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.
