Something I have always been confident of is how well I know myself. I can usually predict how I am going to react to certain situations and can easily identify how I feel towards something or someone. I have never thought of myself as someone that cares too much about others’ opinions, and so didn’t think that moving somewhere where I won’t know anyone would make that much of a difference.
However, after my first semester living away from home, I realised that many things changed, and I thought up many different theories to explain this. The one I am most confident with is based on the fact that I grew up with the same friends and family, and naturally they each have an idea of whom I am.For example, my mother knows that I hate sushi, and so we would never go out to eat at a sushi place. This means that I haven’t tried sushi again since I first tried it and hated it when I was thirteen, despite the fact that my opinion on this may have changed. My point is, all of these people I grew up with have a notion of who I am, and by living in such close contact with them before I was held in place by these ideas, for example, I would never even think to try sushi because I hate it, everyone knows that I hate it.But when I moved to Emory last August I met many people who didn’t know I hated sushi and so asked me to a sushi restaurant.In other similar situations, and even more serious ones, I realized that my opinions and tastes evolved these past few years, and I wasn’t aware of this before because I wouldn’t even think to try these new things. These past few months I have learned things about myself that I wouldn’t have if I had stayed in my hometown for the university, or at least it would have taken me a couple of years to learn them as opposed to one semester. While moving seems like an extreme measure to take only for the sake of self-exploration, I believe that at least once in your life it is worth it.Politics and ActivismJan 29, 2018
You Should 100% Try Moving Someplace Where You Don’t Know Anyone
How living somewhere completely knew can teach you a lot of things about yourself.
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