On the internet we are permanently operating in the adding mode. We add without rest. Information, news, likes, pictures, bonus points, and surely more and more stuff we don’t need into our shopping carts. On the internet we are the great consumers. No “stop”, no “no” or “I don’t like” barriers our ways. The borders of bad taste have been blurred, torn down by the hunting masses that follow their appetite for news. With eager eyes we watch each other’s profiles. Still, this pleasure is short and never satisfied.

The secret of enjoyment, bliss and happiness hides in the encounter of two human beings. It is released in the mutuality of this certain moment, when two people meet and look in each other’s eyes. What happens in this moment is still an evolutionary secret. Insecurity and uncertainty set free the treasure of bliss in this connection of two human beings. It’s the mutuality, distance and the intransparency that we lack in the internet which gives way to this enjoyment.

We spent more and more time on the internet. We have not become happier. On Polly & Bob we want to open the gateways to happiness and enjoyment. We want to bring people together in real life. Take the time. Enrich your life.

Economically we are condemned to grow. Each Euro, Dollar, Peso, Rubel, Zloty, Real or Rupi that is created we have to pay back more than that. Once we stop investing in profitable business we go into crisis and devaluation or loss of everything we own. We have to grow the economy in order to make it not crash.

So let us all do everything in order not to lose our possessions? Let us forget about the condition our life is based on? Let us spoil the environment? Let us work 60-80 hours a week? Let us push each other to the next 3 months goal? Let us make our live a hell experience of bad bosses and mobbing colleagues? Let us forget what our live really is about, for the sake of not letting the economy crash?

Once my live comes to its end, I don’t want to look back and say to myself: “you have been the Eskimo that was buying fridges.”
Share Button

From an evolutionary point of view, strangers mean danger. The Warning system go on high alert. The defense systems prepares for action. Strangers are a direct threat to the physical being, but also carry the risk of rejection and other insecurities.

The opposite can be true. The stranger can represent options and opportunities. Opportunities to learn, opportunities for help, opportunities to make new connections, opportunities to build bridges that everybody benefits from.

It depends on attitude. If you look for rejection and reasons for insecurities, you will find them. If you search for opportunities and people, who need you as much as you need them, you will find them.

Everybody is to a certain degree shy. Some of us more, others less. Everybody has this inherent instinct of reluctance. And it really needs a moment of generosity to overcome this reluctance. A moment of decision not to hide behind the fear but instead to confront the fears and take the first step. The profits will be enormous.

How many hidden treasures wait behind the doors that you pass until you reach your flat?
How many hidden treasures wait in the houses that you pass until you reach your house?
Share Button

In North Korea, maybe the most brutal dictatorship in the world, die up to 2.000 prisoners in political labor camps every year. In South Korea die up to 20.000 people in suicide every year.

What is going wrong here? What tends these people to choose death instead of the bright life that was meant for them? Stress, competition, force to perform? What brings them to choose the exploitation instead of having a good life? It looks like South Korean have their own sort of private labor camp with themselves as the only prisoner.

I don’t talk in promotion of the North Korean dictatorship. Thank God, we came over that. We gained freedom to choose, do and fulfill our lives. But is that the outcome we were dreaming of?

You might say, South Korea is far away. But if we look at our world, the western, once called first world, where are we now? Working 80hours a week, having multiple jobs, highly educated people work for little money, people cue up for exploitation jobs. That is real. Depression, burn out and psychological disease keep rising.
Are we on the same track? Was that the freedom we were looking for? Do we also have this private little self exploiting labor camps here around us?
If this is so, where did we miss the train?

…to find the people you want to find in your NEIGHBORHOOD? …to see what is going on in your local area? …to have events going on around you, you can jump in easily? …to be able to earn some money with stuff you don’t use right now? …or to use machines, tools, CARS , and stuff of others? …in fact, to use everything without having to buy it? …to swap and exchange books, CD’s , CLOTHES or whatever with others? …to give the old FURNITURE away to neighbors? …to give a helping hand simply because it’s nice and fun? Wouldn’t it be nice to get help in return? …to find a reliable babysitter or share BABYSITTING for free with other parents near you? …to organize a football pitch with others? Wouldn’t it be nice to listen to the beach boys more often? …to find somebody who sits the cat or waters the flowers, when you are travelling? Wouldn’t it be nice to find a reliable lift, when you need one? …to hear „no problem“ and „welcome!“ more often, …to organize LOCAL DISCUSSION GROUPS , …to organize the KINDERGARdEN bazaar? Wouldn’t it be cool to find a key back that was lost in the street, …to find small jobs in the neighborhood? …to find new flat mates or flats easily? …to forget boredom? …to hang out offline more often? …to find a drummer for your band? …to get advice from trustable people at hand? …to get your COMPUTER bugs fixed quickly? …to share going to the movies, theatres or museums? …to be able to participate in small and COSY NEIGHBORHOOD events in private places? …or to invite NICE PEOPLE to your nice little private event? …to know the people living in your house better and to have a chat more often? Wouldn’t it be cool to find people you need for your film project? …or to practice Yoga in the park together? …to connect GENERATIONS ? …to share food with your neighbors next door? …to use resources better? …to organize your own community around you?

Wouldn‘t it be nice to finally be able to use the uncountable opportunities around us?

Polly is a single mother in Berlin Friedrichshain. She loves to know her sweety in good hands when she is singing Friday nights. She met her new boy friend on Polly & Bob’s neighborhood brunch, Peter. Peter just lives 3 blocks away. She organizes her Mother-Monday-meet-up and found a capoeira group in the neighborhood on Polly & Bob. She is a singer in a Friday night club band. Bob (36), single, born in Pittsburg /Pennsylvania. Bob is new to Berlin and so he is to her. He likes climbing and hiking. He found his flat on Polly&Bob, and got his furniture for small money and partly for free from some neighbors. Bob always wanted to do design, that’s what he is doing now in Berlin. Found some friends and Deutschlenders on Polly & Bob. Polly & Bob are two neighbors, that found out: it is worth it to take the time. Take the time to share it. Take the time to help. Take the time to play. Take the time to do shit together. Fun in the neighborhood. Everything around you. Everyone around you. Make sense, enrich, and share. Make a Difference. They say: don’t walk by like the other day.