Life was simple back then before I came to UWC. We don't have to worry about soldiers fighting in Ukraine, children dying in Africa, rising sea level threatening the Pacific Islands, or some white dude taking US under control and influencing the world. We really don't. We just looked at them like dramas taking place somewhere far far away. Too far to take into concern. Life is good as long as I'm getting good grades. After I came to UWC, those faraway dramas become imminent people and stories. My world is constantly expanding in the sense that more and more of the world came into shape in my perception. I heard people talk about their stories and their participation in those events that I only read in news and watched on TV. Good grades was no longer enough to keep my life satisfied, as the more I knew the greater my responsibility became. I need to do something as it dawned on me that I am trapped in this global system of complicity. Being a bystander and doing nothing is guilty. I'm not quite sure how I personally changed before and after UWC, but what I am sure of is that my world changed and expanded. The imaginary circle separating me from the world is gone. Now I am in it, and it's my turn to fix it.