journal

I recently moved to Europe, away from family, friends and everything I held dear. To live on my own. In a country I haven’t visited before, with a language I don’t understand and a culture I’m not familiar with. This massive change brought a set of challenges and discomforts. But I’m also experiencing something I haven’t fully embraced before. Solitude. Space to reflect. Time to understand myself. Opportunity to raise questions and find answers. Though the answers aren’t always what you expect. ...

Talk is cheap. It is meaningless unless backed by actions. How many times have I failed to execute an action that I had promised myself to? How many times have I knowingly wasted my time even though that’s the biggest thing I preach to others? How many times have I delayed a task or completely skipped it knowing that it was going to benefit me if I push through that face? ...

3:07 am Life is all about perspective, you know. One day you’re thinking you have nothing going good in life. You feel like everybody is passing you by. You only think and look at the things that are going bad. Until you take a moment to sit down and think about what’s going great. Until you can stop and look at the things that make your life so blissful. Until you stop and realize that you have a wonderful life as it is. ...