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+Title: Another decade down the drain
+Category: Blog
+Tags: /dev/diary
+Date: 2019-12-31
+
+Today, on the last day of this decade, 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.