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In a land that calls a lucky guy “lucky fungi”

For about a year now things have been on and off!! But the take away has been a lot more than what can be packed into a years’ time!!

It began with getting married. The next one was coming to live in this country where hardly anyone spoke the language I did and neither could I speak theirs. So it’s easy to deduce that finding a job was a far cry. For a person fresh from having done her Masters, so eager to work (guess to my own regret later on..)  And finally make some money of her own, it was a big letdown.
It is in such confused times that one begins to think about dreams unfulfilled. So that’s how we hit upon the idea of learning German. Moreover that would be the logical step 1 to doing anything here. That was the start button. Once that was on, my life was full again. Meeting people from many different countries (like Slovenia, Slovakia don’t we leave them with our Geography lessons??) and learning their Culture brought a massive change to my outlook.  It does feel great to say I have French, Chinese, English, Russian, Slovenian friends!
Before, I was running through my life, panicking that I am getting nowhere with finding a job, always worried about being termed “she had it in her but didn’t make use of it”. But right now I realize that life is really not a marathon (I was far from being convinced. Not even when Chetan Bhagat explained why) and everyone has to find their own unique pace with which to live. And this has become my rationale.
Serendipity, an accidental discovery of something. Mine was that I’m good with languages. It helped me in more than one way. For one the meaning of many words in the languages that we already know becomes clearer. With all the traveling that we do, knowing the native language helps communicate better. Plus there is the high of being a small hero around friends and family ;-) The best so far has been that work came looking for me- Giving English lessons.
So am I a “lucky fungi”? (“Glück pilz“ in German)
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