"Why so?" - that's the question that Swedish higher education taught me to ask all the time. I learned to re-evaluate the given, take a critical look at practices that are deeply ingrained in the culture, such as marriage, sexual orientation, traveling, education, family and religion. I never used to be active in conversations concerning these topics but now I do feel free to express my views even if they are not too acceptable among certain groups of people. In other words, I learned to love a good discussion which I always wanted to achieve, because these always make you see things in a different lighting.
Also, as I mentioned in some of my previous posts, I wanted to live surrounded by another culture and meet people with different backgrounds. Well, it's been three years and I did check all the boxes in that list - I made quite a few friends, went to a gay party in one of those giant luxurious apartments they show in the movies, rode a bike home drunk at night countless times and wrote a BA thesis that I am pretty damn proud of. Oh, and flew to Italy where me and my uni friends spent a week together back in July, just caj,Sweden is not on my travel list anymore because it wasn't about the country itself. It was all about the experience. Throwing yourself out there and growing into a really open-minded, social and self-confident critical thinker I became or am on the way to becoming, only time will show.
