Rant time!
i generally have no complaints about the psychiatrist i see here but this week she said one of the things that pisses me off and i'm still thinking about it. it's always the same, when i try to talk about how i still find it hard to live in Austria after two years it's always "no one is forcing you to be here". ???. sure no is holding a gun to my head, but do you honestly think that if i wasn't being forced in some way, i wouldn't be back home? seeing my parents enjoy retirement, the sea, living in the kind of weather i know and love, eating the food that i like, speaking my own language??? make no mistake Frau G, the only reason i'm here is because the british colonial government took one look at my country, declared it a, quote, "barren rock of a land", and made sure that all resources were diverted back into their own pockets instead of going towards development. i'm here because there s no opportunities for me back home. but i guess that s also on me for expecting anyone in northern europe to think of anyone from the south as anything other than whiny and combative.
