"We shall overcome .... some day", that´s what made people tick in the sixties - but did it really happen, did they reach the goals they had, did they succeed in overcoming the obstacles society, the gouvernment, the establishment had in store for them?
The flower-power-days are over, history. Nothing achieved, war wherever you look, the world is a mess, imperialism stronger than ever: "The Preventive Strike" substitutes decent politics and reason.
Do we have an obligation to try and change things, to push harder to get the obstacles out of our way?
Let me compare the energy we have in early stages of our lives to a battery - no, not the rechargeable type, one of those old-fashioned ones you buy, use and then throw away. Whenever we engage in bringing about changes we use up some of our energy. This drains our battery, we have a little less left to use. Now this goes on for years, and, depending on how much and how often we try to do things, the battery looses power. Sooner or later we realize how much has gone already - and that we need to be careful to keep whatever is left or at least use it more economically in the time to come - because we do not want the battery to be totally out of power before time.
But what about the obstacles in this world? Did they get less on the way? Maybe to a certain degree, but not much at all. Do I feel bad about not "stopping it all"? No, there´s a generation after mine, waiting to use up their batteries!
Get at it, start doing it, but ask yourself - whatever you want to do - is it worth the energy?
The next topic will be Bemerkungen über Zimmerpflanzen. Sorry, tomorrow´s "remarks" in German only .... bye!
and the energy isn´t getting less at all as every cell is hardly wanting to become two.
this is wrong of course ...
but spring is coming. probably.