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Sunday, August 12, 2012

Striking out on my life-changing adventure


Some people can tell the most amazing stories about their life-changing experience. Sorry. I can’t top adventures like climbing the Mount Everest and meditating with Tibetan monks. However, my story might not be too mundane, since it has been quite a rocky road until I got to my life-changing experience. 

At the age of eighteen the ‘Matura’, or school-leaving examination, seems to be a huge insurmountable thing that you don’t know how on earth you’re ever going to accomplish. You expect that getting the certificate to show you passed will somehow be life changing. But as soon as you’re finished with school, there’s just a big hole in your chest, filled with the question ‘What am I gonna do now?’ Fortunately, I had asked myself that question a bit earlier.