Few days after the new 2018 entered our homes, our hearts and determined our hope for a new beginning, I am looking at the changes that are already at my doorstep. I renamed again my location, address and my journey took an unexpected turn. After living in Dubai for almost three years, I moved to the ‘’Wild, wild west'' - Austin, Texas. I must confess, this has been one of the hardest journeys of mine so far.
To all the people out there who are far away from home, struggling with adaptation to a new culture, new life or new emotions, know that life has its own ways and even if at times it feels crazy and really unbearable, we are stronger than we think. Our world is systemized in a very unfair way. I have been literally given the choice to either be with the person I love or to be with my friends and family (who I obviously love endlessly). You can’t change what you can’t control but you can only change the way you react to the events life serves you. And changes are always hard.
Sometimes even choosing to be happy can be a hard thing and once you can afford to be weak, you just melt until you can’t see the person you have been. Starting something new, no matter if it is a new job, a new friend, new place, new, new, new, things that we don’t know nothing about, scare us the most. And this is something I have been always chasing, to go out of my comfort zone and test my limits, see how good I am actually. Because sometimes even if we think we are good people, life puts us on a test and asks us to proof that we are really the person we were thinking we are. This is not a preach, it is an appeal to everybody who feels that life has been hard during the last 2017 and it seems that 2018 won’t be very easy too. Guess what? Good things are never easy.
So, my advice is to turn your 2018 into the most magical, different and amazing time of your life and once you are thankful for what you already have, life will give you more. Very often life gives not what we want but what we need at the time. And probably I needed this change as much as you needed yours in your life. It made me go back to my true nature, a genuine and passionate human being, with my own mistakes but very true to myself. I don’t have to hide that I am different, weird and with an unusual mindset. This is one of the reasons for the changes we encounter, to reveal our true self or to make us face our biggest fears and demons.
Even the fairy tales are made of tough decisions, struggles and sleepless nights. But at the end, never look back if it’s worth it. Life is like a puzzle with a raised difficulty. It looks like everything is connected with an invisible knot, the decisions, the tickets that we have bought, the risks that we take and the people that we meet. It all at the end brought me to my home. The compass of my heart is not pointing to a place anymore, not to a beach with palms or ancient ruins ready to be explored. It points to a person. It can be myself or someone I love. If you don’t want to escape from your own happiness - choose it.
What would be your choice for 2018?
Happy 2018,
XoXo
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