We went to the Ghanaian restaurant last night, and we got talking about my seven-month stay-abroad life in Ghana, as I had returned back to USA in December 2023, exactly a decade ago. I made many friends then, some quite close, and am in good touch with a rare few. No local friends though and I don't consider it too much of a loss. Maybe I could have made more friends, dated around, but nah I was the person I was and that wouldn't have felt right. Regrets are few and far.
Would I go again? Only if somebody else paid for the trip. I don't know anybody there, my knowledge of language and culture is probably outdated and I would definitely not go for the nature. The food was just okay too. Except Jollof, which was incredible.
If I know everything I do now, I'd have done London, but counterfactual are hard. I might have been a lot more miserable in London. Friends might have been harder to come, the cultural adjustment trickier. For the person I was then Ghana was the perfect choice. Besides, London I will visit anyway, ghana probably never, a net win there for me.
Oh baby what a decade this has been.
And to think I was just as far away from 2004 then as I'm from 2013 -14 is even crazier.
But this is life.
You can choose to live, or let it pass by. It's totally our choice!
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