" there are times when you look up and realize that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore. You thought you were following the arc of the story, but you keep finding yourself immersed in passages you don’t understand. Either everything seems important or nothing does. It’s a tangled mess of moments that don’t even seem to belong in the same genre, that keeping changing depending on what you choose to highlight.
What kind of story is this? Just another coming-of-age tale, the same one your parents told, with the names switched around? Is your everyday life part of the origin story of something truly epic? Are you unwittingly getting by on other people’s charity, mistaking your own luck for your own success? Are you a character in a romance, a tragedy, a travelogue, or just another cautionary tale?
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Working with Translation is progressively getting harder! But I'm enjoying the challenge!
My government is even willing to try to incorporate foreign language as a potential source of international fraternization (I.e Making Non-English speaking friends) and I'm jumping onto the band wagon (as the Americans say)!
And I must say, after adding Korean to my (gradually increasing) repertoire of languages(which is always a work in progress), I find learning things far easier and faster than when I just knew Portuguese and English
Conquering Spanish, Increasing my responsivity in Japanese and now bolstering my fairly new Korean vocabulary...
I'm gonna make these old crones of my stuck in the past government shudder with awe ar the fact that a "loud & obnoxious" islander can speak several languages and hopefully foster better relations, however small, for my island.
Insertnamehere Wrote:Are you freaking out right now? I know you are :biggrin:
But I share the "itch" that leads you to look and learn of these topics
It's a research project for work, I've been doing it chronologically and I haven't gotten to the really scary ones yet like the Spanish flu. But it's been interesting. In a morbid curiousity way and to really learn about how disease shaped the city, which is the ultimate reason I'm doing it.