We are in 2040, a March morning, just before my birthday. My son lives in our house with his wife and their son Maximilian. My husband and I are happy to have the kids near us. We are retired, well-secured, but in one situation or another glad to be able to fall back on the young. Our son now works nearby again and no longer has to commute to the neighboring country to find an adequate job and our daughter-in-law works for a lawyer in the law firm. Both follow the regular work and are happy to have found a good job.
Our grandson goes to secondary schools. He is a very talented boy without having to learn much. Just a little lazy in the homework. Otherwise, there is still a foreign family living in our house, who, since they share our garden, also helps with gardening. The contact is familiar and you help yourself wherever you can.
Our friends come to visit or we visit them, whatever a joyous event, almost degenerates into a festival for which all the inhabitants of the house come together.
Our country lives in peace and the roads have become safer again. Traffic is very well connected through the expansion of the road network and the expansion of bus and train lines and we can travel in all directions both by car and by bus and train.
Our country has its national pride back again, as is common in other countries, and we live in peace, with a healthy economy and a very good social democratic government at the top. The government's water head has been shrunk by half, the civil service abolished and taxes reduced. There is virtually no poverty in Germany and the minimum pension is paid without deductions. We have found each other again, may it remain so, that would be my wish.