These past years in London have shaped much of my adult life and who I am today. Phases of life are so interesting, and I believe there are lessons to be learned in each one.
I had always imagined moving somewhere else because London didn’t really feel like home, and it took a while before it started to feel like home. And so I couldn’t envision settling down here, I also felt the need to explore at least somewhere else before making that decision and choosing to stay.
At the time of leaving London, I feel like I now live in the most perfect place I’ve ever lived in. It’s rented, but it’s still my home. I’ve always wanted to have my own space, which is why it also feels very special to me, and It’s a big part of what helped me through the whole lockdown period. So it feels strange to leave it behind so soon.
🤔 Some thoughts I had as I was writing this:
What makes a place feel like home?
What am I leaving behind?
What does home mean to me?
Can I make a home of this new place? — I’d like to, and I hope that it’s good to me.
I’d love to dig deeper into these points as time passes. If you have thoughts on these, I’d love to hear from you.
I guess I’ve always wanted to be flexible enough to say yes to new opportunities in life, which has its pros and cons..… I hope to find the opportunities that stick and remain true over time.
There’s a lot of bleakness in the world right now, and, for the past few months, I’ve been getting increasingly anxious about our safety and what the near future will even look like. These days I’m just grateful to be here and in good health.
If any of this resonates, or you’ve got some tips for me as I make this move, I’d love to hear from you. You can reply to this email or leave a comment :)
Take care ✌🏾
Cool things:
I’ll be adding a new segment to my letters to share some things that I’ve enjoyed. Let me know If you also end up liking any of them.
Are you living the life you want to live? by Taz Alam — “One of Taz’s biggest fears is to settle for the life handed to you and submit to merely existing instead of truly living. While trying to find her way in life, she discovered her passion for spoken word poetry. She shares her journey of leaving behind the safe and stable path and taking the daring step to pursue her dreams and passion”. I don’t watch many TED talks, but the title of this one caught my eye, and I’m glad it did because it resonated so much with my journey after graduating to discovering myself and beginning to carve my path in life.
I recently binged Greenleaf on Netflix, I guess having lots of free time plus procrastinating on my packing helped, lol. Grace, Mae, and Zora are my top 3 characters, it’s so good.
I’ve been listening to a new podcast called We Bought a House with Claudia Sulewski and Finneas. I love Finneas’s music and I watch Claudia on YouTube, so this was an easy subscribe for me. It’s been getting me through my last bits of packing and cleaning out my flat — just fun, casual conversations and stories about their lives.
I started watching Terrace House: Tokyo 2019–2020 on Netflix, really enjoying this one. It’s a Japanese reality show, I like the vibe so far because of how natural the show feels compared to other reality shows.