I’m going to cook spaghetti. Okay that’s easy. I should just go to the shop, buy meat, onion, tomato paste, and spaghetti. Then return home and cook just like I did back in home. I go to the shop, I can’t find tomate paste, after some time I finally find something that I guess is tomato paste. I’m going to buy meat. I encounter a lot of different meat packs. Which of them should I buy? The words are written in German. Okay I’ll use Google Lenz to understand them. Oh there’s no signal for mobile data down in here. Oh the shop has a WiFi network. I connect to it to use Google Lenz. But I can’t access internet even after connecting to the WiFi netowrk. Finally I buy what I need and come out of the shop, hoping I’ve bought the right things. Go home and start cooking. Shit it’s really hard to cut the onions with this small knife. Oh how does this stove work? OK I think I figured out. Why are the onions sticking to my frying pan? I didn’t expect it to be like this! And finally I manage to cook something that is barely edible.
It’s interesting though. The most simple and regular tasks of life are composed of a lot of small tasks and after changing your environment, each of those small tasks may get hard, resulting in the whole task looking difficult. It’s like a recursive function, say Fibonacci function. If we increase f(1) just by 2 (i.e. change f(1) from 1 to 3), f(10) would be 165, 110 more than its original value.
Not that it’s bothering me. All of this is just a part of the process of settling in a new place. But it changed my way of looking at tasks and how the conditions of the environment can affect the quality of the people’s life.