Hi Maria! Nice to meet you. The grammar is incorrect when you say "and now you leave me alone". Instead, you should say "and now you've left me (all) alone" or "and now you've gone away". In other words, you need to use present perfect rather than present simple. Also, maybe instead of "I once fell in love", you could say "We were once (so) in love" or "I was so in love with you" or "I once fell in love with you". Hope this helps you, Maria, and I would love to hear one of your songs! Best wishes, Sean

12/16 My Thoughts

Since I moved to the (States)states, there are several things I’d like to think about a bit (more) deeply. I started to think about the sexual identity.

Even if there’s been progress in Korea as far as (the) gay community goes, I think we’ve got a long way to go compared to the western culture.
The long(er) I live here, the more I realize how (the)various point(s) of view people have here and those views are something (are about things) I’ve never thought about before.

My several questions and thought(s) that I asked myself and have are below : (Here are several of my questions and thoughts:)

Let’s say you’re straight and open-minded with (about the) LGBTQ community. But have you ever doubted yourself or thought to yourself that you could actually like the same gender as opposed to what you think(ing) that you would like the opposite gender? Have you ever tried to figure out your (own) sexual identity? Because in the past, people never got to imagine that they could like the same gender(, or that there could even be the option to fall in love with someone of the same gender)there’s an option that they actually can fall in love with not only the opposite gender but the same gender.

Until (not long ago) quite a while ago, the society used to be closed(,) and many people were so afraid of coming out of the closet, because they didn’t think there (was)is an available option where you (could) can actually like someone, (regardless of their gender) no matter (of) what gender, is and they  (Such closeted people) were scared of being judged and isolated.

Now that the society is more open, and more and more (a larger number of people are coming out) come out , which I think is a really brave thing to do, should we kind of just give it a try liking the same gender to see if we belong to LGBTQ community?

If you think you’re open-minded and (yet you)don’t even (entertain the idea of liking someone) try liking someone (of the same gender) regardless of their gender, don’t you (think it might make you sound ironic?)think it’s not going to make you sound ironic? Because not giving it a try can (could) make you (appear to be) closed-minded.

Regardless of what I said above, I (have come) came to the conclusion that even if you’re open-minded, and because of the society where you wouldn’t even imagine that you could fall in love with the same gender, you don’t have to try liking the same gender if you feel uncomfortable with that. Even if you don’t try, no one has (the) a right to judge you, and no one can forcefully change who you are.

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