Be The Inspiration

It is always during those random late nights where you try to sleep and your brain just keeps on thinking about things that, as much as as you try to suppress it, you can't stop yourself from thinking about it.

So here I am, huddling under my cover in my depressingly cold bedroom at the top floor of my flat, thinking about where would I end up at after graduating this Summer. To be honest, I really would like to stay on for my Masters in the UK. But my heart is already at somewhere else. I don't know where but I think I'm coming to the acceptance stage where my journey in the UK is really coming to an end.

It's been almost 5 months since I got here. I've changed inevitably in so many ways I couldn't comprehend. The way I speak, the people that have came into my life and impacted me to think differently. To be more open to new ideas and cultures. It's terrifying but it shouldn't short change your experience of studying abroad. I'm glad that some things happened the way it did. Or else I wouldn't have discover that I could be courageous and independent for my own sake. Ha. And learning how to cook!

This just struck me minutes before I started writing this but maybe, just perhaps, I don't need to stay on in the UK to make my life happier, contented and what not. People think that if they continue to stay on in the UK it would do good for them in terms of getting a job or a citizenship and the most common of all, better quality of living. But what I finally understood is that there are plenty of opportunities out there that offers the same or maybe even better experiences one could have had if they step foot elsewhere. It's not wrong to try your best to get a job in the foreign country that you had study at. My cousin landed a job in the states last year after studying for almost 4 years in engineering. I'm pretty sure he's not gonna be going back to Malaysia anytime soon.

But what I'm trying to say is, we all can make our own adventure wherever we go, whoever we meet. I once ask a friend of mine what was his plans after graduating in the UK. Instead of giving me the cliché answer of "I'll try to get a job here." He told me that he'll go wherever the circumstances would bring him to. And that inspired me so much to be open about my decision after I leave Sunderland.

I hope that wherever I end up at in the future, I'll be able to inspire the people there. Just as much as I've been inspired by my friends here in the small town Sundy.

Be Inspiring,
JC