Some Mayday Thoughts -
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
