tree123
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Would anyone please correct my writing as below?
I have a good American friend. A few years ago, he suddenly told me something which seemed to me that it was irrelevant to me every a while for at least three times. It was just a sentence. I thought it was not my position to comment on that. And I felt strange, and a little uncomfortable because it was unusual in China in the normal situation. Each time I let it go with the self ratification - it might be an American thing.
Somehow the question- why did he say that to me was hovering in my mind later now and then. At that time, we could talk about anything as much as we could. If I had asked, he probably would have told me, or he might have been expecting me to respond to, but I didn't. Now we don't talk to each other, except for a few emails exchanges occasionally. I thought I missed the best opportunity to ask him in person, though I could still try to get confirmed.
Recently I suddently figured that out. Those were like random dots which are logically consciously connected together.
I have to repress the impulse I wanted to write to him, "Hey, I was so retarded. Now I gotcha", but that might embarrrass both of us, if I suddenly mention that. I intended to find a tree hole like a psychological forum to vent it out anonymously, but I am too lazy to register one.
Imagined Cultural Gap
I have a good American friend. A few years ago, he suddenly told me something which seemed to me that it was irrelevant to me every a while for at least three times. It was just a sentence. I thought it was not my position to comment on that. And I felt strange, and a little uncomfortable because it was unusual in China in the normal situation. Each time I let it go with the self ratification - it might be an American thing.
Somehow the question- why did he say that to me was hovering in my mind later now and then. At that time, we could talk about anything as much as we could. If I had asked, he probably would have told me, or he might have been expecting me to respond to, but I didn't. Now we don't talk to each other, except for a few emails exchanges occasionally. I thought I missed the best opportunity to ask him in person, though I could still try to get confirmed.
Recently I suddently figured that out. Those were like random dots which are logically consciously connected together.
I have to repress the impulse I wanted to write to him, "Hey, I was so retarded. Now I gotcha", but that might embarrrass both of us, if I suddenly mention that. I intended to find a tree hole like a psychological forum to vent it out anonymously, but I am too lazy to register one.