Feel Better:Complain About Anything, page-27144

weird that thing about education. I honestly just took what I had for granted. It came very easy and there was such an assumption about going to uni. But I was probably too young when I started. I had barely turned 17 and a little naive and really had no idea why I was going - I certainly didn’t have any goals. So while it was fun I chose subjects to avoid having to study too hard. I was good at languages so Russian, French and English were obvious choices. By then I’d studied Russian for two years already. I did non western music for no reason at all, linguistics because it was interesting and psych - which I stopped after a couple of years because I thought the professors and many of the students seemed to be doing psych as much to understand themselves as anything else.

I think we all mostly fake it till we make it. So I get your thing about looking confident and this landing things you might not have done otherwise. A great skill it appears. I wonder what your life might have been like had you been born elsewhere or to different parents. But for sure educated parents guarantees nothing or the reverse. I can imagine the English having no idea where Vienna was. It’s a city I’ve never been to but of course in my head it’s music and magic and waltzing.

you are lucky to have found a good husband but sad that you “lost” him so young. It’s weird to say “lost” isn’t it. It’s not as though you misplaced him.