I went on a dreamed solo trip and it was the best decision ever

I went on a dreamed solo trip and it was the best decision ever I went on a solo trip to a foreign country for a week and it was the best decision I have ever made. I think everyone can relate to the feeling of wanting to do something, but being too afraid to go out an do it, or feeling like you can't do things alone. I've always wanted to go somewhere, but felt that trips had to be done with others and that my speech would hold me back - it didn't. I find that with people like us, we underestimate our selves so much and sometimes believe that we are not smart or capable of doing the things we want to do like others do everyday. Because it was a foreign country, I hardly had to speak, I only knew basic words and phrases and even then I didn't really have to use them. I found myself going majority of the days without talking, even though I'm not able to speak fluently I was completely capable to go places I wanted to go, eat the food I wanted and buy what I wanted. The trip was a total reset on how I viewed myself. Each day I was waking up and looking in the mirror and feeling so much better and beginning to be ok with who I was looking at. I realised that I wasn't as dumb as I thought I was, I was managing this whole trip solo in a foreign country, going to places and doing things I always wanted to do. I was capable of doing these things I've imagined doing for so long, and this whole time I could have just done it. I could do it all along. It's crazy, I'm back in my home country right now writing this with such new found happiness and confidence in myself - I'm back to my stuttering ways now that I'm back and needing to speak, but I know that it doesn't really matter. I know what others may think of me, but I feel like I know myself so much better than before and now I can live with myself a bit more peacefully than before. I went and did something I always wanted to do, I did it, im not so stupid afterall. Those fearful thoughts of being an old woman on her death bed, thinking of all the things I wanted to do and regretted not doing - this was one less thing to feel regretful of. Go out and do it, whatever it is, doing it is so much better than imagining it!