Gery Seidl
As a 75er vintage, I often find it difficult to speak of new luxury, as I was in relation to so many other Erdlingen the luxury already poured into the cradle. It is very easy to misinterpret the sentence because one might think that I grew up in a palace with golden spoons and a chauffeur. No, that was not it, but I was allowed to experience a carefree childhood and preserve this lightheartedness to a large extent until today. Those things that might have given me a heavier day one day are often home-made or relativized in the second by looking beyond our borders. So you have to define the "new luxury" both new and luxury.
The luxury of the inaccessibility for my parents and those of my friends, when we have been building our camps for hours in the Donauau, will hardly be experienced by a child of the later generation. The smoking of the first Lianen, which has always ended with nausea, was of course strictly prohibited and thus really interesting. With advancing age then moped trips were added and the evening deadline 23 clock home could be observed only rarely. If you were lucky and the scooter has pushed the last 100 meters, it could happen, not to rob the mother of the already shallow sleep and scurry into the room unrecognized.
"If we treat our freedom like that, then it loses value. Just as luxury loses value. "
Whether the new luxury the possibility of nearly every conceivable and unthinkable place in Europe with the mobile phone on Amazon on Amazon a clothing package, which puts you another for you specifically to get sent, with the luxury I mean my, I do not know. I only had my sweater, because he did not suit my brother anymore and was too nice for the au anyway. Skating shoes were bought in the exchange center with Mrs. Amon and skis brought the Christ child. This resulted in the excitement and anticipation of Christmas Eve and it also gave them the value. Our small train with two circuits and overhead contact line, my father has soldered for us in hours of minor work and also in conjunction with us constantly adapted and repaired.
So you can obviously term "time" and "freedom", of course, in addition to health, as the true luxury. What is taking us away today? Is it the new media that supposedly make life easier for us? I'm really not a backlash, but I'm grateful to be able to control myself when to throw myself into the noisy world and when to give myself time to retreat. Whether a shop assistant in a shop for hip clothing in the third basement can also, where you sonicated eight hours a day with about 86 dB rave rhythm, I dare to doubt. Where is the labor inspector here?
Let's not come to a topic that is the foundation for so many topics that are currently being discussed. I mean civil courage. Stand up and say what you think and know who you are, who is taking you seriously, or expecting to see the consequences. How vehemently I will defend myself against inadequate working conditions when I need the job like a bite of bread, since the credit for the apartment is tied to it. Not only the borrower knows that, but also the banker and the boss. Is this the new freedom that supposedly freed us from the slavery of industry? Creating a home without inheritance is almost impossible for a young person today. You automatically go into a dependency.
If we treat our freedom like that, then it loses value. Just as luxury loses value, when you make visible how and on whose shoulders it often comes about. So is the new luxury a nebulization of the facts, which delights us the comforting feeling of security?
So everyone has to define their own luxury. The luxury I want for our society is that we take care of each other. That we leave our children a more beautiful world than we found them, and that we give the necessary meaning to the time we spend together. Because the second hand is ticking unchecked and is incorruptible. Tick - tack - tick - tack.
Photo / Video: Gary Milano.
