https://jochum.dev/en/tags/life/ Recent content in Life on jochum.dev https://jochum.dev/images/20260503-me.jpg https://jochum.dev/images/20260503-me.jpg Hugo en Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://jochum.dev/en/personal-development/20261101-heaven-can-wait/ Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0100 https://jochum.dev/en/personal-development/20261101-heaven-can-wait/ <blockquote> <p>If you like, listen while reading:</p> </blockquote> <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hfuW-dwCYb4?si=StwLFJlDS0RAHf74" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe> <hr> <p>There is this one song by the Böhse Onkelz that plays at many funerals: <em>&ldquo;Nur die Besten sterben jung&rdquo;</em> — &ldquo;Only the best die young.&rdquo; When you are standing at a grave and cannot comprehend why someone is gone far too soon, that sentence is a bandage for the soul. Yet for the living, for the boys of tomorrow, it does not serve as a compass. For the living, we need another song by the same band: <strong>&ldquo;Der Himmel kann warten&rdquo;</strong> — <strong>&ldquo;Heaven can wait.&rdquo;</strong></p>