Just Keep Uploading

When Casey Neistat just started his YouTube channel there was a guy gave him one piece of advice that led to his 3 million subscriber number today(May 2016).

That three words are: Just keep uploading. here's the video of Casey's explaining the story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a2GpAq8q8g

Regret And Vision On The Path To The Future

Looking back in my life, there are plenty of things that I regret, let me list a few of them here:

When I went to Germany for one year’s exchange study I didn’t completely apply myself in study and socializing, not at all immersed in the culture, instead I was floating on the surface, and I was having so much fun floating there, believing that I was absorbing everything without effort. No, you can’t take the easy path to float around and enjoy your days, you gotta dive into the waves, maybe get choked by the water a little bit, get yourself exhausted by fighting for a way out, that’s fully immersed experience. That’s why tourists are forever only tourists, they don’t do the same work or live the same lives as locals, then they remain tourists. I ended up just a tourist in Germany, a one year long way too time-extensive tourist. That was one thing that I regret a lot. 

But things always have two sides, there are things happened in Germany that I don’t regret, such as started reading books in German and English, wrote a long narrative poem, got to know a few awesome friends. 

As Long As You Are On The Journey

Last night was another night that I stayed up late till half way to the dawn. I kept reckoning, there are so many things I needed to do, I wanted to do, from learning Italian, to find a job or internship, to read news and blogs, to write my own blogs and manage my website and pages, and I have a part time job at Busforfun.com that demands one hour a day from my time, sounds not much but you need to take the time to sit down and focus on a total different world since I'm doing marketing in Chinese for them. And at the beginning of the year I made the plan of reading 50 books, first 3 months I was right on track, for a few weeks I was even ahead of my schedule, but right now I'm five books behind schedule according to goodreads.com. Well there are always so many things to catch up, to chase after in life.