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Shani
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Date Posted: 10:04:29 11/07/04 Sun
In reply to:
lara
's message, "Anyone live in the UK?" on 19:31:49 11/06/04 Sat
>I am contemplating studying at Oxford next year? I
>would be going abroad as a junior.
>I think going could be amazing. But I am scared as
>Hell that I will not be able to handle it. I don't
>know what I am more afraid of: the food, the work, the
>change... (What I eat is vegetables and nutrition
>bars. I cannot eat "prepared" dishes; I haven't in
>over 7 years.) But, I keep thinking that I could,
>possibly, grow so much. Just maybe I would find myself
>there, which is more than I could ask for. I don't
>want to make this decision based on fear, so if I base
>it on what I believe I will regret, I might very well
>be throwing myself into something I won't be able to
>handle, which isn't any better. I just want "this
>life" to be over, and I think that in going I could
>perhaps do that. I could change so much. But then I
>know that I can never escape myself, and that is what
>I dream of most. I want to go, but I am so scared of
>it all...
>
>So if anyone lives in the UK, could you maybe tell me
>about it–food and all?
>I would really appreciate it.
>
>lara
Lara,
Personally, I think that you should do it...weird food habits and all. I moved from GA to Chicago a little over a year ago. It's not moving overseas, by any means, but my reasoning was the same as yours. I wanted to grow and change and become someone different. And I have done those things. It's amazing (like Fran said) the difference that I see in myself from when I was living there in GA. I see myself then and see how much more mature and free I am now. I do struggle with how people to see me and I still hate to eat in front of people and all of those things, but I am self-sufficient now. It's like I needed to do this to know that I could take of myself and wasn't going to end up like the people that I knew back home. I felt like I was drowning there. It was hard moving here and having to face some things about myself, but it was worth it. I say, go to England. When are you ever going to have a chance like that again? Do it now while you are young and have few ties. You don't want to look back and regret not taking this chance.
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