In third grade I wanted to have friends at school, because I saw all this "groups" together and I somehow wanted be part of it. In my class was a group of three girls from Greece and somehow I wanted to be friends with them. Though they could speak my native language perfectly, because they were born in Germany, I assumed that to become friends I would have to learn Greek. As there were no Cd-language-courses in the late 80th I was searching and found an encyclopedia with Latinisms and words with a Greek word stem. So I got obsessed about learning these words in order to be able to talk Greek, because I was hoping that would make me their friend. But I got so obsessed, that I forgot about becoming friends with them.
But I learned a lot of foreign words in Latin and Greek, the Greek ABC, by that got interested in old German scripture and developed an "own scripture" combining both.
But: I failed in my mission of making friends.
What were you trying as a child to make friends and did you succeed?
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