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I was facing a phase of bullying for years and felling that I was losing myself everyday. Feeling tired of not being me anymore, with everybody teaching me how I supposed to be normal, I was different and I wished that I could see that before but I just wanted to run away where I could find my own voice. When my sixteen’s birthday was getting close, I asked my mom to go to Los Angeles on my birthday. We had never travelled out of the country before, I choose LA for being so unpredictable like me, you can hike the mountains, go to the beach, ski in the snow, see all the stars of your favorites movies, a lot of possibilities in the same place and this made me realize that I can be anything that I want in the same time. It was 30th of November, I took a nap and when I opened my eyes I saw the colors of sky turning into gold, I was always a big fan of sunsets and the plane was passing through all this beauty. We were going to the hotel and I couldn’t take the smile of my face, at first I saw the snow and in the other side the Hollywood sign very far, the famous palms was showing up, I was feeling inside of a movie and my soundtrack was Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Although, it was not easy, in the first moment I had to speak English with a native for the first time and I was scared, my mother doesn’t speak and my little sister was only 9 months, every was so difficult she was scared to drive in a big city like this but we faced or fears and opened new doors, we normally don’t see but this little things makes a lot of difference. Every corner that I looked my eyes turn into light, the city of angles was taking the darkness inside away, I was feeling that I could be myself again. The people was kind crazy, some of them was really crazy but I was loving it, the judging eyes was not finding me. I set free the thought “what people will think” of my mind, I died my hair, started buying clothes that I really liked, doing make ups with happy colours, that was the moment where I started looking more inside me, seeing what I have to offer to the world, I was proud of all my talents, things that I left behind like writing, drawing, painting, dancing, singing was coming back to me. That Clara who arrived was definitely not the same that was leaving, I stayed so many time holding me back that I exploded. How could a place change someone so much? I don’t know the exactly answer but unconscious we take a little part of every place we go, every people we talk and this stays with us forever in our hearts and souls. When I went back to my city, everyone was like “who is her?”, from that day until now I am constantly changing for better, trying new things, always taking risks. That people who judged me and made me feel bad for being myself now they try to be like more me, I only find it funny how the world turns to a place that you could never imagined. As a truly sagitarian, I hate being in the same place for a long time, having a routine it is like torture for me, the unknown makes me feel alive and I think that the we can learn so much from the world, it can offer so much more than just sit in a chair listening to a monologue of people just repeating what things it is supposed to be instead of getting out and learning by yourself. My destiny is getting close to find me, I will walk in some many places, meeting new people, knowing their culture, their knowledge and passing mine to them, learning new skills, new languages, helping them in the way that I could possible do. That is my mission here, spread my love turning into art and changing peoples lifes.