2023-09-01 19:00:12
What is really important? What touches us today – and will not go away tomorrow? It’s the things that have moved us since human existence: happiness, love, family, partnership, time, stress, loneliness, farewell, grief.
BILD columnist Louis Hagen*, coming from a German-Jewish family, sought answers to the eternal questions of mankind from poets, thinkers and researchers. And found a few answers that are amazingly simple – and yet can enrich our lives.
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When you think about the highlights of your vacation, most people think of similar experiences: sunset on the beach, eating with friends, strolling, laughing, cuddling.
I think of Heidelberg. That’s where I was, and with me a lot of people from all over the world. They travel halfway around the world to see what you can see when you open your eyes.
BILD columnist Louis Hagen
Photo: Wolf Lux
I have never seen so many Indians, Pakistanis, Japanese, Italians swarming in such a small place as there. The women’s yellow saris fluttered in the afternoon breeze.
Men dressed in black carried their jubilant children, laughing with them. And then I thought:
Yes, they love Germany.
In Heidelberg, the pearl on the Neckar, the centuries can be read on the walls. Bakers, carpenters, tailors, butchers lived and worked in one house – I know that because people’s jobs were painted on many of the half-timbered walls.
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Families with children and grandparents have lived there for 500 years and have contributed to what we are today. The pride of craftsmanship can be felt everywhere, but also the pride of being Germany’s oldest university town.
I have resolved to pay much more attention to things in the future that have endured for so long.
The journey into our history – what a wonderful experience! Sometimes one is touched by old inscriptions. I particularly liked these:
Always honor the elderly, you will not remain a child forever. They were what you are and you will become what they are.
* Louis Hagen (76) was a member of the BILD editor-in-chief 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-mittel-shop.de.
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