What I Learned After Moving Around the World

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Me in Thailand, copyright by author

I am sure you know the saying:

The grass is always greener on the other side.

Sometimes this can be true, but in my case, it wasn’t.

To the outside world, it might have looked like I was running away from something or maybe even from myself, but each move brought me closer to myself and my true nature. Because I was allowed to experience so many different places and countries, I now know what I like and what I don’t.

I grew up in Germany until I was about 6 years old, then my Austrian parents moved back to Styria (AT). For many years, this was all that I knew. Germany, Austria, and a little bit of Italy were my whole world. Growing up, I had barely any understanding of other cultures or even other languages. I knew about English, but that was about it for my horizon as a 7-year-old girl.…