This year, 2023, no, I should have said 2022 and 2023 are some of the best years of my life. Not only because I am able to study the subject that I have been really passionate about in a country that I have been wanting to visit for a long time, but also I learn a lot, more, great deal about life, emotion, personal development, friendship, and my own self in general.
Am I exaggerating? Perhaps, but not quite. I must say, that the experiences I have had so far in my time in London, or, in UK generally, teach that, really, “Be careful what you wish for.” Because that’s exactly what I did. Wishing for different experience that I would ever get in Indonesia, but yeah, I got the most stressful, if not, the most bizarre experiences in my life.
Let’s start with the accident, which a few people have known about, but not everyone understands the implication that it has done to my life. The details are of course interesting, “What kind of accident?” “Were you okay?” “How did it happen?”, but let’s just stop at those questions. All I can say that it was bizarre, and of course I was partially at fault, although in my defence, I can say that it was probably “the car’s fault” too. Or the weather. But it does not matter, because the purpose of this blog is not finding someone or something to blame, but to reflect what it has done to my self, or my life.
First, I must say, that I learned a lot more about cars after the accident. To appeal with the car rental company as well as for my own sanity, which I will come back later to address the latter. Let’s talk about the car first. I learned that the car has been recalled for “ABS system might cause fire.” or something like that. How did I know that? From the UK government system, which I must say is really comprehensive and convenient. Which comes to my second thing that I learn about UK.
Second, I learned a little bit about UK consumer rights and how it tried to protect its citizens. Which kind of makes me wonder, “what would have happened if I had this accident in Indonesia?” I am not saying that Indonesia does not have that, but perhaps, Indonesia does not yet provide the kind of help that I received for my problems.
Third, law abiding citizens or individualism? To be fair, I am not sure. I had to stand up for two hours- or more, or less, I am not sure -outside in 0 or minus something degree, in celcius of course. A few people stopped, but none stayed. To be fair, it was in the middle of no where, with almost none reception (luckily, O2 got signal over there, which was quite surprising, given that in London I could experience “page error” while opening a website). Which made me really question, “what would have happened in Indonesia?” I did not want to compare, but surely the purpose of experiences is to make you learn about the “pattern” so you could “avoid” the same mistake, or relive the experience again, depending on how you feel about that experience. So, what would have happened? It’s just a speculation, of course, but I think, Indonesians would have offered to fix the car. But is it safe to do that? Again, I am not sure what would have happened in Indonesia. Luckily, the car was drivable. So, back to the first sentence of this paragraph, are UK citizens law-abiding or just individualists? Again, I am not sure. But it is something to ponder about in the shower.
Fourth, I really learned a lot about people and friendship during my hardest time. I lost friends but also gained some new friendships, which I hope, would last beyond my time at LSHTM.
Fifth, the full-blown depression and anxiety. Which is the main “course” of this blog, hence the title. But I am going to continue this blog next time.
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