Life is good¶
Better than most, anyway. Having fun - a lot of it, actually - at the Junge Piraten Camp 2011 with the youngsters. Hmm. I was never that young, was I? Really? You sure? Can‘t be.
This year the camp is a joint effort, not only the young pirates (like me :-) I am a Jungpirat h.c.) but there is a couple of pirates from Hessen here as well. Lots of fun, interesting discussions.
And again I whish I had studied not engeneering/computer science but psycology or sociology. On the other hand: actually neither of those. I should have listened to my impulse and gone for theology. Yes, I actually considered that for a while - and not only briefly. Not to become a priest, I would have followed that other impulse and become a journalist afterwards, I guess. But for the study: theology is more about humans than anything else. And it is to human sciences what biology and ecology are to physics and chemistry: the bigger picture.
Sociology and psycology only look at details when it comes to humans. Important details actually. Very useful, very well worthy to study - no doubt there. But as usual: when you dig deep into all the gory detail, the big picture tends to get lost.
But here I am. A german educated engineer with close to no abroad experience (a few years in Switzerland, which is the better Germany in so many aspects, or would be if they could get their radical ideas about „interlectual property“ out of their collective head, an in arabian countries (UAE mostly). All very civilized and calm and comfortable and cosy and nice.
It is said „beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone“. And civilization is a paper-thin mask we are wearing. „No country is more than 3 meals away from revolution“. Hmm, the cynic in me wants to comment on the hunger catastrophe going on in Africa for decades now. But actually, those areas of this wonderful, beautiful and awe-striking continent that are constantly in hunger are constantly at civil war as well - so the prediction holds true.
The big picture. I really enjoy thes moments that put my life back into perspective. Or not enjoy as such, but appreciate.
When I was an WoW addict, I hung out on Bloodhoof, an english-language server . I met quite a few people there, joined a guild, went raiding thrice a week - the usual addiction behaviour. And I got to know and - in an odd way, never met in person - befriend some of the people that my avatars life depended on in every raid. Most of the guild are English, some Scottish and from Wales and from other parts of Europe.
And now the paper-thin mask of civilized behavior is ripping in England. Calm, cocy, comfortable, all these natural, normal, set-in-stone facts of life: gone. The Mahgreb, Greece, Spain, England -- feels aweful. What the heck is going on?
One of my favourite authors of all times wrote in one of his wonderful novels „And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change ...“ Maybe it needed an atheist or simply DNAs genius to find this very essence of christianity.