They all say be loose our innocence or something else when we grow up. There seems to be a slow transformation from a small happy camper to a miserable corporate slave.

But is it really true?

Childhoods are not as happy as they are often portrait by adults. The daily challenge of learning and being rather totally without about almost everything must be pretty frustrating. Kids are often frustrated and overwhelmed by “our” world. And being small, weak and being unable to create your own life it’s pretty unnerving too.

Plus your body and mind constantly changes, hormones drive you mad and illnesses are constantly looking out to infect or kill you. With every change and new thing they learn kids face a new thing they can worry about - and they do. There is no (mental) innocence in the life of kids, but there is a lot of stress and panic. Kids certainly can worry about as many things as adults do.

This is pure stress - so we should be rather happy that kids can have “innocent fun” and enjoy themselves by playing rather stupid games (while often still learning while playing).

What is this? Maybe just a thing? Or maybe a funny toy? Or something that can scare or even kill you?

Being a kid is a lot of stress, growing up a huge challenge without any real goal or explanation. Suddenly you are big and an adult. People demand from you that you choose your path and job for life without knowing what life is.

There is no such stages in our early life’s, when we are without stress and under constant demands from the outside to grow, learn and adapt. There is no time for innocence, nor do kids have any use for such a “concept”. They already have enough to worry about.

Life is not a box of chocolate, but a fucking long buffet - that you might enjoy or maybe not.

Only as an adult you can create your own life and your own niche to get control our your own cosmos.

But not many adults own their own life’s. Instead they develop a deep nostalgia about being innocent WITHOUT being able to control their own life’s. Many people are deeply scared by having freedom and the ability to make a choice.

My hometown and birthplace München just celebrated it’s 850th birthday last weekend. It is certainly not the oldest city in Europe - more like a middle aged one.

Happy Birthday to you my friend - may the Force and the Holy Dog Biscuit be with you - keep you strong, firm and healthy!

One of the greatest Stars of our time recently celebrated his 75th Birthday - Cheeta from Tarzan. He played that charming ape friend of Johnny Weismüller’s in all the Tarzan movies in the 1930s and 40s. And he even got his own Star on Sunset Boulevard. Wow!

And as chimp he is extraordinarily, because their usual  life expectancy is only about 40 years. So Cheeta, you are the real King of the Jungle!

More? Cheeta @ Wikipedia

He was born 8th of January 1942 - and I consider him one of the greatest minds alive in our times.

When Stephen Hawkings took this zero-g trip last year I was thrilled with joy. I deeply admire Mr Hawkings for scientific work and his bravery facing his disability.

I guess we can hardly imagine what weightlessness means and feels like for someone slumped in his wheelchair all day. Since Hawkings is also a big space nerd this trip is - for the moment - the closest he can get to being in outer space. But maybe Virgin Galactic will take him and many others a bit further out pretty soon.

The BBC News website started ten years ago - so happy Birthday to the world’s best news source online!

The BBC site has won numerous prices, but most important of all it has become the #1 source for many people in countries with ‘bad’ or censored news. This state controlled public broadcaster beats all the big commercial outlets like CNN. And the BBC is one the few remaining broadcasters that keeps it’s OWN huge reporter network running - and doesn’t outsource everything to Reuters or AP (as good as they may be).

Another precious gem is also BBC Radio, which has literally hundreds of good shows running every week. Thank you British TV license payers for letting us non-brits watch, read and hear all that good reporting and newscasting.

Copenhagen 7. September 1987: telcos from thirteen european nations give birth to the digital GSM network we all know and use today. Cell Phones have been around before - but this was the new age - the digital age.

You see above the Motorola Dynatac the first commercially available cell phone for a mere $4000.

Today 2,5 billion people use cell phones. About 7 billion SMS are sent each day.