Goodbye

Hi,

Last night I was sitting with Jim* in the “Weinerei” We had a fine Meal and some good Wine. A lot of really nice people where there. Everyone seemed to be in a good mude. A lot of laughter, a lot of “deep conversation” was going on. Friends met, lovers where cuddling on a couch. Aaah, just the right environment to relax from an intense Weekend.

While we were talking a man came into the resaurant. He walked from table to table, offering one of these “Newspapers” made by homeless people. As I could see it, no one bought an issue. I did not buy one either. Our table was the last one before he left the restaurant. He opened the door, turned around and said quite gentle “goodbye” into the restaurant -not to a person directly- and rushed away.

I was sitting there wondering, when this man had his last meaningful conversation. Everyone just nodded (including us) their heads when he was approaching a table.

It is a hard job to sell something that the most people buy, if at all, out of charity. You must feel worthless when you are dependent on someones charity. (I know it is good that these people can actually DO something with their talents and time etc. there is value behind projects like these).

There is a lot of information exchange and information flow in Babylon. But to it seems like there is little dialogue between people. How can we overcome the deadlocked channels of information flow which exclude so many people? I have no answer to that. I simple think that it is really odd when a person says goodbye that no one hears that, and that the person himself is not expecting a respectful answer.

*All personal data changed!