Frederick Harbecke:
CLASS OF 1988
Elgin High SchoolClass of 1988
Elgin, IL
Columbia CollegeClass of 1997
Chicago, IL
Frederick's Story
Life
What's good: I'm married to a dazzling, brilliant Russian, lived in Europe (too briefly), Asia and Brazil for a few years, and we've been in the States since - what, '05, I think.
What's cool: For the past few years, I've been working on a project which has threatened to turn into a book. This now seems inevitable. I've received too much support from too many brilliant people to turn back.
I may be going back to school at University of Chicago, but first comes the GRE. Have decided psycholinguistics is too specialized and not humanitarian enough. Current studies are in psychology, philosophy, sociology: vesatile, soft-science stuff. The main gist of it is meaningful communication. Facts are cold things; human beings live somewhere in between "truth" and needs. (I think it's why people are getting so adamant about religiosity, yet not religion, again: kind of a "what about me?" attitude. After all, tribalism is about being heard again.)
What's new: I've taken a break...Expand for more
from language classes to focus on writing. To date, I've studied French, Latin, German, Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian and Arabic. Not yet fluent, but I can now be misunderstood in 9 languages. Luckily, I can say "thank you" in at least 50. And all because someone once told me it wasn't possible! That's why I like flexibility.
What's deep: It's an odd thing about distance, whether in time or space: even the things you detest take on a glow. It's usually mistaken for nostalgia, but that's really just a return for the sake of return. What I'm talking about is meaning: "that was me then, I felt that." Maybe you loved or hated that moment, or maybe you can't even decide what you feel about it, but it's red-hot and unforgetable.
When you begin to plot those points, you begin to notice patterns; the patterns add up to predictions, the predictions become maps. Maps of meaning. You see your relation to people around you, and who you are is reflected as well.
See? Deep!
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