31 August 2019

Responsibility and measure

Dear friends, this second column is also the last one.

The word duration in Chinese mythology

is not expressed for example by mountain, earth or sun, symbols of timeless endurance, but by thunder and wind. Behind this we can find the idea, that duration in the human sense and life is something always moving, something that always adapts itself to the circumstances of time, to our own responsibility and to the measure of all experience in general. And that’s what I do in my life and in the same way now here.

After the last column,

we got many positive reflections, some even very detailed. For that I would like to thank you again at this point. Some, however, expressed a kind of irritation, that made us think.

Because with such short columns, I always open only a small window of a huge building and one that is additionally rather unknown, different and throws light into new and merely unknown spaces.

But if the basic structure of this building, to remain in this picture, can not be grasped at least vaguely, then the open window remains somewhere in the empty space and instead of brightening it creates rather a sort of irritation, which then remains undiscussed – and that is the biggest risk.

And I can not take that risk – so I ask all the others for their understanding. I think that, as for so many other subjects, the time is not ripe for it yet.

Again I am expressing my thanks for your interest, remaining with my best wishes,
Yours,
Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling