Debates of the European Parliament Feel high on Hermannplatz. Who feels in the skies like under the influence of a drug in Hermannplatz? And why does the flipty live? Without identifying the sender of the message, the title has been enough to click the video. Hermannplatz, situated on the border of two neighbourhoods that gentrification has already crossed, in a corner with its Karstadt brand, the building of one of those department stores. The video reads “What if you were celebrated just for being you?”. Be praised for what you are, alone, without the need for more. “What if... “. What do you think? Can you imagine that?

When the traffic stopped and the traffic light turned green, the woman, sitting reading the newspaper, the kids playing with a ball -- they came out of the hideout of appearances and ran to the road. The two sides of the zebra are enough to fill it and those who walk through the road start clapping and vibrating. Like those who cheer on the Tour riders. The pedestrian reactions he receives with surprise are significant. There are athletes who, mimicking the winners, receive their arms and manage to enjoy the moment in an authentic way. Or those who, after making a gesture, turn their eyes down or head to the sky with a nervous laughter. There is a feeling of grandeur that plays with his hand by firing as the people of the world of film or kings would. He's covering his face of shame with his hand. The one who holds firm his trajectory until then, because all that doesn't go with him. I started thinking about how I would react. How I would like to react. To what extent we need these kinds of moments in our lives, and of course most of us don't. The video ends with the phrase “Everyone is a hero”, pointing to the heroism of each of us.

Then I read the quote that contextualizes this simple “flahmob”: “Our goal must be,” says a professor at the Weekly Der Spiegel, “making a successful life possible; and not complicating lives with bad notes, with bad humor.” In an article that polemizes education at school, taking the beginning of the course as an occasion, he says that boys and girls are too young at school, because teachers bring out their frustration with them. I was led by the protagonist of a children's book. One of the first days has come late to save fifteen worms on the way to school. The girl is proud, but the teacher rebukes her by the mistake and sends her home with a note for her parents to sign.

Among the classics of children's literature is a child who lives alone with his father. In the original it is called Alfons Aberg, but in each translated language it has a different name, and in Basque it is not. The night before it's your first day of class, when you can't sleep, your father tells you to calm down, you don't have to be afraid, the other kids are as nervous as him. On that first day, he goes home saying that the professor told them a secret: that he too has been unable to sleep. Teachers have done something that is not usually allowed to themselves: Show weakness. And by the way, it has made children laugh and won their trust.

The same as the one that creates an environment or another, lives it. There is nothing more to do with how well those who hail the zebra pass through are doing.