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I feel a little bad...I forgot about it...today is October 3th: Germany's Re-Unification Date, the 20th
since I'm from eastern Germany and now living in Berlin this is important, for me, my family, friends...it changed everything back then - I was only 7, almost 8 years old, but I could feel it anyway...since then, the world went upside down for many people I know - to the better or the worse, but nobody stayed unaffected. some didn't made it through this time we call "Wende" (turn) in German or lost sight of the tracks in the following years. But for me, it opened the world, which was outside my reach, my imagination until then - I didn't realize it, I was too young, but now I'm really thankful. I'm thankful to be able to read whichever book or written subject I would like to, to wear whichever clothes I would like to, to travel whichever places I would like to. It is true, freedom makes you worry, it's angst-ridden and it overloads you with responsibility - for yourself, your actions, thoughts and surroundings, your future and your past, but who said it is or it should be easy to be a mature human being. It may be easier to live in a society which led you on in whichever way - but the price is too high, it won't let you out, if you're tired of being treated like a child, patronized or just would like to do something not fitting the image.




and I show you the mysterious flower blooming on my balcony but I don't know why - I didn't plant it...unlike the ones above



and the last one - though the morning glory has reached her limit but is still blooming


Date: 2010-10-03 04:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] soothing-sight.livejournal.com
My country history has been so quiet. I take freedom and liberty of thought and opinion for granted. Thank you for helping me become more sensitized to a different reality. It helps me better appreciate what is offered to me here.It is an important day.

Date: 2010-10-03 04:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] clara-maria.livejournal.com
Sometimes I forget about it. It makes me worry, since to forget could be like to erase. But is makes me happy in a way, because to forget means, I live in a better country now. So the world has become better, slightly, maybe only for me and my kind, but it has.

Date: 2010-10-03 04:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] soothing-sight.livejournal.com
Then this day exists so that we may live peacefully and worry-free everyday, but stop, remember, and appreciate on such occasaions.


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Btw, your PV review was impressive. I love language, but not so much literature, in the sense that it is the analysis part I'd rather not have to do. I realise that you now do it naturally, after having had to do so for many years. I learnt through reading you. :)

Date: 2010-10-03 04:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] clara-maria.livejournal.com
Thank you! I worried I've gotten overboard with the interpretation

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