Living Abroad

I believe we became stronger and more flexible leaving abroad. In actually, you must be.


If you keep spoil and shelfish how you used to be close to your parents, nobody will want to be your friend and then you will be alone, making your dream trip in a hard time. What is the point in having a delightful dinner if you can't talk or laugh about silly things? Or travel around the country if can only have pictures of your face smashed in the frame?

Abroad, you kind of have to learn quickly that people are different and at some point there is no right or wrong. It is just difference. If people could understand that, maybe it would be less racism and hipocrits judges.

And also you must be stronger, well, in fact is not a "have to" because your strength will show off anyways trought the little thing and also facing the big dramas of day by day. At these times your friends will be crucial to you. It is hard. However, it is amazing see how strong you can be, the limits you can break and also the ones you will create to protect yourself. That is an increadible experience that everybody should try at once.

Besides that, you get more confident about yourself and you realise how easy is to ignore what people think about you (maybe thats is why there are so many weird people in Sydney - haircuts and boys' pants are peculiar). You basically learn how short and incredible life is to be spent in fake dramas and around people you don't like. Just be yourself, value your parents and what they have taught you. Stop arguing for fool things and complaining about everything. Make the changes.

And at the end, what really matter are the people you have met and things you have done. Well, at this point I have been doing a great job so far.

28 de janeiro de 2009