Munich moments:Almost everything as before
After the holiday, the flowers have faded and the beer gardens are open, and you can soon go to the stadium again. However, some things have remained
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Gloss from Jakob Wetzel
In the meantime, little throws you off course, you have got used to a lot. But this sight is very emotional. And it comes so unexpectedly. Because it was only a few days in Italy. Back in Munich, one of the first courses dutifully leads to the balcony, to the flower boxes. Nothing flourished in these for many years, but in the past few months, when one was constantly at home, the flowers have been lovingly cared for. Daisies and hardworking lizards bloomed there until they left. And now? Everything has dried up completely. Nothing lives anymore. Isn’t that awesome? Everything is like it used to be. As if this unfortunate pandemic had never happened.
Now is the time to take stock, because it’s not just the flowers: many things are finally back to the way they used to be. You can go back to the beer garden instead of constantly jogging around the area. You can again invite more than one friend to dinner instead of having to read all those books in the evening, all of which you wanted to read at some point. You will probably soon be able to go back to the stadium instead of having to watch the European Football Championship at home on the 100-inch television in the living room, which you bought especially for this purpose. And now you can finally drive the children through the whole city to various sports fields for half the day, instead of opening a computer in the hallway at home and then having to comfortably put your feet up. All these unreasonable demands are finally over.
At least for now. Because a little bit of what is left of this corona pandemic. The one-and-a-half-meter distance markings on the kiosk, for example, are still stuck there, even if hardly anyone sticks to them because otherwise others jostle ahead. Then there are the FFP2 masks that dangle from the rear-view mirrors in a surprising number of cars, just like the fragrance trees. And of course this 100-inch TV in the living room. But if you move it into a corner and push the couch in front of it, put a couple of pillows in front of it and hang a blanket over it, if you then dim the light and look in another direction, then it is hardly noticeable.
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