Life goes on, on, on, we rarely look back.
But as an exception, it may be allowed: What have been our sporting highlights of the past 40 years?
Boris Becker's first Wimbledon victory in 1985. Amazement at a young, totally cool Leimener who chased after every ball.
Franz Beckenbauer strolling around on the lawn in 1990 after winning the World Cup final in Rome.
One who had achieved everything that could be achieved in football.
The long summer afternoons in the late 1990s and early 2000s when Jan Ullrich unfolded his tremendous talent at the Tour de France.
Germany in cycling fever.
And yes, these three examples have more in common than one would wish.
The three main characters who made us believe with pounding hearts in the everlasting possibility of Sternstunden are now cracked, shadowed, almost broken in the public eye.
We ask ourselves to this day: What kind of law is it that stars have to fall out of the sky?
Icarus fell too.
But they all came close to the sun first.
And not the rest of us.
While we're about to look back: On July 8, it was exactly 40 years ago that former national soccer goalkeeper Harald "Toni" Schumacher hit Frenchman Patrick Battiston so hard in the face with his hip in a fateful World Cup semi-final that who lay unconscious.
Schumacher may be different today at 68, but the echoes of that brutal moment lingered for a long time.
The legendary Viennese André Müller conducted one of the most terrifying sportsman interviews ever with Schumacher.
It was published in Die Zeit in 1991.
The penalty killer gave a deep look into his motivation system: "Sometimes I hate myself."
And he also explained how: “I provoke the audience.
You don't only play against the enemy eleven.
You play against the spectators, against the referee, against the press.
I'm strongest when I'm surrounded by enemies.
When the shit hits me, I know I'll hold up well."
The question remains how many such cases could be found in top-class sport.
There is already too much hate in the world without her.