Head was highly five years ago on the first cover by Esquire Germany. I could have written it on every issue since then, our times are so challenging. Sometimes you would have to make a scaffolding under the chin to keep your head up. Nevertheless, my gaze goes ahead, which I can sometimes hardly explain to myself, the situation appears desolate: At the time of going to press, the US government of Europe got lost, spoken out in the German election campaign for a right-wing radical party and was about to throw Ukraine under the bus. For me as editor-in-chief of an American magazine brand and passionate transatlantic, this was-very personally-a blow deep into the stomach.
A few days earlier I had only returned home from the United States. I was in California for a week. I worked around the clock, met friends and colleagues, spoke to homeless, survivors of the fire disaster, to people on the beach and in the Hollywood Hills. We worked, laughed, made plans for the future. Yes, they belong half of this country that are shocked. Everyone had noticed how teams from the immigration authority tore people out of life. Everyone was horrified by the rapid dismantling of the rule of law, at a frenzied pace carried out by Elon Musk and his heartless nerd soldiers.
There is a lifestyle-mental health strategy from the very funny Mel Robbins, Podcasterin and Coach: the Let Them Theory. Basically, this is a small update of stoicism. She says that you shouldn't work through things that are not in your own power. Rather, you should look at what you can influence yourself. Let them do it, I concentrate on myself. This is the only chance we have: Bullys and Fieslingen have to be encountered with strength. Europe will have to find this strength. In my opinion, we will do it, if only because we have no other choice. I'm looking forward to it. I love this continent at least as much as that on the other side of the Atlantic.
