I Left Thinking Life Would Be Better and Here’s What It Cost Me

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I Left Thinking Life Would Be Better and Here’s What It Cost Me

Familiar Comforts Don’t Feel Valuable Until They’re Gone

I Learned That Remorse Is Complicated

I Lost Parts of My Identity

I Miscalculated the Price of Starting With New Things

I Mistook Escape for Growth

I Would Have Learned Other Things had I Remained

Loneliness Struck Me Stronger than I Thought

New Does Not Have to Be Better, Just Noisier

The Distance Transformed Relationships Forever

What Not Sticking Stirred in Me

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I went away thinking that distance would work everything out. I believe that a new location, new individuals, and new habits will be clarifying and refreshing. What I had not anticipated was how much away the leaving would bring me- silent losses, invisible trade offs and lessons which only revealed themselves later on, when the excitement had died down.
 

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