It's interesting... Our lives overlap in someway.

Oh yeah...I can totally relate to your rustiness in German! It actually happened to me during the time I had just written my A2 exam and decided to take a whole 3 month hiatus! Then came the time for me to actually get back to studying for B1 and boom, dative and genetive cases became completely alien to me! Lol, I think the only sentence that really stuck with me afterwards was the gold ol classic : Das Auto Des Mannes ist Kaputt🤣

Learning German (or any language for that matter), requires constant assimilation and practice — WITHOUT BREAKS — UNTIL YOU SPEAK IT WITHOUT THINKING! But fear not, your German might be rusty now, but once you get back on the old horse, alles wird gut! Glaub mir😌

I agree with you, Hive really is a special place for special people. I believe a time will come when it would go mainstream and once it does, the world will never be the same again.

Hmm, I don't know much about Mahler either, apart from his famous Symphony No.5 of course, but this was a treat to listen to while reading your story!

I see... You've come a long way indeed and it's good to see that you're still discovering more about life and yourself. Life's a constant series of growth and evolvement afterall.

_{Hmm... maybe the pandemic wasn't that bad afterall. Apparently, it was an eye opener for some people actually (myself included).}

Cheers for now DeeAnn!