How coronavirus created a Kosovar
I’ve learned some important lessons in lockdown.
|2020.04.21
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But sometimes it’s not the big stones that trip you up on your path to feeling like you fit in.
The only times when such spontaneity caused trouble in my scheduling was when I had already broken the rule and previously organised something.
“So was that kismet or mukajet?” he asked pointedly.
Only in a time of pandemic do I feel that I have started really thinking like a Kosovar.
I realise that I am in the hands of something perverse and unknowable to which I may have to surrender.
Elizabeth Gowing
Elizabeth Gowing is the author of four books about Kosovo and the co-founder of Kosovan NGO, The Ideas Partnership. She divides her time between Kosovo and the UK where she gives lectures on Kosovan culture.
This story was originally written in English.