Jonas helps at the community garden before the weekend market

On Friday evening, Jonas was helping in the community garden, as he did almost every week, because a small market stall for the neighborhood was supposed to be prepared the next morning.

He had actually thought that the work would go quickly this time, but after the first few minutes he noticed that two garden beds had not yet been harvested at all and several crates were missing.

While a neighbor sorted the tomatoes, Jonas looked in the shed for clean materials and at the same time tried to find out which herbs needed to be cut first.

Meanwhile more helpers arrived, but instead of making everything easier right away, each new person initially brought new questions as well: who would handle the table, who would write the signs, and who would count the money later?

Jonas noticed that it was not the physical work that made him nervous, but the feeling of having to carry responsibility for several things at once without being able to control everything completely.

When in the end all the crates were filled after all and the last signs lay drying on the table, he understood that the project worked precisely because no one had to oversee everything alone.