All in Life
My biggest fear starting university had been the studying part, could I after all these years know how to accommodate to that? However, there turned out to be a part of starting university that I hadn’t even considered to be an obstacle, and that was the social side of things.
So. It’s Christmas. Most of our cohabitants are very excited, after all, it’s Christmas, the jolly family celebration. But what if that’s not your cup of tea? What if you even dislike the holidays?
There’s stress, and then there’s holiday stress. The crushing dread of not having enough time to do things and too many things to do. How are you supposed to survive this and somehow enjoy the holidays?
I think we’ve all seen this scene: the protagonist enters a dimly lit, smoky room occupied by a mysterious middle-aged woman sitting at a table. She lays out a deck of elaborate cards to the protagonist who is immediately drawn to a card. They turn it over. The picture? The hanged man.
A hunting creative non-fiction story about the not-so-commonly-discussed nature of (reverse) cultural shock and the struggle of acculturation.
