26/06/2025
đThis post is for those who still feel uncertain even after getting their passport stamped.
Those who arrive with dreams in their eyes, but often feel disheartened by reality.
The first few months â you will break.
The new language, unfamiliar environment, living aloneâit all weighs down on you.
Youâll walk into your room, phone in hand, stare at your momâs number, and sit in silence.
But this is just the beginningâbreaking is the first step toward rebuilding.
No one will tell you âYou can do itââbut youâll have to.
Everyone abroad is busy. No one will say, âCome on, letâs walk this path together.â
Youâll have to stand beside yourself, as your own shadow and support.
Youâll learn to work, but more than thatâyouâll learn humility.
Maybe you were the top student back home,
but your first job here might be cleaning bathrooms.
Believe me, that experience will make you nobleâon the inside.
Youâll master budgeting without a calculator.
Because one wrong calculation could mean going a day without food.
Back in Bangladesh, wasting 500 taka might have meant nothingâ
Here, spending ÂŁ5 without thinking feels like a punch in the chest.
Youâll realize âsleepâ and âlazinessâ are luxuries.
In those first months, you might sleep only 3 hours a night,
work two jobs, and still tell yourself, âI need to push a little more.â
Youâll be most grateful for the tiniest things.
A warm cup of tea, a phone call from someone back home,
a roommateâs random smileâ
everything will feel as precious as diamonds.
You will change, but the fire inside you will burn even brighter.
Someone might say, âYouâve changed a lot.â
Youâll just smileâbecause no one knows the battles youâve fought inside.
That first year is everything.
If you can survive that one yearâ
youâre not just an expat,
youâre a living warrior.âźď¸ ăviral㡠ăviralăˇfypăˇăviralăˇalăˇ
