People make places, more than places make people

I have been realizing something nowadays. People make places, more than places make people.
It is not the geographic place, where we are, that matters. It’s the people we find in those places. The hard thing of living abroad is that we need to start all over again. Once we manage to establish relationships, life becomes easy.
We start to know a new culture, different points of view, different foods, and different ways of living. A new universe rises upon us and we need to make some changes in order to adapt ourselves to it.
But is there any real difference between us? I realize there isn’t… Black, white, yellow, red… We all turn out to be the same. We are all human beings with virtues and defects.
I met people who think they own the world but I met also great people. People that, for sure I will remind with a smile on my face till the rest of my life. People that made this experience already worth it. Thank you!

True friends

Being far away from my previous life made me get some interesting conclusions of it.
I miss some people more then I thought I would. Others, I thought I played an important role in their lives but I realized… I don’t.
There were some surprises as well. People I like but I did not usually spend too much time with, they actually care about me! That made me realize true friends are not those who we hang out with, but those who are there in case we need theme. We don’t have to stay glued to a person to have her as a friend. We just have to let her know what she means to us once in a while.
A true friendship can also be built in short time. You don’t need to know this person for years, to label her as your friend… And you can know one person for years and still, don’t consider her as a true friend.
Human relationships are complicated. Life is short. Therefore, we have to give everyone a chance to become our friend and not waste time labeling people we don’t know.
I make this mistake often. I start labeling people as “not worth knowing” and by the time I realize I was wrong, it’s already too late. Well, not always too late… Sometimes I have a second chance but still...
Lesson number one: Things are not always as they seem to be.
Lesson number two: Don’t judge people on first impression.

Welcome to my life

I’ve been experiencing some interesting things in my life and I would like to share theme with my friends. Some are not so happy but things not always go as we want. These last few months of my life have been a carrousel of emotions, doubts, conclusions and even some disappointments. And I thought, why not write them down? Maybe some of you could learn something from me. Maybe you would say “Hey! I’ve been there! I know what you mean.” Or maybe no one would care but at least I hope to learn something from it.
Everyone is always asking me how am I doing and this was the way I found to answer you and let you be, somehow, a part of my life.
One time, somewhere in Portugal, there was this girl with a boyfriend, great family and some good friends. The girl had, what other people may consider, everything to live haply ever after. But…She felt like something was missing. That girl is me…
Don’t know if you are familiar to this Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory but for a long time I felt stuck in the 4th step. I couldn’t manage to go up and I was starting to fall down. I couldn’t stay still and don’t do nothing, that was for sure… Still, I was afraid to take a risk but you know…only trees have to stay in the same place forever in order to survive!
I want to do something great in my life. I want to make a difference in the engineer field. I want to have a chance to do what I am good at. I want to grow up as a person and only regret of the things that I have done. Therefore, I packed my bags and I decided to go abroad.