Dear Internet,

So in exactly 16 days, I will be shipping my life over to another part of the country for the second time in 3 years. The difference this time, however, is that I will be a 4 hour plane flight and not a 2 hour car drive away, so I will not have the ability to come home every weekend whenever I feel like it. This thought alone terrifies me.

Moving to another city and starting fresh is never easy. But I do take solace in the fact that my parents moved half-way around the world when they were slightly younger than myself and they did fine: they raised my brother and myself, and immersed themselves in a community that embraced them equally.

Also, after being unemployed for nearly 10 months, I am ecstatic to have a sense of purpose in my life again. On the other hand, I feel like this long purposeless journey has dulled my senses, drive, and confidence. I am eager to put my brain and hands to work again, but will I be able to do that with as much vigour as I have previously done? I’m not getting any younger. Turning 30 this year was a wake-up call. These seeds of self-doubt are planted within each of us, I am sure. So I will just have to apply self-tough love and keep telling myself that this is the way it has to be and suck it up.

What about you, Internet? What wisdom can you offer me? I plan to keep a semi-consistent log of my adventure to my new home here, scattered among the random distractions that I find share-worthy throughout the internet. Please check back every once in a while to make sure that I’m still alive.

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K

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