It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you dont trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit. – W. G. Sebald
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. – Thomas Jefferson