Today it’s Carnival Monday in Germany. There will be plenty of processions everywhere and while I will have a perfect way to work , the way back home will be terrible.

I must admit I’m not at all into Carnival even though I grew up in an area where most of the people are absolutely freaking out during that season. Not me. Don’t get me wrong, some of the speeches are really good and very political but that’s not really the point for me.

When I think of Carnival I always get the following points into my head:

1. Carnival seems to be a reason or possibility to get drunk or at least most of the people going there use it only for that purpose.  I don’t need a official reason to get drunk. If I’d feel the need to I’d just do it. I don’t see the sense in having a special time in the year where I drink lot’s of alcohol and nearly end up in the emergency room.

2. At Carnival  people colour their hair, dress up in a uncommon way and they feel absolutely happy with this. It’s normal for them at that time. But most of those pepple are absolutely conservative during the rest of the year. If they’d ever meet a person with blue hair, tattoos or piercings outside that time they either change the side of the boardwalk or look in a different direction thinking things like „how can he dye his blue!“ „how can she have a tattoo in the neck“. But during Carnival time they find it absolutely normal to walk around with blue hair. It’s like once in the year they are allowed to be someone they really wanna be. This is very sad. I mean if one of this guys wants to dye his hair green or walk around in destroyed jeans and needs to wait the whole year until its Carnival only because he’s to narrow-minded to do what he wants to during the rest of the year, then I really feel pity. I’d rather spend my time with people who have their hair blue, red, green the whole year and stick to who they are.

It’s just that I don’t need Carnival to be who I wanna be. Maybe that’s the reason I absolutely don’t have the wish to go there.

BUT : I’ll be affected on my way home anyways as a lot of those who are on their way home from Carnival Procession will suddenly jump into the middle of the street  beeing to drunk to realise it at all…..so Helau to all you guys and be careful on your way home tonight. Alcohol and funny clothes don’t protect you from getting hit by a car!!