The summer is finally over. On saturday the 18th of September it will end officially as this is my first day of university - first day of adult life...I just hope it will bring some kind of an end to this carefree, crazy, untroubled summer. These 3 months of drinking, partying and going mental were unforgettable however this has to stop one day and I hope it finally will. However this summer hasn't been so pointless. I've met a lot of interesting people, been to a lot of beautiful places and experiences hundreds of situations all stacking up to once become a part of my life experience. I've learnt some lessons. Very important ones I believe as they, I hope, will help to guide me through university:
1. Expectations - are a whole load of bullshit. Never expect anything and you will never be disappointed. Although some people say that once you expect something you will do whatever to achieve that, but I think that's a big misconception. If you expect something you wait for it to happen, you anticipate a certain thing. You expect it to happen or appear just out of the blue without putting in a tiny bit of effort. So if you don't expect anything you can only be delighted by whatever happens, you can never be disappointed because you don't expect anything. Just imagine a simple situation. You buy a ticket to see the latest musical in London. You expect it to be amazing so you spend a fortune on the tickets, on your outfit and so on. If you expect it to be brilliant there are two outcomes: a) you say: "you see this was as amazing as I presumed" or b) "it was so bad, I wish I never went to see it, totally not what I expected". In either outcomes you can not be pleasantly surprised you can only be disappointed, however if you presume nothing whatsoever you can only be pleasantly surprised, or not care about it as you didn't expect anything from it. Same happened to me...I expected to get a high score in my IB diploma, and guess what didn't do enough work fucked it up and in the end was immensely disappointed. So why the hell did I expect anything from myself? I should have worked hard, I should have spent 24/7 studying and not expecting. "Que sera sera - Whatever will be will be" - is the way forward.
That's all I can think of now... Ofcourse there is more of everyday stuff I've learnt, afterall I lived alone for a couple of month after what my house looked like a ghetto but whatever. I learnt from my mistakes.