the toxicity of our city

I recently read an article from the World Health Organization and was baffled to find out that apparently 99% of humanity breaths air that exceeds WHO air quality limits and people’s lives are therefore being threatened by the omnipresent toxicity.

I found a list of the cities with the most toxic air in the world on the Internet. The top 3 are:

1) Dammam, Saudi Arabia

2) Lahore, Pakistan

3) Dhaka, Bangladesh

The top 20 almost exclusively consisted of cities in India and China. Cities in Africa and South America would probably also be higher up on the list, but they lack air pollution reporting tools so it’s difficult to know the pollution levels in many of the cities there.

Berlin was not on the list, although the air here is polluted as well. People in Neukölln, Friedrichshain (shiaat), Kreuzberg and Mitte are inhaling the most toxic air.

If you feel like breathing some high-quality air then go to Zehlendorf, Treptow or Köpenick. The air is better there because the population density is a lot lower and furthermore it’s very green out there.

But Berlin ain’t just toxic when talking about the air we breathe. The people can be toxic as well. Berlin is one of the unfriendliest cities in Germany. I was actually surprised when reading an article about the unfriendliest cities in Germany on the Internet and it said that Berlin was only placed 7^th.

Here’s the list:

1) Essen 🎉

2) Dresden

3) Frankfurt

4) Cologne

5) Dortmund

6) Munich

7) Berlin

8) Stuttgart

9) Bielefeld

(The list randomly stopped at nr. 9. Why not top 10? Triggers my OCD’s pretty hard to be honest)

But yeah, people here in Berlin can be toxic. Why is that so? Maybe it's the weather. Maybe these people have unresolved issues. Maybe they are seeking for attention. Who honestly knows.

I was recently in a situation myself (and I would like to take this opportuity to thank my self-control for me remaining so calm) with a person who was toxic in my eyes. I would like to tell you about this situation I've been in.

The following might be disturbing because I didn’t hold back my emotions and used more curse words than yo momma when giving birth to you and your big ass head. 

You have been warned.

I’m at the library (where I go to, to be able to concentrate and to write) right now. The dude sitting next to me just pulled out a humongous paper bag from his backpack and he’s been unloading croissants from that fucking paper bag for the last ten minutes. It's his third one right now and the bag still looks half full. I wonder how many it will be in the end (I will keep counting).

What kind of moron do you have to be to go to the library to eat your fucking croissants. A library is a place where people go to, to read and to study in silence or did I miss something? There are people here struggling to stuff their little brains with knowledge for math tests and this absolute specimen is completely just blasting through life with his croissants as if there’s no tomorrow and as if these were the last fucking croissants on planet earth. It’s disgusting.

And this dude is like 55. What the fuck is he doing with his life, if he has time to sit in the library at 5PM on a Friday afternoon to eat his shitty croissants (number four by now). I know that that’s probably age discrimination, but I couldn’t give less fucks at this point. He’s intruding my personal space of well-deserved silence in an environment where unnecessary noise should not exist but rather be punished.

(time leap)

When he had finished his fucking croissants, he crumbled up the paper bag in the noisiest fashion and stuffed it back into his backpack. By the way, I had been right about the bag looking as if it was still half full. This absolute degenerate devoured a total of 6 croissants. Happily smudging the libraries books with his greasy little fingers. What an animal.

I had to do something for my mental well-being at this point. I couldn't just take this. I had to act. I thought about what Sigmund Freud once said. “Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”

The following sequence is completely made up and maaybe a bit exaggerated.

I walk up to this croissant-devouring creature and ask him nicely "you, what do you own, the world? Did your mom not give you enough love?" He looks at me and says something incomprehensible due to the fact that his food hatch is stuffed with croissant to the brim. I am disgusted and take another croissant from the paper bag and shove it in his face. This creature of a man seems to actually like it. He starts to moan. The other people who’d just been watching up until now all get up, walk over, grab into the bag, pull out a croissant, and shove it down the creature’s throat. He gets so aroused by his fucking croissants and all this attention he’d been craving for, that this buggerheaded perv shitterally soils his pants, gets up and legs it.

How deep do you have to have your head down the dumpster and what kinda fucking inbred do you have to be to become this kind of person? Fucking piece of shit.

Wow! It feels good to let off a little steam.

I hope you enjoyed today's content and as always, much love.