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“How about coming to Korea? It has been a long time since you left, you know." Hearing these words from the phone made me speechless. My mother, ignoring my silence, kept on talking about the benefits of staying in Korea.
After I hung up the phone, all the precious memories I had in India quickly flashed across my mind. I had lived in India for four years apart from my parents. My friends in school did everything together and even lived together in dormitories; like a family. I definitely could not leave them with all the invaluable memories we shared. The different educational system also was a huge barrier for me to move to Korea. I knew that the education and the way the Korean students receive it differed from ours. There was absolutely no way to compete with students who have twelve hours of classes in school. However, somewhere deep inside my heart, I wanted to challenge myself by trying something new.
In school I was an outgoing person; who loved sports and participated in various activities. Thus it led me to build up wide range of relationships, which need collective effort and cooperation with others. Frankly, I was afraid of loosing the relationship, and the fact that I had to start everything from scratch. Nevertheless, the fright vanished because my parents believed in me.
Realizing that someone trust me gave me a powerful effect. It gave me support, hope, and most importantly - courage to do something that I feared. The faith grew in myself and gave me strength to dare myself to stay in Korea. I then, had enough courage to test myself how well I will adapt to my new life. It was a great risk, but faith assured and allowed me to take it. Though leaving my friends behind was painful, I belived I will gain good things from living in Korea.
Now that I know my parents belive in me whatever I do; I became more stronger. Living in Korea and attending in a school in Korea is not that awful as I thought before. Though I still need collective effort and cooperation with others, I am happy to live here with my family and new friends I made.