If the day only had 48 hrs

it has been a while since my last post, but things are changing rapidly these days. Windows 7 is out, My House has a roof now, The Fall is coming into germany, and the Summer Savings Time is about to hit pretty soon.

Other than that, I come to realize, that some people have it worse than me. Although I am working pretty long hours at the moment, I saw something very interesting, when I arrived at 6 am the other day, to do some administration tasks on customer systems.

Not very far, we have a fast-food-takeaway. Not something like McD or BK or anything like that. No, something typically german. In Germany we call it Imbissbude. And at 6 am in the morning, it was open, and would have sold fast food. That being not so spectacular, I was working late the other day, and at 9 pm I drove by the same place. And it was still open.

That still being not very interesting, I saw that it was the same woman trying to make a living selling food. She stood in there more than 15 hrs each day. Probably smelling like a deep fryer, and the smell would likely take a year to come finally off. She does that, because nowadays in germany live is hard. There is no golden west anymore. Probably a globalization side effect.

To make her life better I went to eat there. She was from Russia. She said that she came here not so long ago and although it is difficult to learn the language, and the culture, life is much much better than it was in Russia. Hard to believe but true, at least for her.

Sometimes it is good to look around yourself. See how others are living, and maybe you will find, that your life is not so miserable. At least I can say, my 4 kids are healthy, I am building a house, I can buy food for the family, what more can you ask for. Think about it.