Kummer aller Art

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"Everyone seems perfectly fine on the outside, but inside, it looks like a mess," thinks kiosk owner Armin as he unsuccessfully tries to meditate. And the other characters in these literary columns are also struggling internally: Mrs. Wiese can't sleep anymore, Mr. Pohl is persistently disheartened, Lisa is experiencing her first heartbreak, Vadim's hands are trembling, Mrs. Schwerter desperately needs to relax, a sad patient has lost his flock, and psychoanalyst Ulrich is grappling with the concept of impermanence. Various kinds of sorrow plague the people who navigate their daily lives, sometimes better, sometimes worse. But this sorrow also unites them, for instance, when they go for walks where problems may not be solved, but at least come to light and air.

With intelligence, humor, and a keen sense for nuances and absurdities, Mariana Leky portrays the life situations of people who may lack trust but certainly lack the courage to recognize that one cannot permanently evade life.

The texts collected in "Kummer aller Art" were first published as columns in Psychologie Heute.