I broke my leg 2009 and while in hospital I decided I have to go for my dream, quit my job as a communication trainer and coach to become a writer and videoartist. And here I am today, making my living as a writer, just because I was too stupid to stay on a bike and crashed my leg.

I learned that sometimes lifes stress can suck you in like a bitch that you forget about your dreams (like my dream, to become I a writer). And sometimes it needs a real rough break (in my case: of all the freakin`bones in my left foot and lower leg) to stop you from the everyday madness and allow time to pose the question: where am I and how can I get out of here, please? Without that "forced" time in bed with endless days and nights in the hospital, where the lights were kept switched on all night, I maybe would still be in the same situation today as I was 2009.

I am from germany and while most people here have bread or cereals for breakfast, I am more the kind of scrambled eggs and bacon kind of girl. I have coffee with milk AND green tea with it, so I guess I am a weirdo.

My hubby prefers oatmeal with milk and sweets for breakfast and nibbles on my scrambled-egg-bacon, too, because it smells yummy.

But all the rest of the family is going for bread with cheese, salami and stuff, with coffee on the side.

Hi Sameh,

der Unterschied zwischen "dem" und "einem" ist entscheidend. "Dem" bedeutet, einem ganz bestimmten Koch,  "einem" bedeutet, im Grunde irgendeinem Koch.

Der wesentliche Unterschied in der Wirkung der Formulierungen liegt in der Eindeutigkeit. Die Geschichte klingt so überzeugender, als ob der Erzähler sie beobachtet hat und sie tatsächlich passiert ist. Die zweite Formulierung klingt einfach nach etwas, was passieren könnte.

Viele Grüße,
Bella