3 Things You Learn When You Move Abroad

Guilherme Ribeiro | January 11, 2016

2. Your Mind Expands

Exactly because you start living in such a foreign world, you begin to analyze your own country and most of the time see it with kind eyes.

The same way I saw safety in Europe, I saw extreme poverty in India and I thought that Brazil was very lucky in this sense. I mean, we do have extreme poverty in many areas of Brazil, but India is one particular place where it seems to be everywhere.

Barney Moss

So when you start comparing countries and continents, you naturally become a better version of yourself. The things you took for granted might not even exist in a place you visit and you wonder why.

Am I the lucky one surrounded by technology and opportunities in my home country, or is this man I can see from the balcony here in Myanmar the lucky one, with his life comprised of fishing and fending for his family?

Lester Ledesma

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