While this may be culture shock at its best, I've noticed many disturbing things on my exchange trip to Scandinavia. I'm currently living in Helsinki at the moment, and I've been introduced to people from all over Europe and Scandinavia. Usually there are three things that makes me different from the rest of them.
Motivation, determination and dreams.
Maybe it's the fact that Americans are indoctrinated to believe that they can be anything, but it really is (in my opinion) a good thing. It really just bothers me that these Finns, Swedes, Norwegians, Danes and really any other Europeans just don't care how they live and are happy with what they have. (Thus the "Happiness Index" is so high)
Most Swedes and Finns live in a single apartment, do not care how much money they make, and live on the bare minimum, and they're happy. Now, I could live like that for a bit, but I have dreams I wish to pursue such as to have a bigger house, space to breathe, and an environment in which I would be happy. A goal.
Even most of these students from Europe want to be very normal things and live a basic life (e.g. teachers, workers behind a desk). Maybe it's just me, but its starting to wear me down. I've lost some work ethic and motivation just being here. It worries me.
Whenever I work out, I think of that end goal. That Arnie type build. Whenever the Finns work out, it's to keep in shape day to day. I cannot stand doing that. I have to have a goal in my mind. Whenever I do a policy brief for class (political science here), I think of me submitting one to the President and having him look over it.
Maybe it's not because I'm American.
Maybe it's because I'm in college. Maybe it's because of the red pill.
All I know is, stagnation and mediocrity make me sick. I hate to generalize, but that's all I'm seeing here so far.
But let's look on the bright side. I'm slaying pussy here so easily because of my mindset, it's like these girls have never seen anything like that before.
So cheers to that
Motivation, determination and dreams.
Maybe it's the fact that Americans are indoctrinated to believe that they can be anything, but it really is (in my opinion) a good thing. It really just bothers me that these Finns, Swedes, Norwegians, Danes and really any other Europeans just don't care how they live and are happy with what they have. (Thus the "Happiness Index" is so high)
Most Swedes and Finns live in a single apartment, do not care how much money they make, and live on the bare minimum, and they're happy. Now, I could live like that for a bit, but I have dreams I wish to pursue such as to have a bigger house, space to breathe, and an environment in which I would be happy. A goal.
Even most of these students from Europe want to be very normal things and live a basic life (e.g. teachers, workers behind a desk). Maybe it's just me, but its starting to wear me down. I've lost some work ethic and motivation just being here. It worries me.
Whenever I work out, I think of that end goal. That Arnie type build. Whenever the Finns work out, it's to keep in shape day to day. I cannot stand doing that. I have to have a goal in my mind. Whenever I do a policy brief for class (political science here), I think of me submitting one to the President and having him look over it.
Maybe it's not because I'm American.
Maybe it's because I'm in college. Maybe it's because of the red pill.
All I know is, stagnation and mediocrity make me sick. I hate to generalize, but that's all I'm seeing here so far.
But let's look on the bright side. I'm slaying pussy here so easily because of my mindset, it's like these girls have never seen anything like that before.
So cheers to that