Looking to the future with confidence: the granddaughter would like to have 100 children and hair dyed red one day

Columnist Regula Waldmeier believes that confidence plays an important role, especially in times of Corona.

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My older granddaughter, eight and a half years old, wants to be a famous singer and farmer when she is big, with lots of animals. The younger one, four and a half years old, formulates two professional goals, as the older one does so: a policewoman and a doctor. She wants 100 children and hair dyed red. The girls look cheerfully into the future, confident that their plans will come true.

The patient waits in the hospital bed to be informed how far the cancer has already spread in her body. When she gets well, there are three things she desperately wants to do. For example living in New York once. “D’s Chlüüsers Rosmaryy” would, if it had “powder”, go to “Ziiri und Aargäü” so “gheerig ga wirgä”.

Annett Louisan and Stefan Eicher sing in a duet: “Now would be a good time to say, don’t go yet, stay here. But everything stays quiet. ” Maybe they’ll say it later, when they have time, when it’s better, when … sometime in the future maybe. Man is probably the only person on earth who knows that there is a future. “And also that he will die,” object my discussion partners. That can’t be denied, a sad mortgage or even an opportunity? The future holds the possibility for hope, for wishes, for confidence. “And she takes responsibility for shaping them,” adds my counterpart. I also agree with that.

Over time, the rain will subside

Having hope is comforting: in time, the heartache will not hurt so much, the wound will heal, the rain will subside. Hopefully “d’s Rosmaryy” will also have “powder” one day and be able to travel to Zurich and the Aargau. Hopefully the patient will recover. Hopefully we will love each other for a long time.

In my opinion, wishes are the salt of life. They make us dream, wishes come true, at some point. And certainly where we are, even in our small world, in everyday life, at work, in the family, we have to make decisions every day, knowing that we are jointly responsible for the future.

In these times I exercise confidence. I am confident that if we all make an effort, the crisis will pass. Confident that the world can also become healthier with the human species if we all try hard for it. Confident that my granddaughters can fulfill their career aspirations, also because they can go to school, they are protected, they are loved, they can eat healthily because the “big ones” have finally learned to take care of the environment.

I confidently consider what my contribution should be in every situation. Black painters have no chance against confidence, because confidence is healthy, makes you healthy. So I close my reflections with Nelson Mandela’s famous quote: “May your decisions reflect your hopes, not your fears”. Often quoted, I know – but fitting here for me.

Regula Waldmeier, Pensioner

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