Copenhagen in 5

My Photo scholarship 2010 entry

Denmark | Sunday, October 17, 2010 | 5 photos

A typical autumn day. 55º latitude north, 12º longitude east. Every second the world sends over 76m tons of CO2 into our atmosphere, people leave their traces by destroying the legacy of our descendents and I think fatalistically in our destiny. I question myself if there is somewhere a solution to escape from this imminent condemnation, just to conclude that there is nothing to do, as society does not understand reasons.

Just before entering a depression, I cross a bridge and notice sailships leaving with destination to the Baltic Sea; they remind me when I used to play with paper ships, how I liked to think I was on them crossing the infinite sea. Childhood memories bring up my mood; I get out of my abstraction when the smell of grilled beef and the voices in the museum's cafeteria capture my attention: parents chat while kids play joyfully; how beautiful is that age when we are not conscient of the problems. Happiness comes with ignorance...

I get distracted and start wandering over the bicycle's lane, the incessant noise of a bell startles me: a girl explains I am trespassing her domains. I shamefully apologize for my mistake and so I decide to place me as far as possible from the roads and lie down on the park; my abstraction due to my streams of thought is going to end up causing an accident. I decide to relax by observing people who are spending the day in the park. Suddenly I feel jealous of a group of girls laughing; me in this depression while them totally unpreoccupied by the world's issues, so immature of them! I think.

I can not come up with a solution for the problems we are involved in; I just hope the answer could be in front of me someday. Suddenly blurriness disappears, my thoughts get organized, and I realize its simplicity: Copenhagen.