What I Learnt From A Trip to Bali with Friends

The Udin Explorer

So  I just came back from a trip to Bali with a group of friends and having some kind of withdrawal. Suddenly living without them is not the norm for me. It just feels right not having to wake up early and wake everybody up, not being able to have late night galau sessions and stuffs like that. Dayum, my life will be very bland after the trip. 

Anyways, I learnt quite some stuffs about things in general and a bit about myself too through this trip. The trip was full of only happy things on the first few days, the only glitches were when one of us fell sick, all the girls got our monthly guest at the same time and of course rain when we were outdoor. But on our last full day all hell broke loose. This is where most of my lessons came from. First, you can't please everyone. There will always be someone who feel that every unfortunate event befall on him. Trips together requires patience and understanding because communal interest is the most important. We can't just force everyone to follow our wants simply because we are all in one and the same level. Second, you really need to travel together to find out someone's true personality. I guess this trip has made quite a lot of us step out of our comfort zone and forced us to spend a whole lot more time with each other than what we are used to. That is probably the reason why all our true colours are being shown. One of us even said that it is better to travel together to somewhere foreign to both parties before deciding whether to marry someone. Third, regret ALWAYS comes later and opportunities don't come by easily. So, I low-key wanted to take photo with someone and rejected it just because I was shy (?). I don't even know what I was thinking about but I'm still regretting the fact that I didn't take up that chance *le sigh*. 

I don't really have something that I learned about myself, it was more of an affirmation. It just confirms that I'm scared of loneliness. I'm okay with being alone but sometimes loneliness can eat me up inside even in a room full of people. I need to work on my feeling control and self-pity. I know loneliness is all in my head, I can always do something to stop that loneliness (right?). 

So yup, that's what I learned from the trip. For everything that we went through during the trip, I want to go with them again, wake them up in the morning and all that. The feeling of not knowing the next time I can meet them is currently suffocating me. But anyways, I had a load of fun and I hope they did too :) 'Till we meet again, friends!