Two Years In

Surprise: I’m not actually a Berlin native. Weird, right. I know some people are having a complete meltdown about this, and others have already unfollowed. I get it.

Two years here and nothing much has changed really. Work, school, the blog, sleeping, eating, being around people at night. Nothing that sounds like anything when you say it out loud. Nothing that makes you feel like you’ve actually done something with the time.

I didn’t save the world or find myself or become the person I was supposed to become. Just showed up mostly and did the regular things. Got okay at work, went to classes, watched people, thought about stuff worth writing.

But looking back mostly means looking forward. Final year of my apprenticeship, another round of vocational school with Gulcan and Thomi and people I actually like being around. There’s Japanese I’ve been meaning to learn. Nora and I are getting married, which should be its own kind of disaster. Maybe even MTV Cribs if the universe is feeling generous.

None of it’s glamorous or special. It probably won’t matter to anyone but the people in it. But that feels like the whole idea anyway.