One of the best part of my Europe trip was I couchsurfed for the first time in Paris. My main goal was I wanted to learn how a Parisian carries out his life in the City of Lights. It was a bit intimidating to enter a stranger's home but the opportunity taught me so much about how a Parisian lives on a daily basis. Besides learning how to live like a Parisian, I discovered they are just like anyone else living on this earth. They want to understand people and life itself and they want to be understood. They want to be loved and cared for by other people; and they have family responsibilities just like anyone else: they need to pay their bills, they go to work every morning, they make dinner, they love their family, etc; I learn there is true kindness out there on the other side of the world, no matter how far it is from my home. Granted, I stayed at hotels and hostels for most of my Europe trip but living in a native's home shows me the reality of Paris and more importantly it created a more meaningful experience.
Someone once told me 20% of success comes from education and 80% of the success comes from the people I meet. My trip proves that, if it was not for the people, I would not have a safe and successful trip. I am grateful for the beauty that I cannot see elsewhere in the world and especially to the people who made the trip great and beyond my wild imagination. If it was not for the tour guide, the bus driver, the Parisian man who welcomed me to his home, the walking tour guides, the Paris and London greeters, I would never have a safe and meaningful trip. I made friends from all over the world at every destination I walk on and the feeling of knowing that a part of me belongs to each part of the world is beyond my wildest dream. I have became the people I met on the road in Europe and they became somewhat me. The world is all connected one way or another and only traveling can teach me that first hand. My younger sister gave me this quote, "Don't you ever regret knowing someone in your life. Good people will give you happiness, bad people will give you experience, while the worst people will give you a lesson and the best people will always give you memories." I met some of the best people in this foreign land and they gave me memories that will follow me for the rest of my life, it is not the experience per se that brings joy to a person, it is the relationships that was built during the trip and it is all that matters.
Overall I did not have a high expectation for my Europe trip but I discovered more than what I initially intended. Life is funny sometimes, it puts us in a position where we feel like it is the end of the world but at the same time that very position also shows us new roads in life. I had a low expectation for the Europe trip but it opens my eyes to the world and to opportunities that I would never thought of. Maybe sometimes when life gives us lemon, we should always make good use of it and make lemonade out of it and maybe that lemonade is the cure for our inadequacy and our shortcomings. So maybe the solutions to all problems in life is not to get frustrated and to change the situations sometimes, maybe the solution is to sit back and create opportunities out of it.
Someone once told me 20% of success comes from education and 80% of the success comes from the people I meet. My trip proves that, if it was not for the people, I would not have a safe and successful trip. I am grateful for the beauty that I cannot see elsewhere in the world and especially to the people who made the trip great and beyond my wild imagination. If it was not for the tour guide, the bus driver, the Parisian man who welcomed me to his home, the walking tour guides, the Paris and London greeters, I would never have a safe and meaningful trip. I made friends from all over the world at every destination I walk on and the feeling of knowing that a part of me belongs to each part of the world is beyond my wildest dream. I have became the people I met on the road in Europe and they became somewhat me. The world is all connected one way or another and only traveling can teach me that first hand. My younger sister gave me this quote, "Don't you ever regret knowing someone in your life. Good people will give you happiness, bad people will give you experience, while the worst people will give you a lesson and the best people will always give you memories." I met some of the best people in this foreign land and they gave me memories that will follow me for the rest of my life, it is not the experience per se that brings joy to a person, it is the relationships that was built during the trip and it is all that matters.
Overall I did not have a high expectation for my Europe trip but I discovered more than what I initially intended. Life is funny sometimes, it puts us in a position where we feel like it is the end of the world but at the same time that very position also shows us new roads in life. I had a low expectation for the Europe trip but it opens my eyes to the world and to opportunities that I would never thought of. Maybe sometimes when life gives us lemon, we should always make good use of it and make lemonade out of it and maybe that lemonade is the cure for our inadequacy and our shortcomings. So maybe the solutions to all problems in life is not to get frustrated and to change the situations sometimes, maybe the solution is to sit back and create opportunities out of it.
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