The curtain falls… or when it comes to an end

It’s all over. Our dream of becoming world champion and maybe even this blog I had to write for school. But what did I learn during this time? First of all: we can’t always win. Germany did a good job, but Spain did better. But I also experienced that everything is subjective.

Sometimes I think that I can’t even trust my own opinion, because it could be that I will have another tomorrow. Everything is changing and it seems as if all things on earth are influencing each other. We are ignorant to believe that there could be even one thing in our life that will always be fixed.

I don’t know whether my blog encouraged people to think twice about something or if it was interesting I was writing about. But at least it helped me to improve my awareness of what is going on.

So I won’t finally say that you have to question everything or something like that, because I would repeat myself and I think you should know it on your own. I also don’t know whether I will continue this blog, because I think that some day I would reach an impasse by questioning myself and then everything I wrote would have no sense anymore.

That’s why I will just say good bye and wish you a nice day.

Tags: influence, reality, subjective

“Deutschland – ein Sommermärchen” Act II

As I’m living in the capital of Germany I know what the citizenship thinks and feels today. You all can imagine what it is: Football! No newspaper without a headline of our national team’s victory over Argentina, no television channel which doesn’t show people celebrating our victory. Though the BILD until now didn’t print the slogan “We are football” we all know what it means to be in the semi-final: Celebrating, encouraging our team to win the championship and to forget all things beside that.

Tags: danger, entertainment, Germany, reality, society, subjective

Do role models still play a role?

Do you believe that we are a product of our environment? That you would be a completely different person when you would live in another city? Disregard the possibility to be born in another country, because other factors would then play a greater role. But even staying in Germany offers us a wide range of alternatives we could have been.

Writing in my last entry about how to react to authorities implies that you know that they influence you. But what is when you don’t realize that they have an impact on you or if you simply don’t matter? I think the first people who have an impact on you are your parents and as you voted in the poll your parents are a big authority for you. But parents aren’t just an authority but also a role model.

People who have a role model usually want to be like it in adapting their characteristics and sometimes even their appearance. On youtube I’ve found a good survey about which role models people have. The answers range from Jesus to Adolf Hitler to Heidi Klum.

Tags: authority, confidence, influence, power

Speak up or keep silent?

“Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience” (Thomas C. Haliburton, Canadian writer)

As the quotation implies, this post will be about authorities and our behaviour towards them. But what is actually an authority? For a better understanding I found this appropriate definition: “An authority is in the broadest sense a social position that is assigned to an institution or person and as a result other people conform to it in their thinking and acting.”

I want to thank all visitors who took part in my poll, so that I have now a small notion of your opinion. Since you are surely interested in the results I did this diagram for you.

As you can see most of you can accept parents and the police as an authority, whereas politicians and officials did poorly.

Tags: authority, power, reputation