Self-realization

My philosophy too that topic is a bit different. I agree with the most parts. It is important to realize your own goals and be independent and autonomous but I also think that the family is one fundamental institution in our life. But when the parents cling too much on their children it is really bad for their development. Everyone should learn from your own mistakes and the parents can’t protect the children for every thing and all the time. It is a challenge for all human to grow up and find the right way.

In Austria it is very unequal, some children “leave the nest” when they are 14 and some when they get married but I think it is harder for our parents to let us go. It depends on their education and on every family (how much they are connected). It is also common that two generations life in one house.

I was 14 when I left my home, because my High School was in another city and lived in a dorm there. But I was - and I’m also connected with my home.

Do you think wealth and possessions make a person important? If not, what does?

I think that money takes up too large space in today's life. Those who can afford everything, is no longer satisfied. There is no delight, even with little satisfaction. Nothing you can buy for money, at least nothing major.

Of cause it depends on every person and how the person handles it. Wealth and possessions makes the life easier and open sure some door, but it never makes you really happy. It is easy to buy something but some things nobody can buy. I mean things like loyalty, friendship or real feelings for someone without second thoughts are priceless.

I know it is for everyone appeasing to know I have enough money to live my live that I want to live. However nobody should overrate the power of money, but on the other side is nothing for free.

If Americans had to pick one aspect of their country that they are most proud of, over 90 percent would choose freedom. What aspect of your country are people most proud of? How does that quality affect life there?

According to a study of the “Statistic Austria” from the year 2005, was the result that we Austrians are primarily proud of our multifarious landscape. Then come our neutrality, our athletes, our artists/musicians (Austria has been the birthplace of W. A. Mozart, J. Haydn, F. Schubert, A. Bruckner, J. Strauss and many more). We are also proud of our cuisine, which grew up under the influence of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. And we are also peacock about the renunciation of the nuclear power.
But this consciousness change from time to time. The view of the Austrians on their land is uneven and uncertain. It depends on our ambivalent past. Sometimes the glass is half empty and sometimes it is half full again

I’m proud of my country in the time after World War II, nobody believed that Austria could exist and my grandparents and parents changed it to a very good place for my generation. I’m also proud of our beautiful landscape. We have everything, from the high mountains, awesome rivers about marvellous lakes and also cultural hot spots in the cities.
It shows me every time when I see it, that this is a wonderful place, not without mistakes, but I’m very glad to born and raised in Austria. - There is no better place to live - (for me)