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Curiosity and an adventurous spirit led me to Grenada, a beautiful island in the Carribean. Not knowing anyone residing there, I relied only on the blogs I read about the place. I reached out on Couchsurfing to some locals and met some friendly people, but probably the most significant meeting was the one with myself, the real myself, the one without the masks on. I had a huge emotional breakdown and ended up in a mental institution, which for me has been more like a jail or quarantine. Looking back at the experience, I’m grateful for everything that happened because it thought me the most valuable life lessons I needed to learn. It’s been a hard pill to swallow that my pride and stubbornness will always just backfire to me, so I just need to let them go. While being stuck in this place for a couple of weeks, I met Renee, a local lady that has her own issues, but is the purest soul you can imagine. Connecting with her felt absolutely natural, but me being emotionally unstable, unfortunately I ended hurting her feelings on countless times. She, however always did forgive me and continued supporting me and being there whenever I needed a shoulder to cry on. Together we laughed and cried and as bizarre as it may sound I’m happy that I ended up there and experienced what I experienced. While being in the middle of it has been utterly painful, uncomfortable and triggered all my weak points, pushed all my buttons and it felt like I was dieing slowly, when actually the new version of myself was trying to get out of the cocoon. Renee thought me the lesson of accepting yourself as you are, be grateful for the little things and love yourself even if hardships are rocking your boat. Her bubbly personality, her kindness and genuine character have been truly an example that I’ll never forget. She’s true to herself and even though I hurt her so much on so many occasions, she was there for me no matter what. Who would expect this from a complete stranger, right? Sadly I wasn’t well enough at that time in my life to show my appreciation to her, but I hope one day I will be able to thank her from my heart that I am who I am right now thanks to her example. She’s been my guardian angel and she will forever be my sister in faith. Making me laugh when on the inside I was crying and joking about my silly actions always cheered me up. If more people like her existed on Earth, the world would be a better place. With all the regrets that I hurt her and my stupid stubbornness, I do hope that one day I’ll be able to pass forward these lessons . We all need a rock to rely on and that’s our faith in God, Universe, Supreme Power or whatever name we give to it, but to me it proved to be true that taking a step back and looking at the bigger picture is all that we should do. I never thought that in such circumstances I’d meet someone so special and dear to me. With deep regrets that I hurt her often, I hope she knows in her heart that I value her more than I am capable of showing. Forever grateful to Renee.