Tranquil's studying challenge 2022
Believe it or not I completly missed the post so I am starting this challenge after it has begun. In this post I will catch up with the first questions I have missed (from the 16th of February to the 18th, so yesterday), but then I will incorporate the challenge in my daily posts, as I normally do.
Day One: The beginning of the challenge, woohoo you did it! A lot of the time starting is the hardest part. So, tell us a little bit about yourself! What are you studying currently, what where are you in your life right now? Are you happy with where you are right now? What are your goals in doing this challenge? (this is taken from the last challenge! I loved all the answers you guys gave for it so I’m bringing it back!)
Hello there! Lots of informations for this first question. I'm Cris, I'm an history university student, and I am currently studying for my last exam before the end of my degree. It's a huge exam on the philosophy of science, and I will have the test in April. After I'll be done with this I'll have to work on my thesis, and if everything goes well I'll graduate in the summer. It's kind of scary actually, so I try not to think about it too much. I am quite happy at the moment, although there's room for improvement as always. I don't really have a goal in doing this challenge, I simply had a lot of fun with the last one, and when I found out about this one I was super excited!
Day Two: Tell us about an unforgettable adventure you’ve got to experience in your life. Bonus points if you share pictures to go along with it!
The Baggins in me has the perfect adventure story to talk about. When I graduated from high school in 2018 me and three of my friends had an interrail trip of two weeks to celebrate. It was absolutely amazing, we travelled with huge backpacks through the north of France, Denmark and Germany. The word adventure is perfect to describe this trip, not only because of all the travelling and exciting things that happened, but also because for me it was a turning point in my life. I don't talk about it much on here, but I suffer from anxiety and panic attacks quite badly, and although I was excited about the trip I freaked out before we left, I was ready to give up on everything. In the end I did it, and I had so much fun. I changed and learned so much in those two weeks. I have very fond memories of it. I also got a small tattoo during this holiday, so I think about it everytime I see that on my wrist. Here's two of the hundreds of photos we took in during those two weeks. The first one was made in our fisrt stop in Rouen, while the second one was taken in Copenaghen.
Day Three: What in your life has not gone as you planned it to go? Did it end up better or worse than you expected?
I'm sure many of things didn't go as planned, but I couldn't think of any. The first one that came to mind is this weird story. For some reason this story starts again in 2018 after I graduated from high school (there's a theme going on apparently). It was in my plans to get two tattoos to symbolize the end of a chapter of my life and the start of another. These two tattoos are an ouroborus (a snake biting its own tail, Jormungnadr for those who know a bit of norse mythology), and the other one a snake forming a spiral. These two symbols have many meanings, but the reason for which I wanted to do them at the time is that snakes symbolize regeneration and healing. I had a lot of bad stuff to let go of after high school, and a lot to heal from, so it felt like is was an accurate moment. The thing is, for a series of events, which I wouldn,'t even be able to explain, I ended up not getting them. Fast forward when I managed to get them at the end of 2019 (btw in doing so I found out my current tattoo artist, who is amazing, and it's already enough of a reason to say it was worth for things not to follow plans). A few months prior I had finally broken off a toxic friendship I had since high school. It was a major moment for me for many reasons, but after ending this frindship I felt like I was reborn, even though I still had a lot of healing to go through. You can see why the coincidence of the delay of these tattoos, has a big meaning for me. That was actually the right moment to get them, and I can say that I have done much healing since then, and I abolutely adore my two snakes.