During the last weeks I took some time for myself, mainly to sit down with a book, any book, and read. I read some great books so far and I would like to share sometimes which I came across and I deeply agree with. I am sorry but it is in German and I am too tired now to translate everything now I might do that later.
The text is taken from the novel "Nachtzug nach Lissabon" by the Swiss author Pascal Mercier.
…Und nicht nur in der Zeit sind wir ausgebreitet. Auch im Raum erstrecken wir uns weit über das hinaus, was sichtbar ist. Wir lassen etwas zurück, wenn wir einen Ort verlassen, wir bleiben dort, obgleich wir wegfahren. Und es gibt Dinge an uns, die wir nur dadurch wieder finden können, dass wir dorthin zurückkehren. Wir fahren an uns heran, reisen zu uns selbst, wenn uns das monotone Klopfen der Räder einem Ort entgegenträgt, wo wir eine Wegstrecke unseres Lebens zurückgelegt haben, wie kurz sie auch gewesen sein mag. Wenn wir den Fuss zum zweiten Male auf den Bahnsteig des fremden Bahnhofs setzen, die Stimmen aus dem Lautsprecher hören, die unverwechselbaren Gerüche riechen, so sind wir nicht nur an einem Ort angekommen, sondern auch in der Ferne des eigenen Inneren, in einem vielleicht ganz entlegenen Winkel unserer selbst, der, wenn wir anderswo sind, ganz im Dunkeln liegt und in der Unsichtbarkeit. Warum sonst sollten wir so aufgeregt sein, so ausser uns selbst, wenn der Schaffner den Namen des Orts ausruft, wenn wir das Quietschen der Bremsen hören und vor dem plötzlich einsetzenden Schatten der Bahnhofshalle verschluckt werden? Warum sonst sollte es ein magischer Moment, ein Augenblick von geräuschloser Dramatik sein, wenn der Zug mit einem letzten Rucken zum vollständigen Stillstand kommt? Es ist, weil wir von den ersten Schritten an, die wir auf dem fremden und auch nicht mehr fremden Perron tun, ein Leben wiederaufnehmen, das wir unterbrochen und verlassen hatten, als wir damals das erste Rucken des anfahrenden Zuges spürten. Was könnte aufregender sein, als ein unterbrochenes Leben mit all seinen Versprechungen wiederaufzunehmen?
Es ist ein Fehler, ein unsinniger Gewaltakt, wenn wir uns auf das Hier und Jetzt konzentrieren in der Überzeugung, damit das Wesentliche zu erfassen. Woraus es ankäme, wäre, sich sicher und gelassen, mit dem angemessenen Humor und der angemessenen Melancholie, in der zeitlich und räumlich ausgebreiteten inneren Landschaft zu bewegen, die wir sind. Warum bedauern wir Leute, die nicht reisen können? Weil sie sich, indem sie sich äusserlich nicht ausbreiten können, auch innerlich nicht auszudehnen vermögen, sie können sich nicht vervielfältigen, und so ist ihnen die Möglichkeit genommen, weitläufige Ausflüge in sich selbst zu unternehmen und zu entdecken, wer und was anderes sie auch hätten werden können.
I don't think I have anything to add.
Tuesday, 24 July 2007
Thursday, 19 July 2007
Snapshots from my current life
Here some impressions from my last trips around Switzerland
Berne, the small but beautiful capitol of Switzerland


Zurich, my beloved hometown
view from the lake to the city

along the river Limmat (view from the Limmatquai)

alley in the Old Town

illuminated buildings at the Züri Fäst

it might be a little hard to see but it was beautiful


and finally some pictures taken in Horgen
me in the garden :-)

beautiful blue sky

thunderstorm approaching


Isn't life just great? I l o v e summer!
Berne, the small but beautiful capitol of Switzerland
Zurich, my beloved hometown
view from the lake to the city
along the river Limmat (view from the Limmatquai)
alley in the Old Town
illuminated buildings at the Züri Fäst
it might be a little hard to see but it was beautiful
and finally some pictures taken in Horgen
me in the garden :-)
beautiful blue sky
thunderstorm approaching
Isn't life just great? I l o v e summer!
Tuesday, 10 July 2007
My other life
No I don't spend (or waiste, actually) my time in or with "second life" but right now I am living another life. Not a student life. A "normal" life people my age usually live. With a paid job from Monday to Friday. I commute to Zurich every day which takes me 20 minutes and even gives me the possibility to leave with my Mum in the morning and to talk to her in the car.
Zurich! Not Winti, Zurich! I can even enjoy lunch at the lake, how cool is that?! Finally I am back in the CITY and I am soo glad. I can meet up friends for lunch, I can go shopping, I can return my books to the library.. Very nice! You can't imagine how much I missed that. I used to be in Zurich everyday for over 10 years before I had to go to Winti. At least I get a break from that. No hour-long stop and go by train only a 20 minute ride. No cafeteria and students but colleagues at work.
I am even the youngest - what a change!! And then there is work itself. I have responsibilities, I can handle cases, real cases, nearly on my own and I can talk to the clients. It is SOOOO nice. It's a nice paid, 8 to 5 job which will definitely help me for the future. I already learnt a lot, things I might not have learnt at university. Oh how I love working! I could never be only a student, I always knew that but now I understand that even better. I need a certain "real-life" feeling otherwise I go mad. I like to be able to do what I need to do when I want to do it but I also need some pressure to work best (which might be the reason why I always end up doing things at the last minute...). Don't get me wrong, I like studying, I really do. I like what we learn and I enjoy the subjects. I really know that this is what I have always wanted to do and I enjoy it. Being a student gives you many opportunities and I want to use (most of) them. But I could never be a student for a indefinite period - I would go crazy!
You might wonder what I babble about, I will tell you :-). I am doing an internship at the moment. This internship is compulsory for my studies. Which is a good thing because otherwise I probably wouldn't be around at this moment, I would be in South America or Ireland, traveling or working and having the time of my life. But being obliged to do this internship showed me that there are other possibilities after my study that I have not tought about earlier. I am working in a insurance company. A legal costs insurance. In case of legal problems you can turn to them for advice and they will help you out or pay even pay you the costs of a lawyer. On the presumption that you are insured...
And then there is my other job: my beloved children at the crèche in the fitness club. I really missed them as well. They are so cute and it just feels so good to finally cuddle a baby again. And we have some new ones, very small ones. They weren't even born when I left for Dublin, incredible. Last weekend we already had 18 children at 10.15 in the morning, that was fun - and loud ;-).
Yes I am happy, like most times :-) and I am glad about it. Life is beautiful!
Zurich! Not Winti, Zurich! I can even enjoy lunch at the lake, how cool is that?! Finally I am back in the CITY and I am soo glad. I can meet up friends for lunch, I can go shopping, I can return my books to the library.. Very nice! You can't imagine how much I missed that. I used to be in Zurich everyday for over 10 years before I had to go to Winti. At least I get a break from that. No hour-long stop and go by train only a 20 minute ride. No cafeteria and students but colleagues at work.
I am even the youngest - what a change!! And then there is work itself. I have responsibilities, I can handle cases, real cases, nearly on my own and I can talk to the clients. It is SOOOO nice. It's a nice paid, 8 to 5 job which will definitely help me for the future. I already learnt a lot, things I might not have learnt at university. Oh how I love working! I could never be only a student, I always knew that but now I understand that even better. I need a certain "real-life" feeling otherwise I go mad. I like to be able to do what I need to do when I want to do it but I also need some pressure to work best (which might be the reason why I always end up doing things at the last minute...). Don't get me wrong, I like studying, I really do. I like what we learn and I enjoy the subjects. I really know that this is what I have always wanted to do and I enjoy it. Being a student gives you many opportunities and I want to use (most of) them. But I could never be a student for a indefinite period - I would go crazy!
You might wonder what I babble about, I will tell you :-). I am doing an internship at the moment. This internship is compulsory for my studies. Which is a good thing because otherwise I probably wouldn't be around at this moment, I would be in South America or Ireland, traveling or working and having the time of my life. But being obliged to do this internship showed me that there are other possibilities after my study that I have not tought about earlier. I am working in a insurance company. A legal costs insurance. In case of legal problems you can turn to them for advice and they will help you out or pay even pay you the costs of a lawyer. On the presumption that you are insured...
And then there is my other job: my beloved children at the crèche in the fitness club. I really missed them as well. They are so cute and it just feels so good to finally cuddle a baby again. And we have some new ones, very small ones. They weren't even born when I left for Dublin, incredible. Last weekend we already had 18 children at 10.15 in the morning, that was fun - and loud ;-).
Yes I am happy, like most times :-) and I am glad about it. Life is beautiful!
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