Out of your comfort zone
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- Created on Sunday, 04 March 2018 23:26
- Written by italy
Diego Zanutti 5L - IIS Rolando da Piazzola, Italy
To me, travelling and working abroad has no negative aspects. First of all it helps you maintaining a positive mindset. Work experiences in another country can play a big role to help you accept both positive and negative events. Going away from your bubble for a while will enhance your adaptability for sure. Actually, this sense of adaptability that makes us learn things as fast as we can, is probably what makes us humans. Being open minded, taking it as an adventure, just thinking about making new experiences and learning new things, no matter if it is not what you would have expected to do and if it is not your cup of tea, having fun, are all parts of that process that leads you towards your own improvement. And this not only applies to experiences abroad, but it is a rule for every single aspect of your life. Once you adapt and find yourself in a different country or culture, you will have already learned lots of things. From the simplest, for example respecting times of that culture, living in a big city and working in a small shop or learning to eat food they like there, to others, less obvious, as, for example, to value things that are characteristics of your country, like food culture, included the moment of the meal as a family reunion, or the attachment to every member of the family, or even other aspects that in your country are not as important as they should be, such as the significance of the vote, and the difference that this opportunity plays in your life or hospitality to strangers. The list could not stop and go on for hours, but the point is this: it is fundamental to always choose to change your habits, not to stay still in your certainties, because the world out there is not made of certainties, in this world nothing is sure, and sooner or later it will come out to you. Choose not to remain sure of something, exit from your bubble, because, as Bertrand Russell once said, only the stupid are cocksure, the intelligent instead, are doubtful.