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diff --git a/infra/website/content/blog/113_another_decade.md b/infra/website/content/blog/113_another_decade.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..83c2992bd068 --- /dev/null +++ b/infra/website/content/blog/113_another_decade.md @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +Title: Another decade down the drain +Category: Blog +Tags: /dev/diary +Date: 2020-01-01 + +Now that the last decade is officially over, there's some things I +want to write about. I do this less so for others, and more for +myself. Around this time of year, people usually make new year's +resolutions, which is not quite what this is. Instead, I want to +reflect on what the last ten years have meant for me, and some plans I +have for the next decade. + +I graduated school in 2011, started uni twice, dropped out twice (for +consistency), and found computer science and programming as my +passion. I moved to Berlin, worked many jobs, at a bunch of different +companies and finally, towards the end of this year, made myself +independent as a freelancer. + +Why am I mentioning any of this? Well, I don't think it's really +possible to plan for the future, so I won't try. Instead, I want to +set myself a goal for the next ten years. Something that has nothing +to do with my career, or even a hobby that I hold right now. But let +me back up a bit… + +Over 15 years ago (oof) I did an exchange program, which had me living +in France for six months. During this time I became pretty fluent in +French. Over time, unfortunately I forgot a lot of it again. Then, +over the last few years I started learning a few other languages, +apart from English and German (I consider myself bilingual). I am +conversational in French and Esperanto, and can understand a few words +of Russian. + +So what's my goal for 2030? Easy: I want to learn ten languages well. +This includes becoming fluent in the languages I already know +partially (French, Esperanto, Russian), as well as learning a few new +languages entirly. Some that I am interested in are Arabic, Catalan, +Spanish, Scottish Gaelic and Kurdish. I don't know if it will be this +exact set that I will end up learning, but it's a good starting point. + +Most importantly, I think that a decade is enough time to undertake +this venture. I don't know where I will be in ten years, or what I'll +be doing and neither do I think that it's ever really possible for me +to guess. But whatever my life looks lke, I hope that I'll be +speaking a lot more languages. |