Some Mayday Thoughts - 2015
Where
were the people? Where was the marching and drumming? And, where
were the flags? They were nowhere! There was only the stillness of
morning. Things have seriously changed.
When
I first came to Vienna, and that was many years ago, Mayday was still
very important. It was the one day in the year when workers
celebrated their values and beliefs, and it was always a wonderful
day.
From
far and near, workers and their families would march in to the centre
of town, and there they would parade, celebrate and be cheerful.
They had rebuilt, they had succeeded and the future was theirs.
But
now things are different. The generations
of those days have become old and moved on, and, the workers of now
are not those who worked hard for our wonderful present. Mayday has
lost its importance! A cloud
of indifference has
settled over this day. This once proud
political occasion has simply become just another day off. Things
have become easy and we have forgotten.
A
long time ago, many hard working people gave everything for all we
have now. And, this is the meaning of Mayday.
Mayday
should never disappear.
Vocabulary
cloud
– Wolke
indifference
– Gleichgültigkeit
proud
– stolz
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