Melis Menent

It is amazing how one could find so much of herself somewhere else. Not having had the determination to work on my own homeland before, I have found myself studying something else. For a long time, with many more similarities than I initially thought. Now I do it only for pleasure, without a particular aim in mind. Reading is better this way.

It is my second time in Berlin. The world famous former divided city. I had very few things in mind about what to expect, again. I saw a part of it the first time. It is hard to do everything you want to. For all my travels. But the sense of exploration requires spontaneity. You shouldn’t know where to go, what to do. And that is how I have found myself at the zoo.

Animals in the zoo moved around in their own ways. They were slow, non-aggressive and incredibly concentrating for the awe. I could not stop looking at the zebras. Where they had a bench, you could get a rest. A normal life with breaks. Should have more rest than I did. I still don’t know the names of some animals. The pandas looked like my baby dog who was not with me at that moment. I felt glad that I had my dogs in my life. How could civilisation leave out so much? What could have they done for us, if we let them live? Are they happy where they are now? What other lives could they have? And finally, are there many more left? Where? It is magic to have this in the middle of so much cement. No wonder why Lafarge got the bill recently.