Ergy ThÓughts

One of the interesting things about blogging: there is no commitment that comes with it. Sukak-sukak (When you are in the mood) you post in the blog; when you beh song (not in the mood) you just leave it at the corner, secluded.

In spite of no commitment involved, my conscience has urged me to chuck some thoughts in here just to keep others (or myself?) informed of what’s going on.

Time has gone past just like that. There ends my one year of study abroad life in Perth, Australia. It’s time to go back to UK to finish off my final year of honours degree. Not really looking forward somehow lol. It is Australia where I learnt the most out of everything. For the first year of UK life as well as the subsequent half year of Aussie life, I had been sort of struggling to cope with some forms of cultural shock. I guess it is something every international student has to go through, even though the period of time one experiences it might differ a lot. Some find it simply a piece of cake while others fail to adapt for years.

Living overseas does not mean that you will change or improve in adaptation to the new place. There is always some way that one can live through his or her life without altering own self. It might not be pleasurable but unshakable habits have always been such a comfortable reasoning or excuse for people to remain unchanged, even for the sake of betterment.

I’m glad that I’ve put in efforts to adapt and improve myself to cope with overseas life. It paid off in the long run. I’ve gained more confidence academically and socially as well as opened myself to different cultures. It’s relatively easy to acknowledge cultural varsities between races but when we have to live and deal with it, that’s when problems kick in. Matters that we think are totally reasonable might be devastatingly unacceptable to those of different backgrounds. You just have to figure out what the heck they’re thinking and their principles behind that back them up “as if they are right”.

There is still a lot for me to learn. Hopefully the damn cultural shock wont come back to me when i get back to sheffield this time. It seems trivial but it definitely affects your life adversely if you refuse to face and learn how to adjust yourself accordingly. Adapting to a new life, a strange community and exotic cultures does not mean losing your own identity or abandoning who you originally are. Instead, it’s about turning into a 150% person who has gained more life experience in the quest of finding out who you truly are, the life you want to live and becoming who you want to be.

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