101 years later, a message released into the sea has been found in a bottle. Richard Platz launched the message to the Baltic in 1913 and last Monday has been returned to his great -grandchildren after a fisherman found him. The message in a bottle that has traveled more time through the seas has finally reached its destination, more than a century after it was thrown into the Baltic Sea.
The International Maritime Museum of Hamburg has confirmed that the bottle found in March by a fisherman is authentic and that an investigation has managed to find Richard Platz's great -granddaughter, who threw her into the sea with a message inside asking who would find her to find her He would send it to his house in Berlin. Upon receiving the message from his great -grandfather, Angela Erdmann, he was excited: "It was incredible, tears began to roll through my cheeks," he explained to the DPA agency. Until now, the message in an older known bottle had been at sea for 98 years.
Exciting. A few words written a century ago that, finally, they reach their destination. Your recipient can read them, although it was not yet born when they were written. This episode reminds us that it never hurts to say what we think or feel. Although it may seem sometimes that nobody listens to us, that we are lost walkers in the desert, or shipwrecked like that wandering bottle with message, there will always be someone to listen to us. There will always be some person who will help our words.
Anyway, we also have to think about the channel we choose to communicate. Today the bottles with message are not necessary: we have a phone, email, whatsapp, videoconferences ... Many times, for comfort or laziness or fear, we choose some of these paths to avoid personal contact. And that there is no technology that can replace it. For important things, there is nothing like looking in the eye to the other person and telling what you have to say. This will ensure that the message comes. And without waiting for a hundred years.
