In my previous blog I explained how a clear hallucination stopped me from driving. Yet since I am far from being a quitter, there had to be more to it. The question: ‘Why should I drive a car in the first place?’ became more and more of a rhetorical question. Here is my final list of reasons why I do not want to own my own car and why I do not want to be able to drive: – It is too expensive to own 2 cars in the same household. – It is much more ecological to use public transport. – You meet more interesting people, if you need a ride occasionally. Of course you have to know you...

I will tell you a true story that I remember from my kindergarten years. I must have been 4 or 5, when this happened: We, the kids in a kindergarten group, did something bad. I don’t remember what it was anymore. But what I do remember is that the child-minder responsible for us was angry and sad. And I also remember a bitter feeling of guilt in my heart. So I spoke to my colleague Boštjan K. I chose him, because I liked him (he was a good guy). He agreed that what we did was not exactly nice. We made a plan and went through with it. We approached the child-minder. I spoke, Boštjan was there to...

This time I decided to simply tell a true story I witnessed and refrain from any moralizing: A group of surveyors have a field assignment. They have to measure the ground above a tunnel being built. They use all sorts of high-tech equipment I would not know about. But what I do get is the importance of the so called targets set on the terrain in question. These targets are making it possible for the surveyors to conduct the measurements. Later, at lunch time, they come to pick up the targets and to their very unpleasant surprise, they find some people touching and moving the targets. It is not the...

I was taking a walk along a river the other day and to my surprise I spotted a swan. I came closer to the river bank nice and slow in order not to scare him off. I started taking pictures of the white creature and to my even bigger surprise, the swan started to swim in my direction. He stopped, when he was close up and seemed to be enjoying being photographed. At some point I felt that enough is enough and I stopped taking photos. The swan swam away. I felt a telepathic connection with the white animal and was really disappointed, when five local dogs started chasing him, the owners being unable to...

Do you remember photosynthesis from school? I did not exactly understand it at the age of 12, so I dug deeper into text books and finally got it: »Plants must be the selfless creatures ever.« All they do all their life is work for us. Photosynthesis is a process in which carbon is taken out of the carbon dioxide, that is the gas that we breathe out. This carbon is then built into all sorts of sugars and other carbohydrates that feed us. Oxygen is the byproduct of this process called photosynthesis. Ironically this byproduct made life on earth as we know it possible. To put it in chemical terms: CO2...