Is true, there are very good moments, very good friends, big parties to remember and beautiful places to visit. Wherever you go, it's something you always will have and also the pictures from all of them of course!
All of us have at least a friend who lives abroad who upload their pictures in Facebook..and when we see the pics, we always think...woow has to be really nice to live abroad, Rome, London, Paris.. always in parties, meeting new people, new places to visit...look this picture! wow I also want to live abroad...
-Recently a good friend told me: I went abroad to be happy, not to be like...."like now"
Go out from your country doing an internship, Leonardo, Erasmus, volunteer or just to find your life is worth it, no one disputes that, but nobody said it would be easy. There are many days when you live in a cloud, everything is beautiful, party, people, trips....and about that Facebook knows a lot.
But to accomplish this situation, first you must pass other rather poor days. Days when you would take the first plane back home, days when the most repeated question is: What the hell I am doing here? I was very well in home with my family and my people, days when you don´t have money even for a cup of coffee because you don´t find job or other days when just you are so sad and don´t know exactly why... just homesick.
I don´t want to cheat anyone, all of you know that I advise you to leave your own country for your sake, to meet new people, new cultures, open your eyes and your mind to new ways of life, meet people who can give you much more than you think, and learn how to live alone (obviously language problem is already inside everything). But this does not mean it will be an easy ride, super fun and a rose bubble.
The people who is thinking to go abroad to live a new experience, do not take facebook as example, do not see friend / acquaintance´s pictures and think this is the live that you are going to have. Think that you will have good and bad days, better and even worse days.
It's a pity because we don´t have pictures about the bad moments and bad days, it's a pity to don't have a portrait about these days...when you would take a plane and you will return to your home for good, or these days when someone speaks to you and you cannot understand anything or just these days when you go to have a beer with a friend, not because you feel like drink, just because you need someone to talk with, and to not be alone in your home thinking and thinking about your day...
Too bad when Facebook only shows the good things about the travels (sometimes excessive). It's a pity not to publish these pics when you are sad o having a bad day to advice all the people who wants to go abroad thinking that they are going to find job on the second day and they are going to have party and more party every day.
Facebook does a lot of damage
Dedicated to all those people who feel identified, and those friends who always (always!) make me reduce these days to very few.
Loves you,
The bald of Belfast.
