humans and we all did wrong far to long and that it is time to tell the truth and act like that. It's enough! It's enough!

We don't need to change the law, we just have to act. We have to name hate and terror from our own people and give them law and order and show them the right way, the way of non hate and respect. 

We have to discover civil courage again!

Many countries these days have right wings politics and those have become in many places much stronger then 1930! How will this lead to a better and brighter future, if we act the same as our grandparents did? Remember we still ask how could they?! It is the way we do today, if we do not change and these days the possibilities, the ways of finding a way out are much better, much more and open to all of us. No one can say we did not know the results! And after all why not telling and naming the right wing what they are?! It is time and also we have to tell it like it is with the hard left side- they are to name the same and so we can make clear that extremist sides are not humans sides. 

It is time! The new hate has to stop! We are humans and are all equal! We need to look closer and change for real. As fast as we can and as good as we can, otherwise we will land in war and hate and repeat history one more time. This would be a sad thing. And yes this is real now.

Love and Light

Eine Welt Dazwischen- ein Buch

1910 in Europa. Ein Junge und seine Familie ist auf dem Weg in das geheiligte Land, genannt Amerika. Das Abenteuer einer Reise in eine neue und sehr aufregende Welt.

Aline Sax hat hier ein Jugendbuch geschrieben, das alle Erwachsenen sich auch unbedingt an herz legen sollten, denn dank ihres Geschichtsstudiums hat sie zahlreiche und sehr detaillierte Kenntnisse aus dieser Zeit in das Buch eingeflochten, und es ist dabei so spannend und intensiv geschrieben, das man sich sofort in diese Zeit versetzt fühlt.

Der Leser kan förmlich riechen und spüren, wie die Protagonisten denken und den Alltag erleben. 

1910, eine Zeit wo die erste grosse Welle der Überseeauswanderung kontrolliert von statten ging. Eine Zeit wo genau aus diesem Grunde, viele Familien sich voneinander trennen mussten, da nur ein teil rein durfte in das gelobte Land. 

New York, heiss und stickig und der Junge, dem wir folgen werden in diesem Buch schlägt sich in einer Stadt durch, die damals so anders war, als sie heute ist. 

Wie Aline Sax dies beschreibt und dabei den Jungen erwachsen werden lässt, wie sie New York und seine Menschen erklärt und den Sommer ohne Klimaanlage und dem Central Park, ist nicht nur lehrreich, sondern ein Genuss. 

Unbefangen schreibt sie über das Leben, Gefühlsschwankungen, verliebt sein und leidenschaftliche Augenblicke. 

Diese Welt von Europa und Amerika im Jahre 1910 und darauf folgend ist ein Erlebnis zu lesen.

Meine Empfehlung des Tages und der Geschenktip schlechthin.

Licht & Liebe

Master or Slave

Sitting in a coffeehouse and watch the people go by. Next to me the newspaper and I just read again of so many negative things going on in the world. Well, I know the press loves to write more then ever about negative things, but I do wonder. 
Wonder about all the reasons why things happen the way they do. Seems the world again is going more down then up and more in dark times then sunny times. Is this actually logical?
Do we need the bad times again and again to remember us what we should change and what we do?
Why can't we go the easy way? Or is it the easy way we think and then remember that the negative way is the hardest step to take? 
Do we now pay for all the last years were we loved to ignore to make it right. I mean let's face it. History is written in our books over and over again and lies are on our way. To many lies and to many wrong faces. 
How come that we can't leave hate behind? How come that we still have man with fascist mind? How come that all the extreme religion organizations can still tell people what to think and do? 
We never really took the enemy for real after they have lost. To many did go on with their life without any harm to them or even punishment. 
So how come after all the terrible things that have happened that we still are on the same road?
Don't they always say that life does change after those things?

The truth is, no matter how many terrible things may happen it does not mean that people change or do the real change. But why? 
Yes most believe, truly believe the are going to but then the every day life comes to you and time passes by and suddenly you're so far away from what you wanted once and many forgot or have hide it somewhere back in their memories what had to be done. 
Is it the fear, is it the unknown of the new times? Or are we just to lazy or is it that mankind is very good in telling them self a lie and giving reason not to do it today but still telling their must be a change?

So yes, we pay for all the things we have never done and all the things our parents have never done and our grandmothers and - fathers. But now some of you may say it's not their fault it's the politics fault and the industry and the rich man and the banks and the minister who lied to you. 
And you, you did not do anything to make this happen? Well you did. Now some may say what can a man, a single man do against those big, big lobby?
You can stand up and have courage. 
Isn't it crazy in next to every miracle, in every child story, every movie or TV show you can see that it is possible to stand up. You've ben thought but why don't you follow, if you do follow all the wrong things easy? 
Is it really that easy? Or have the BIG once the power and drag you in in the way they want you to be? To be lonely, afraid, unknown of your own potential or have most of us just become victims of our self? 
Why do many think we are so helpless, if we are not. Why do we close our eyes, if it would be better to have them open and know where you sett your steps?
Is it because mankind has thought them self the fair into blood? Is it that mankind has learned to fight a war instead of building up a home for everyone. Has mankind learned to much to kill and to close the mind over the truth? 
What truth? The truth, that is it not the fault of an organization or a BIG thing, it is.... human being are doing it. In good and in worse. 
But the test of power, the devil power seems more worth for too many. To stay blind is also for too many a way they choose and say they are just a victim and can't change. 
It's a lie but we like the lie.
Most do, dont they?
That's why we have new man with fascist mind, new man who build the bombs, new man who likes to see children starve to dead, new man to keep and blind eye on things wish never should happen to anyone or anything els who lives. 

So sad and it is easy to get angry about the fact that people like to be stubborn and stupid. But it never helps to be angry, it never helps to kill, it never helps to fight with the same weapon the enemy has. It never did and never will. 

Well, we all now this but then we forgot. It's like the silence who is around you and like the dead. We know and then forgot. Forget it every time we've remembered. 
So we don't need to think about it but most of our acting has to do with it. We do our choices known or unknown we always do. It is actually impossible to not make a choice so no one can say it's the fault of another one but we can tell the truth of compromises we took and take. We can see what we do and mostly we know where this will lead us. 
So how do we get our self to leave the path of lies?
Because all the lies have lead to far to many wars, to religions who made people stay stupid and telling things which are in no way what the most religion books are telling and after all you have a responsibility no one can take away from you, not even the priest or the politic man or or or. 
And while we all should know that each of us is equal and should have the same rights, we far to often make it otherwise. Most even think we are better then animals, but far to many are worse then them. But am I telling you something new? No. 

But are we Master or Slave in this game of life?
Is it about that? No.
It is surly not to take a side. Even know it may feel like this sometimes.
So it is a choice between our dark side inside us or the other side. We have both side in us, which is naturally cos like we all know if there is sun, there is shadow but we have a choice how big the shadow will be and how we will live. 

Above all this there is the question how to reach those who are not awake? Or should I ask you can we reach them? For we know very well that blind people are not to reach, no matter what we do. An extremist will never listen to you. The politic never cares about you and the industry owner will only listen to money or something else then you. 

So that means we can't do anything about the war regions? Well, actually never in the way we used to.
Meaning? There is a chance for change but it will not only take time, we believe we don't have and will cost a lot of lifes. 
Yes, many will die and many will be harmed at the end many will leave our way and be hurt. Seems mankind need this pain to really say yes to change in real. 
Lots of victims have been on our ways to change things in all the time we know about. Since we know and get to know our past with archeology we know the offerings, the pain, the mistakes and the dark sides, but also many good success and beautiful things have come to us. With this knowledge we can say that in our future there is a positive change possible if we really try and start with our own life. 
Hope. Yes, there is hope after all but for many people help will come to late and in some areas in the world peace will be a strange word for the next years too. 
Its human who do all the bad things and humans who do all the good things. 

To get awake and start living a life which includes others in love and peace is maybe a hard and painful way but nevertheless more then ever what we need if we will have a future. Just now many people are good in forgetting to make a good future and protest against each other and have connections which I remember we had long ago too and were so wrong and are it today too. Just remember the communist where working together with the fascist in their beginning and now the muslim are working with the nazis and all seem to forget that in their hate against another group their hate each other as well and will kill if the time is right. 
A mother will wonder why her child did say yes to such cruel thing and the father can only answer that the kid is blind. 
This has by the way nothing to do with god, it is human kind who did and do. 
So which side are you on?
And again... This is not the question. It is what way will you give to yourself and others to live by? No one needs to judge another man, but we do and forget that we don't see the whole truth. Things have become very complicated although it is very easy in the same time. 
Actually it is just to decide. 
That's the challenge. Thats the hope. 
And that was a blog with not a special topic but with a topic to include many happenings inside. 
I had the feeling that this is needed as we read of hate crime, of nazis and blind people because religion made them blind and of hate because people have learned hate to long and forgot that there is indeed an other way to live a life. I felt that we should really try to focus on the positive things we can do and live up to. Then we have a chance. There is still good things in the world which are worth to fight for, to open your eyes for to open your mind for. You have the courage inside you. Everyone has it. Just remember. Remember what you know inside you. The time for the next change has long ago arrived and if mankind will come to a better future we have to stand up and focus on the good things and remember. Use the good part of your ego and stop feeding the bad part. Stop feeding people who have loved their ego to much and only listen to the power of their own ego which exclude everyone and is at any cost to survive. 
Remember they are only people. Just like we. They only have the power because of you. Fight against them now? No. Fight for what you want! Ignore them as possible. Concentrate yourself on things you can affect. Start with yourself. Love yourself and forgive yourself for the past and let it go. Yes we have to let the past go. No matter what, there is no reason to keep on with it. It's actually stupid to keep on with the past cos you can't change it, but you can change the future by thinking the right things now. Who has began is unimportant and everyone who says it is is wrong. It's the past. Yes we got hurt. Yes we lost. Well make it better now. Let the mistakes teach you to do it the other way. The way of love and peace and respect. Trying to find those who are responsible for all the things in the past and the situation now is like trying to tell your toe that it is his fault that you went the wrong way. Because it was you and only you who did and nothing is wrong but we do mistakes. So stop saying you can't do it because you can but maybe you won't. Yes I am sorry if someone is telling you that you in that case have no right to grumble about your situation, because it is your own fault. So seeking the fault at others is in that way hilarious. 
Again, there is hope. Just remember. You can do it. 

LOVE & LIGHT

Sweden and a new way has open up

What a beautiful day. The sun is upon the sky, it's warm and summer is on it's best. No holiday season for me but a new job and a new town and new challenges. 
Again my ways have lead me to Sweden. Gothenburg is it now where I started my summer work as a nurse for people at home who needs help and for old people in nursing homes. 
Thought the education is the same in both countries the work is quite different. As a nurse in Germany you have to do a lot of work which includes washing, taking off and on the clothes of people, making the meal and then of course all the classic nurse things like all around the medicine, discussion, advices and working together with the doctors. 
In Sweden it is more about administrative working and thinking, talking a lot, having discussion and doing advices and giving out the medicine and also do a bit of doctors work and taking all the blood to the labor. So, while in Germany the work with nurse assistants is very close and you have a lot heavy body work to do, it is in Sweden less working with the assistants and no heavy body work, though you talk a lot with the assistants and tell them what to do, for they are allowed to to more then in Germany- like giving medicine -the nurse made sure before. 
And while taking a blood test as a nurse in Germany is only allowed in hospitals and doctors practice it is a very common thing in Sweden to do. 
A challenge for me, as this was five years ago my last time I did take a blood test on someone else. 
But as it is I have the luck of colleagues some came from other countries too so they know very well the problem you can get into when you start a work in another country and with this I also mean the language. It's best to know more then some words otherwise they will not help you that much for this is too much work for them. They already have enough to do with they own work and so helping you a bit is o.k. but you have to understand them. Especially when you are going to work with a lot of people and even have to make calls you should have a good way into the new language. 

Just now it is the summer job and then the next one till the end of the year, but back to the summer job- things go on a bit slowly in many ways for it is holiday time in Sweden and this means that many people are not to reach, to ask or even the bureaucracy can take time cos many stores and offices are simple closed the hole month. 
And as we talk about bureaucracy, well it is everywhere your luck with the people who work in the offices. So same old story in most countries. Have patience and be positive, know your rights and don't be shy to sometimes to protest what they may tell or write you. 

But where do I live now? Not in Berlin, although I still have my flat there but for not long. As it is in Sweden it is known that you have to have your luck to find a flat or a house to rent or by is a thing of time and big luck and of course the connections you have. So I am a lucky guy to live and rent a room at a friends friend home. Because without your personal number you won't get much here and won't get far as this number is kind of the most important thing in every day life. This number gives you the right to go to a doctor and please for help and not paying all on your own. This number can give you a mobile you need for private life and job. This number gives you the right to rent a house, a car or whatever. But be sure you don't only have this number, make sure they write you in the book of folk- kind of, because then your are to find in the system and then you are free to do all the things I named. Otherwise it is just a register number who doesn't help much and you are paying for everything but have no right t.ex. for health insurance. 
If you now think this is enough with challenges, you're wrong. What you're gonna eat. This is to find out and so I am out shopping on different places, looking on the prices and quality and taste. As much as I already know a lot of the food in Sweden, there is still much to learn when you live here and really have to buy for life. Sweden is after all not a cheap country, even though your wage is not the baddest. 
But going out is really expensive as a you may heard. The alcohol is a kind of bling bling hobby. Be sure you have money on the bank. A big beer can cost you around 9 Euro. Just one. But surly when you're out in summer in Sweden enough people will surround you because it may cost a bit, they do go out, have fun and meet friends. 
A thing I am very grateful for is, having friends, because I already have some friends in Gothenburg and this makes everything a bit more easier and I have someone I can ask. 
Last time, five years ago, I had some friends too, but I was not living in Gothenburg and worked in a little but very nice town called Skara. So it was mostly to be on my own which was fine and a very strange and good experience. But knowing my friends around me and being able to visit them in an half hour is making this new stay here much easier. Cos this time the work and the earnest and the new direction of my own future makes it kind of a hard work to get in. 
The first days I had my problems to hang with all the things and what people where talking. My head was telling me to take it slowly but I wanted to hang with, then my ear became hot for two days because I so much tried to listen, but here you see, you can be good in the new language but it is a difference if you have to deal with it every day. And I was so tired as I was never before when I started a new job on new places. Now all became much better. My brain does not need so long to start and become warm like a car to work best and my ears can hear better and better and all the slang and accents become better to understand for me and the times I feel tire are fading. Still there are challenges I know are coming but I will make it through everything. 
You know last time it was to prove if I could ever live and work in Sweden. 
I found out I could and felt home and do it till today. Last time I decided to move to Sweden but things went another way which I am lucky now. 
Now I tell you that I try it again and in the same time it's kind of moving for real. Cos I belong no longer to Berlin, though I have a lot of dearest friends there but also a lot all around the world. But you know, I just take it step by step now for I feel that if this seems not to work out at the end, it's less a problem, it's just the way it is. So I try my best and see what's coming. 
Maybe that's the real change when you visit and learn and live in other countries. The place you live is a place you live as long as it is meant to be and you have easy to go on to a new place. 
You can read and travel that way, but you learn more when you really travel and with that I mean not only the tourist streets but also to take the sideways. 

Is it about the people? Or is it about the work? I think those both are part of the decision but at last it is something inside you that makes the real decision to move to a new place. And when you have traveled a while and have also friends who did and do, you also learn there is always something to compromise. 
Well, then you .. maybe, you just do, because you feel free to do, although everyone is free to do so but most of us are so into the -but- and -if- and have reason they tell you, all because it's just the fear inside of change, of the courage you have inside. 
Sure many people will move to another country because it seems so much better and the work is better the people are nicer and on and on, but most never really took the sideways, never really stayed a longer time to really see how people live, work or even talk, many forget to watch TV or read the newspaper because if they did they would learn a lot about the country. So for many it is a big surprise when they do the move and suddenly all seems different. Some give up, some learn some never learn but stay. This is the way we do when we move. But to be true, however you do it, it is always right and when the time is over, then a new way is on to be walked through. You maybe live in Sweden and while watching the TV program you learn to become a lover of Great Britain. So maybe your steps will lead you there at the end in a couple of years. Everything can happen.
And now... some pictures I took...

"midsommar" in the park

one of the many ferries 

licorice ice-- you'll want it, it's like a drug!

these are very typical flowers in end of spring/ beginning of summer

this is actually a tram station under the earth and it looks much like being in Stockholm

3 big hotels, but actually it's the same and on the right side you come to the amusement park #Liseberg

yes swedish summers can be light and hot

not without a bus

this is also a part of Gotheburg

part of the central station where you wait for the busses

being inside the university Chalmers which is on the Lindholms piers 

next to the central station we have all the trams... 

LOVE & LIGHT

revolution of love

In the last few weeks I read about several projects who wants to start the revolution, a new one.. of LOVE... But these revolution is not new.. Well not that people never tried it, but this time it is not only needed, it is possible, that we can make it... 'cos things have changed, although the politics is the old one. Going on like the last 50 years, telling lies and acting in their own logic... War.... Yes and the best thing is, they pray peace and sell weapons and I am from Germany, where the politics don't want to be part of war because the people said no, but then... Our politic sells weapon.. not the most one, but exactly to the countries where we want to stop the war for once and forever... Is this crazy... Yes it is and it's time to stand up more and more and together and say....STOP this lie! Stop helping making war! Do as we say, the people! Money is not everything. Peace and respect is to live and not only to talk about! 

I mean... this picture I found, shows very much how our politics in the world lie.... the USA- the country to stop every war when you hear them speak.. They sell the most.... Crazy world we live in.. right?!

So that's why I tell you... look out for those who want to make the "Revolution of LOVE real.." and help them and spread LOVE and yes... live yourself the love, although this might be strange in the beginning, but believe me.. Giving love is so much.. and you feel better, no matter what... and let's really come together on the streets and tell them to stop those foolish things... selling weapons, making war... killing each other in the name of what, of who? No one then the Money. 

Well yes all those war games in the higher politic is also an instrument to make people look away from the real problems, like what Obama is doing or does not have to do, because now Korea is screaming in his game... Well, folks... look inside and see what is missing actually now, what is really going on and how... 

So what you're waiting for?!

LOVE & LIGHT

What about less guns and cameras...?

Hej folks, the new year is now some days old and so it's time to write... again... Hope you had a good start and well I also hope you keep in positive mood... No matter what... 
The last year ended with some bad news on the news... remember the shooting in the school in the united states or the kidnapping in Berlin... seems the world has become more dangerous and let's guess what... they ask the people if they want more guns, more cameras on the streets and guess what... more then before said yes.... of course... it's the moment of most fair and so we react what we have been told all the years for we should not think, we should be afraid... so this is in no way surprisingly but scary how easy it has become to play with peoples mind... 
Want a new law which makes your freedom smaller... just ad a bit fair in the discussion and people will say yes without thinking... 
I'm so sorry to tell you this if you never realized it... it hurts to get aware of blind acting... 
Still too many of us do and believe in the same time that they know what they do and say.. 
Well, "they" made you believe... They? Politics... industry... oh yes, like I once said... the top won't you to be strong and aware... 
Why I care... ? Well, I think my freedom is cut already enough... and I will try to keep what I have... 'cos part of life is to live with some danger of what we think is dangerous... you can't live in a bubble all your live.. you have to try and to experience... and one thing is for sure.. no mistakes, no learning... no getting over your fear, no freedom .. But why should I keep myself in prison all my live, when there is so much to see? 

Ask the people now again.. Do you want more cameras? ...and it will show a different picture... Yes, less will say yes... cos now the save feeling is back... although isn't it stupid..? 
The fact did not change... the world is the same dangerous or less dangerous as it was then, before and will be after... the risk is always there... More cameras won't keep it away, more guns will not help you to survive better, just make you believe it is so, but it won't, cos it can't... Cos You have to keep your eyes and mind open and do your own steps, take your own risk.. no one can do it for you... 
And the most "funny" thing is, all the thousands and millions of cameras have not saved a live... It was always the courage of people itself... It just now takes three years to watch the pics they have made... so a crime today will be seen in three years if you are lucky... So it is very less of help actually, also in England, a county with more cameras then people living on the island... waste of time, waste of money, all because of lies... but saving your life.. making the world a better place? No, I'm so sorry...it goes the other way round.. 

Well my american readers.. I read a lot about your guns... and the way they think many of you believe... Yes, we try to understand, why you think that a gun will make the world a safer place. 
Yes I heard you say you just protect yourself, defend your life, but if someone is coming to steel something in your house, he will not kill you... but then, when next to everyone has a gun and feels more sure with it, they us it.. and so the one who will only steel has a gun within the deal too and then it maybe comes to use, although next to no one planes to do... but then again.. if so many have a gun and it is always ready for use... YOU can kill, but.. do you want to? You write it's the right of an american to protect, but from whom..?
Look around.. are you the only one in the world to be protected? No, but why they made you and still make you believe so..? So much fear... so much stupid fear... Cos what is the worst thing in live that can happen to you... your dead right..? But the dead self is not the worst... so why are we so afraid... Oh to protect... it's in the genes.. Well part, part but then... most fear is made... 
Anyway, what we try to understand is also the fact that you call yourself christians, true christians, but you seem not to have a single faith in good above, even if you pray every day to him... you say and pray love yourself, like ... you know the sentence... well, everyone knows it, right...?! So, why come that there is faith missing and the believe if it happens, then it is meant to be and a thing to learn from... So when you tell you protect your family with a gun, but shoot the man who just wanted to steel your vase... you said you where in fear... so you shoot... don't you feel stupid..? You killed a soul, a man, for what? Wouldn't it have been better to hide or just knock him out, like most of us in Europe or other countries do? 
But then I think of Canada, where a lot have guns too, but there is so much less fear and so much less killed people by accident... like you call it... Well that's what I hear, I read... about you and from your TV.. but maybe these pictures are all lies... 
So why then you have so many guns, so many dead? 
Oh, we still try to understand... but maybe it's time to change your point of view and look around... the danger is everywhere the same... but we feel we are protected enough, we have faith in us, in god or the man living next door. We know that people die, but we also think, no one really planes to kill people when he was young and mostly, they don't plane it when they have grown...

Far to often politics have prayed for peace but played a wrong game, spoke with false worths, even the pope is not telling us the truth when he speaks out for peace... Cos they more often speak about fear... which is made of them self, not from us.. the people... fear through telling lies... of danger, where no anger is or just a little one, or just the normal danger life has to offer us... to learn, to grow... to support each other in love and strength ...

And by the way the more you worry, the more it becomes reality, becomes true, the more you tell people are made, they will be made at your side... but also, it functions the other way 'round... and then you'll find out how stupid it is to lie all the time, to be afraid.... 'cos even if you die tomorrow, we all will die one day, but wouldn't it be better to die with a smile or have lived without fear... cos you lived free as possible and your very own life... 

LOVE & LIGHT