My Berlin... Bassi

Berlin and Me

Well there is always many ways to see one thing. To make it more complicated, Berlin is unsurprisingly a huge amount of things. Most of which are pretty much un-listable. Even the mood or energies vary place to place. To give a blanket judgement of calling an area hip or boring is kind of foolish and certainly a personal opinion. But I do make judgements. It could be the age of the people walking about, the street art or lack of it, and even if the people cross the road on the red man or not. Well, you would find many things in Berlin. One of which is dog shit on the streets but not everywhere. One thing I found was something within me. Maybe that is what Berlin can do. Possibly it’s not the place at all, just the people. But it’s something and that something is here. We all have our favourite places. Places we feel comfortable. The streets of Berlin to me feel comfortable and easy going. They have a certain calm to them. It’s what I would call an almost meditative though buzzing energy. Not every street mind. Just in what I would call the cool places. Sometimes the places are too cool. Especially when it is -10*c and snowing. But when the suns out topping 35*c, you can taste the hotness. Berliners like to linger in the shade and Berlin does have many places to linger. You can head under a tree in the Tiergarten or you can seek the sun at the Badeschiff. Sometimes they linger around rather than work and actually it all feels very French. Rush hour doesn’t really exist, except if you count the night, when Berliners are travelling party to party.

Ranvir Singh Bassi