Monday No Rules...Life these days & Bloggers Block
In a vague alternate life I remember writing about 2012 and how it wasn’t such a great year for me (it really was the most stuck id ever felt), I also wrote about all the things I wanted to achieve in 2013 and life changes I wanted to make. So far this year, I’ve done so many amazing things and reached some personal goals too. Let’s consider this my 10 months review as I fill you in and reflect on my year thus far.
Anything is possible. If It’s not part of the plan its ok but I believe one should ‘never say never’.
Backdrop
September 2013- Present (Oct 21, 2013)
A month and a half ago , I moved from Abu Dhabi to Birmingham, knowing almost nothing about the city other than what I'd learned from reading google and touristic reviews. I moved away from home and i am constantly asked how life had changed, what was different, what stayed the same. What am i missing, what am i learning, and most importantly how am i adapting (in other words SURVIVING).
When I stepped off the plane in Birmingham, my only emotions were excitement and a need to eat. After the pleasant discovery that Birmingham had indoor plumbing (they're just like us!), I unpacked my bags, updated my current city on Facebook, and went out to experience everything. What a beautiful country, with such- I'm sorry, I must have misheard you, I thought you said this can of Coke was 2.50 pounds. What, I have to go pay at the front, even though this is a goddamn restaurant ?? OK, which one of the buttons on my new UK-issued cellphone tells you and this whole place to disappear forever? One of the bottom ones?
So like the sun comes out here, never? For reals? ...it's windy too? why?
Oh so carrying an umbrella is kind of pointless? oh right gotcha.
Despite everything, I am having the time of my life !! I am braving the horrid weather most times, I am also occasionally going into a Mad frenzied fashion shopping hysteria. It's fun, it's fabulous, and I just cant get enough.
I have also met and befriended some awesome people who i now am happy to call my FRIENDS. people from all over the world going through everything i am. The highs , the lows, the funny moments, the ironic moments (When i get turned away more than 3 times from gym induction for various hillarious and frustating reasons).
When I made my decision of moving countries, I was searching for an exciting and personally challenging experience. When the idea of moving to a different county became a possibility, all I kept thinking was the following: if at the end of my life I could say, "In my mid twenties, I moved to different country, learned to make do on my own, to shake myself out of the habit of having everything done for me and still managed to achieve my personal goals", then I would be so proud of myself. So here I am in the beginning of all that with plans to finish my studies and begin a career that could fullfill my creativity and soul. When I stop to think about that, I feel utterly exhilarated - and that's why I'm here.
My daily life is pretty much the same yet fundamentally different. I am studying now instead of working, hanging out with friends, wondering what to shop for for dinner ... you know, a regular life. Probably similar in some ways to the one I would be living if I were still in Abu Dhabi. But what makes it very different, is that my family and friends are not here with me.
Wanderlust Diary-thus far
1. London
2. Bath
3. Stonehenge
4. Bournemouth
5. Staines
6. Liverpool
7. Coventry
I leave you with this thought:
Diamonds and ice cream… could there *be* a happier combination?
Love,
Fearless
Anything is possible. If It’s not part of the plan its ok but I believe one should ‘never say never’.
Backdrop
It's not very often that I sit down and do a "spur of the moment" blog post but I was in a reflective mood and started to think about how different things were for me this time last year. Let's just say that this time last year I was a very different person. I wasn't as happy and I was inside a "Sahar shell" as someone once put it.
I'm not writing this blog post to tell you the back story or to explain how everything got better, but what I do want to do, is reassure any of you that may be going through a hard time, that things DO get better. It may not feel like it, but with a few little changes, they will. Nobody leads the perfect life, and things that you aren't prepared for may get thrown at you, and sometimes it's really very hard to battle those problems and sticky life situations. I just want you to know that you can do it. It might take days, weeks, months or years. Everything happens for a reason and everything we go through molds us as people and make us who we are.
A month and a half ago , I moved from Abu Dhabi to Birmingham, knowing almost nothing about the city other than what I'd learned from reading google and touristic reviews. I moved away from home and i am constantly asked how life had changed, what was different, what stayed the same. What am i missing, what am i learning, and most importantly how am i adapting (in other words SURVIVING).
When I stepped off the plane in Birmingham, my only emotions were excitement and a need to eat. After the pleasant discovery that Birmingham had indoor plumbing (they're just like us!), I unpacked my bags, updated my current city on Facebook, and went out to experience everything. What a beautiful country, with such- I'm sorry, I must have misheard you, I thought you said this can of Coke was 2.50 pounds. What, I have to go pay at the front, even though this is a goddamn restaurant ?? OK, which one of the buttons on my new UK-issued cellphone tells you and this whole place to disappear forever? One of the bottom ones?
So like the sun comes out here, never? For reals? ...it's windy too? why?
Oh so carrying an umbrella is kind of pointless? oh right gotcha.
Despite everything, I am having the time of my life !! I am braving the horrid weather most times, I am also occasionally going into a Mad frenzied fashion shopping hysteria. It's fun, it's fabulous, and I just cant get enough.
I have also met and befriended some awesome people who i now am happy to call my FRIENDS. people from all over the world going through everything i am. The highs , the lows, the funny moments, the ironic moments (When i get turned away more than 3 times from gym induction for various hillarious and frustating reasons).
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When I made my decision of moving countries, I was searching for an exciting and personally challenging experience. When the idea of moving to a different county became a possibility, all I kept thinking was the following: if at the end of my life I could say, "In my mid twenties, I moved to different country, learned to make do on my own, to shake myself out of the habit of having everything done for me and still managed to achieve my personal goals", then I would be so proud of myself. So here I am in the beginning of all that with plans to finish my studies and begin a career that could fullfill my creativity and soul. When I stop to think about that, I feel utterly exhilarated - and that's why I'm here.
My daily life is pretty much the same yet fundamentally different. I am studying now instead of working, hanging out with friends, wondering what to shop for for dinner ... you know, a regular life. Probably similar in some ways to the one I would be living if I were still in Abu Dhabi. But what makes it very different, is that my family and friends are not here with me.
Wanderlust Diary-thus far
1. London
2. Bath
3. Stonehenge
4. Bournemouth
5. Staines
6. Liverpool
7. Coventry
I leave you with this thought:
Diamonds and ice cream… could there *be* a happier combination?
Love,
Fearless
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