Living abroad

Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially.

— Tom Freston

Our homes are not defined by geography or one particular location but by memories, events, people, and places that span the globe.

— Marilyn Gardner

You're never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

— C.S. Lewis

If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. Walk-in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food. It's a plus for everybody.

– Anthony Bourdain

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Many people had the experience of traveling abroad, spending some days on vacation, but did you ever really had the experience of staying for a long time away from home in another culture, country, language, where everything was different from what you know like usual?

There's a huge difference between "oh, hey, I will spend one or two weeks in England, or hey, I will spend one year in England. "This is two completely different life experiences. So for you that never had the experience of staying so much time away from home. I would recommend you pick a country and go live for one year. You will certainly grow and discovered life in a totally different way like nothing in your comfort zone would ever teach you.

For those's who live abroad and bravely search and discover yourself and the world around you, I would say you are giving yourself the craziest and beautiful experience life can give you, having an experience that will change you for a lifetime.

It is hard to talk about something we never experienced. I could never understand something that my friend once told me in college." live abroad is like a crazy feeling of happiness and miss of friends and family at the same time. Because you learn and discover so many different things, you get to know different places, and you learn a different language, but at the end of the day, you will not have that comfy food or that friend coming by to say "Hello". is a mix of crazy feeling, between the heart and mind of a human being who is experiencing a grown and new understanding of life. Learn another language and culture is like having another soul. It is a great experience. that I would recommend to everyone in life.

So if you never lived away, and when I say, live abroad, I mean at least six months, without seeing family and dear friends, just by yourself, being challenged and stretched by life in all of the ways, where you grow up as no one else could ever teach you in life. I would say go and give yourself this gift.

Being away from everything that you know, in a different place, culture, country, language, and everything in between, is the most challenging and good gift you can give yourself in life.

But if you are like, "ok, i'm fine, I do not need to go live abroad, Nah", Well, I would say, you will miss an experience of a lifetime in a life that you only live once. Because I believe nothing can prepare more a human being for the real world and self-knowledge than an experience that brings out empathy in a lesson of real life.

There's a lot of ways how you can live abroad, learn and study. You do not need to have a lot of money to travel and learn another language and culture, grow, to be brave enough to get out of your comfort zone.

Maybe you did travel two weeks, one month, but I would challenge you to go away for at least six months and discover a new culture, a new language, a new perspective, and let life straight you. For a better you, where you learn while growing up in an adventure of the unknown.

You will never be able to understand something that you never lived, and you will never grow and be able to talk about something you didn't experience in life.

Because it is easy to stay in the comfort zone of life, sitting on the sofa pretending to be the expert on everything you never lived. Go into life, and live.

"MAKING A BIG LIFE CHANGE IS PRETTY SCARY. BUT, KNOW WHAT'S EVEN SCARIER? REGRET."

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

— Terry Pratchett

And suddenly you just know… It's time to start something new and trust the magic of new beginnings.

— Meister Ekhart

And then there is the most dangerous risk of all–the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

– Randy Komisar

It's impossible said pride. It's risky said experience. It's pointless said reason. Give it a try whispered the heart. – Unknown

"LIFE MIGHT BE DIFFICULT FOR A WHILE, BUT I WOULD TOUGH IT OUT BECAUSE LIVING IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT EVERYONE SHOULD TRY AT LEAST ONCE. MY UNDERSTANDING WAS THAT IT COMPLETED A PERSON, SANDING DOWN THE ROUGH PROVINCIAL EDGES AND TRANSFORMING YOU INTO A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD."

"Good morning, good afternoon, good night. whatever time you're reading this, have a good day."

-LENNY ✨