As I now live in the Netherlands it is no surprise that I have to learn their language. It is not only because because I need the skill for a job, I also want to learn how to speak and write, read and understand it.
However it takes time. A lot of time. This can sometimes be stressful and if you are like me and tend to go down the worryslide quite easily, you will understand me on a deeper level when I say that I have been feeling embarrassed because I haven’t learned more Dutch yet.
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Wait, wait. Why do I need to be embarrassed about this?
I should be learning much faster than I am! I have lived here for almost three months now and I don’t have a job yet because I don’t know enough of the language!
Okey, okey… First of all, Moa: Caaaaaalm. Down.
From what I have understood from looking back at myself and how I learn new things, I am a person who like to learn by slow – steady – repetitive and clear tasks. However if given very clear instructions I can learn fast.. Stressing myself up makes it harder for me to take in new information. Learning is easier when it is made fun and creative.
Everyone is different when it comes to how fast we learn new things. I have been told of people who learned anew language in less than three months, to a week, to even longer and there are people who doesn’t even learn the language of their new country. So I am not perse “bad” or an embarrassment for not having mastered the Dutch language yet. I am doing fine – I could of course do more but I am doing just fine.
There are probably more reasons to why I don’t have a job yet. If we would look at it from the perspective of the LOA (law of attraction), I have been pushing the jobs away by stressing myself up about not having a job and believing that I don’t have a job because I don’t know enough Dutch.
But then there is also this Corona/Covid-19 shit which has made it more difficult for many people to get a new job or keep the job they have.
Last but not least, I can be picky sometimes buuut at the same time I love to work and to be productive, helping out comes quite naturally to me. There iss also the fact that I don’t have a car or a driver’s license yet, but with my bike I can still get myself to places.
Source: https://dutchreview.com/expat/learn-dutch/learn-dutch-fast-easy/
These days I keep telling myself that I learn fast and easy when given clear instructions with a bit of cheering from others, but have I been cheering on myself? If I only push myself to continue without making a daily or weekly planning, if there’s only do do do… And no cheer from my own self… Then it really isn’t that strange that I stress myself out.
I ought to give myself a break. My family always tells me how far I have come, how proud they are of me and how brave I am for having moved here. Why can’t I see those things in me? Or – do I refuse to see that in me?
I don’t like to admit it but I feel a bit lost sometimes. At the same time I’m bound to a rollercoasterride which I want to get out of but because I’m so scared of falling out I cling to the seat with all my might and power.
– This is usally where I would say, “Moa, your imaginary bpd is taking over,
it is time for you to calm yur titties down and breeeaaaaathee! –
Yesterday I had a brilliantly good day. I was in tune with myself and my body, balance was my focus and mother nature my cheerleader. I thought “wow, from now on things will start to get really easy for me. I’m really in the flow of things!” and similar thoughts. However TODAY I feel like a complete dead fish. I’m not unhappy but I am not happy either. *IS THIS WHAT NEUTRALITY FEELS LIKE?!* (Sorry for the sudden caps, but how else would I show off that big thought, huh?) . . . This does not have to be a bad thing. If this is a neutral mood, doesn’t that mean that I can choose exactly where to go from here? *”I’ve got the power” starts playing somewhere in the background.*
Like I said yesterday in my post about the 12 Universal Laws, (which you can read here) I find it fascinating how things come and go into my life at the absolute right time when I am completely ready to recieve and let go of it. And just like I did then during conversations I had about how I was feeling and thinking, which was to re-realise how utterly stupid and silly it is of me to beat myself up internally for “not learning fast enough” and for “not having a job yet”, I have now during my time of writing (which has taken me two days, yes t w o d a y s) re-re-realised the same thing. But in a slightly different way. How much different I cannot say but internally it makes a huge difference to me.
AND JUST LIKE THAT
I can step off from the rollercoaster of being lost in the translation, the transition and look at the stress that I had created because of this, perhaps even see that I learned something from it. What that is, I do not know. Haha yes I am kidding, I know what it is.
I have learned that I am a sensitive Moa who looks to myself to support and guidance because, believe it or not, I think I am smart and brilliant, wise and kind. I know my shit and I know what works for me, how to take care of me. Though I am sensitive I am strong, fierce and yes I am even brave. I don’t think I am brave for moving to another country, but I think I am brave for contiuing and allowing myself to start over when things get hard and difficult. I am brave because I challenge myself by looking for jobs when I don’t speak that much Dutch yet.
But,
sometimes I get snowed in on only doing the work without giving back the proper care I need.
Sometimes I forget to look at things from a different perspective and be a bit more objective about situations I am in. As an enegry healer you would think I would remember something like that allllll the time, right? But it doesn’t work like that. I’m just a normal human being like the rest of y’all.
I have also learnt, or re-learned that our thoughts and how we feel about them affects us a lot.
With this I mean that, it does not help that much to think to yourself over and over about what stresses you. For example I had been thinking about the language and jobs and how bad I was feeling for not having it done yet more than I talked about it with people. It was almost constantly on my mind though, which then would affect how I was in my body which then later would start affecting how I was being with others. In the end, no complainging would be benefitial for me. What would help is if I would turn the page around and look at it differently, ask myself what’s really going on here Moa, are you in the right headspace and where can we go from here?
In the end, the only person who can help you if yourself. I can only fix my own life by myself. How do I do that? Simple, just like how I stepped off that imaginary rollercoaster a few moments ago: byt realising my thinking and being able to choose different, more benefital thought. (Oh man, how the teachers at KADA would look at me now and say “This is what we have been trying to teach you all along” hahaha…. *erhmhm* Moving along.)
This has been a very good writing session for me even though this journalpost took two days. First half is from 7/10 and the part below the Joey picture is from today the 8/10. I think it is fun to see how my thinking has changed since I started writing and it is nice that I have realised many things, become more aware of myself, and I actually don’t feel as bad anymore. Not sure how long this neutral feeling will last but now instead of being insecure about myself and how I feel, I enjoy this mood since I now know what to do with it.
I hope you have enjoyed this peek into my mind and please don’t give me any weird comments or remarks even though you really are welcome to speak your mind with me, if you would want to. Makes sense, no? Yes. XD