Moving Abroad: DON'T Let This Identity Crisis Hit You!

What's left is just you, right? In a What's left is just you, right? In a foreign country with no external foreign country with no external foreign country with no external framework telling you what your worth. framework telling you what your worth. framework telling you what your worth. It's a confrontation that some people It's a confrontation that some people It's a confrontation that some people are genuinely just not ready for in are genuinely just not ready for in are genuinely just not ready for in their life, and that failure looks their life, and that failure looks their life, and that failure looks different depending on the person. So, different depending on the person. So, different depending on the person. So, some people end up just recreating the some people end up just recreating the some people end up just recreating the stress of their old life in a new one. I stress of their old life in a new one. I stress of their old life in a new one. I feel that way some days, you know, feel that way some days, you know, feel that way some days, you know, feeling every hour with frantic feeling every hour with frantic feeling every hour with frantic productivity, planning, optimizing, productivity, planning, optimizing, productivity, planning, optimizing, to-do lists, to-do lists, to-do lists, uh because stillness can feel like the uh because stillness can feel like the uh because stillness can feel like the intensity of silence, right? Some people intensity of silence, right? Some people intensity of silence, right? Some people go in the exact opposite direction. They go in the exact opposite direction. They go in the exact opposite direction. They drift, their days become weeks, the drift, their days become weeks, the drift, their days become weeks, the novelty wears off, they gain weight, novelty wears off, they gain weight, novelty wears off, they gain weight, they get heavy, they get drunk, they they get heavy, they get drunk, they they get heavy, they get drunk, they sleep around, right? They're left sleep around, right? They're left sleep around, right? They're left sitting in a beautiful place with an sitting in a beautiful place with an sitting in a beautiful place with an identity-shaped hole in the middle of identity-shaped hole in the middle of identity-shaped hole in the middle of their life, and they just keep feeding their life, and they just keep feeding their life, and they just keep feeding it, you know, with the gluttony. People it, you know, with the gluttony. People it, you know, with the gluttony. People who make it through this, it's a real who make it through this, it's a real who make it through this, it's a real passage, it's a journey, it's not a passage, it's a journey, it's not a passage, it's a journey, it's not a permanent state, are people who've done permanent state, are people who've done permanent state, are people who've done some of the inner work before they left, some of the inner work before they left, some of the inner work before they left, who've done some thinking, some reading, who've done some thinking, some reading, who've done some thinking, some reading, done some planning, who know what done some planning, who know what done some planning, who know what actually actually actually They know the questions they have to They know the questions they have to They know the questions they have to answer before, right? Their interests, answer before, right? Their interests, answer before, right? Their interests, their curiosities, their projects, their their curiosities, their projects, their their curiosities, their projects, their relationship, the creativity, a genuine relationship, the creativity, a genuine relationship, the creativity, a genuine vision of what you're building, what you vision of what you're building, what you vision of what you're building, what you want in life.