Day 77 – Twenty eight

I made it. The threatening 28 have been reached yesterday. Time for a little update in my diary.

I always felt like 28 would be an important turning point in my life. My original plan had been to have a plan about my life by the age of 28. What happened is that I have never before had less of a plan than now. Any plan is limited to the next 24 hours, long term plans concerning vacations reach up to August at the moment.
But that’s okay.

For one thing, this planlessness has created the possibilities to Schwenk 3 days in a row and that had not happened in a very long time.

The first time we fired up some meat was the night before my birthday and it didn’t work out at all. We actually had to finish up the meat in the pan and rescue everything from the rain. But – as the musicians say – if the final rehearsal is shit, the concert will be great. And it was.

Everything worked much better the second time, on my birthday, surrounded by my beloved friends sitting around a perfect fire.

It seems like birthdays in your late 20s become more similar to birthdays in your 8s and 9s and more similar to birthdays of people in their 50s at the same time. On the one hand, we started the party at 3 in the afternoon with cake and coffee (I know, that’s embarrassing). On the other hand, we played “Versteckfangen” (hide and seek and catch) and “kick the can” in the garden (which, of course led to some minor injuries and a pair of broken glasses – like in old times, but with less fighting and tears).

The third day of Schwenker was today and necessary to finish all the food we had bought the day before for the party, which we successfully did. Just the drinks we could not empty – also a sign that we’re getting older.

Apart from the Schwenking and eating and shopping and preparing and cleaning up, our time here in this Saarland shared-house-experience has been dominated by simply hanging out until now. For me, that includes trying to be a good host and make everyone feel comfortable but trying to make sure the group is a good roommate to my parents at the same time.

However, we are having fun with our Anti-Life, living the days without any purpose or direction, drinking beers and sitting around the fire until late at night.