there was this very sweet old french man at work today who just made things just feel a little bit better. he was waiting to speak to my manager but i decided to ask him if he needed help, he responded in french and when he saw i understood he started talking to me about learning languages. i think one of the first things he said was "you should learn french, italian, spanish... just for fun not because it will help you get a job!" and i think my heart just swelled after he said that. that's exactly why i wanted to go to france after stockholm, just for the experience of learning a new language. its so rare here that you get that sort of attitude, french is literally forced onto everyone who already has a job with the government and then its forced onto those who don't just so they can get a job and as a result you don't really get much positivity towards it. you try to talk to people in french and they just switch into english because you have an accent or your vocabulary isnt perfect. it was just really nice to talk to someone who was so enthusiastic about you learning his language.
i think ive been having a bit of trouble living that sort of attitude lately - not just with languages, outside circumstances start to bog you down and you forget. you just need someone with the same heart to say something like that more often and shock you back into the way you'd like to be living.
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