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It’s Not Just Being Abroad That Changes You, it’s What You Face
You don’t find yourself, you challenge yourself
It’s easy being in your home country. You get it.
You know the system. You know how to get help. You know where the hospital is. You know how the postal system works. And, if pushed, you know where you can get a can of WD-40.
Life ‘at home’ is pretty easy.
Of course it comes with the inevitable challenges of being a human in your society and those challenges help shape who you are and teach you how to deal with Life.
But they don’t do so in the mad, intense, fly by the seat of your pants kinda way that travel does.
I’m going to find myself
I’ve always disliked this phrase for several reasons.
Firstly, look in a mirror. Boom, there you are.
Secondly, you are an ever-evolving person whose mood, habits and strengths change in short amounts of time.
Thirdly, going to an impoverished nation to take pictures of yourself drinking from a coconut is not…
