A discussable topic in language course

We were asked to give a talk in the German course on whatever life-related topic.

It took me two hours to come up with whatever might be interesting for the others, but I could not think of anything other than the viruses, or the American election — — virus is the daily headline in my office, and American election the daily headline of the international news in Tagesschau.

I am sure the world I am living now is not only these.

So I clicked on the Taiwanese news websites, and it suddenly eased my anxiety of being isolated —based in where I am the geometric world is divided into Switzerland, and the rest of the world.

I thought about paintings, learning languages, doing sports, health insurance, driving speed limit, visa, racial discrimination, books, movies, music, architecture, volunteer working……. And those who I think brings the great joy to me deeply — what are they doing.

Now I am worried about a friend, who is in his first year as resident doctor. For a PhD student and a shift-work- doctor our time frames seem to compensate perfectly with our time-zone difference.

So what I want to talk about is the emptiness and the fear of being emptiness— I guess this is the daily topic we are dealing with, how meaningful is the work we are doing, and are we able to change it? Ever since I started working, I realized that I tended to drink, smoke. Because I could not see where the work led me to.

That led me to start working in Kunstmuseum as a volunteering consultant, learning German, work out, attending movie festivals, and studying something each day.

Although he might feel his life empty, I already felt there is something interesting in his life — to listen to the patients and tell me how it really is working in a hospital.