Threat or Opportunity?

In life everything depends on the prism that we look by. People sometimes do not realize the importance of having a correct attitude towards different situations presented to them. In Spain we say: “If a problem does not have solution, it is not a problem (it’s a fact!)”.

In this way, when you STAY for some time in a foreign country, your perception of everything is inevitably changed. Being in an unknown environment, in a strange place with a different culture, can make an easy activity, as it is to take the bus to home, turn into a real deal. Daily things that you used to do are deleted from your normal life.

You are obliged to restart and reinvent yourself, and this can be scary for a young man/woman that does not even know what he wants to do in his/her life. And it is then, when someone is alone and in danger, when the attitude makes the difference between success and fail.

Getting out of your host home can mean a threat of getting lost, or just an opportunity to explore! The same way, speaking in other language than yours can be a threat of being wrong and misunderstood, or an opportunity to learn more!

So on, the staying experience can be seen as a THREAT for the world that we are used to live and understand, or an OPPORTUNITY to expand the horizons of our mind.

Personally, I prefer the second one ;)

Manuel Sanchez