Introduction
This week we meet Michael, Texan barman, in our series “People of LCM”. He also spent big parts of his life in Alaska and Germany, just sold his bar in Visp, Switzerland, and is now ready for new projects in South America.
The interview
What do you love most about your job Michael?
I think it is mostly the part that when you create something, you serve it to the people and you see that they enjoy it. You know, that's the salary, actually. It's not the money. If you make that they enjoy what you do, the money comes by itself.
Can you share a moment in your life that involves champagne or wine that you really found memorable?
The only champagne moments that I really have is somewhere in the club with some bottles and some good people. Friends. That's people you spend a lot of years with. Positive people. You call them friends because they don't put you down. People that support you in life. It's many small moments during time that come together that turn people into your friends. You cannot say that by just one situation.
Is it a painful moment when the bar closes? What have you taken from this experience?
No, not really painful. It was an era of time that I experienced. I take my positive and my negative things with it and I just move on to the next project, you know? But yeah, you just change your values. You have those surface values. Beauty, prestige, stuff like that. When you have all those things, then you realize it's not that important. Then you go back to the important things, the basics. Love, kindness, friendship. You always get back to that at some point."
Conclusion
So, like Michael, let us come back to our basic values and appreciate the simple moments …
Times of still and peace ….
Bringing us joyful memories together.
That last forever.
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