Travel and Life in Europe

是時候給自己一個交代。

轉眼間自己已經24歲，考預官，申請研發替代役。進入碩士班5個月的最後衝刺，只需要再加把勁，整理數據，寫出一篇論文，通過口試。我將獲得一個不錯的文憑，看起來也有一個算是光明的未來。然而在人生的十字路口，我轉了一個彎，選擇一條和其他人不一樣的道路。沒人能告訴我這條路該怎麼走，我需要憑著自己的力量去剷除前方的荊棘，翻山越嶺抵達目的地。沈澱自己，認真思考「我到底想要什麼人生」。

背起行囊，離開緯度23.1°N的南島，經過漫長的19小時飛行與2次轉機，踏上57°4N的北國—瑞典。6小時的時差，晚上11點於地平面消失的太陽，1年的新生活。

位於斯堪地那維亞半島的瑞典，國土面積為450,295平方公里，為歐盟第三大國，總人口940萬人。首都斯德哥爾摩(Stockholm)，人口約130萬，為斯堪地那維亞第一大城。

高雄，香港，慕尼黑，哥德堡—這就是故事的開場白。

Robert Frost (1874–1963).  Mountain Interval.  1920

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.