Wir haben keine Angst

‘It must have been around the end of grammar school. That was when the starting signal sounded for our great fear of missing out and failing. That was when it opened our eyes for the first time: the great, endlessly wide expanse. There it suddenly lay, open, no horizons, infinite. The future, we called this new-found land. An untouched, white emptiness as our blank canvas. With not a single dab of colour, no limitations, constraints, fences, hurdles. We gathered up all our courage and stepped hesitantly onto the cool, white, thin ice of the not-yet.’