2023-09-22 18:45:48
What is really important? What touches us today – and won’t go away tomorrow? They are the things that have moved us since humans existed: happiness, love, family, relationships, time, stress, loneliness, farewell, sadness.
BILD columnist Louis Hagen*, coming from a German-Jewish family, sought answers to humanity’s eternal questions from poets, thinkers and researchers. And found a few answers that are astonishingly simple – and yet can enrich our lives.
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At 8:49 a.m. this Saturday, autumn is here in Germany. That’s what the meteorologists calculated.
So what, dare I say. You can’t just take away what’s inside you. Summer is a way of life, at least for me. And the current autumn somehow feels like summer – albeit a little yellow.
“One morning you smell autumn,” writes Kurt Tucholsky. “It’s not cold yet; it’s not windy; Nothing has actually changed – and yet everything has. It’s like a crack in the air – something has happened…”
BILD columnist Louis Hagen
Photo: Wolf Lux
Beautifully said, but we’re not there yet, dear readers. Most of us still have summer on our faces, at least a little bit. These many sunny days have left their mark. Many happy faces around us are still smiling. It seems like we want to preserve our summer happiness.
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Because days and nights are now the same length, meteorologically speaking, autumn has begun.
We don’t need to be afraid of that, of course not. Because other images are already appearing: a walk in the leaves, eating with friends, candles at the table, pumpkin soup, the smell of chestnuts, potato casserole, cabbage rolls.
And if late summer suddenly collapses: a whole world of delights awaits us – finally beef roulades again, I would like to proclaim.
But now, in the end of the summer, which was so great, let us think of Rainer Maria Rilke, who had great words for this time:
Gentleman: It’s time. The summer was very big.
Put your shadow on the sundials,
and let the winds loose in the corridors.
* Louis Hagen (76) was a member of the BILD editorial team for 13 years and is now a consultant at the communications agency WMP. His texts have also been published as a book and are available at koehler-mittler-shop.de.
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