Do you know that feeling when you arrive in a new country and suddenly you have no identity?
You can be the person you’ve always wanted to be. Your problems don’t exist. The people and situations connected to your “normal life” aren’t there. You feel light and free, like you can do anything. You feel healthy and strong.
The world is your oyster. ✨
Why does this feeling only exist during a vacation?
Imagine that in three hours you have a flight to Japan and you’re checking your luggage. Tickets, clothes, money, appliances turned off. You don’t have the time or space to deal with the past. For a moment, we let go of our identity and realize that no experience defines us. The past doesn’t exist.
It’s only a memory.
Every time we relive it, we bring it back to life—and choose to live in it again. Only when we are exposed to new stimuli (a new country, language, people, culture) do we realize that we’ve been prisoners of our own past.
Are you still thinking about that one comment your colleague made? An insult from elementary school? A failure you once put all your hopes into?
It doesn’t exist. And yet you let it control your entire life. 🚀
Has this ever happened to you? Have you ever found yourself in a situation where the past stopped existing? Where it lost all meaning? Where it didn’t matter anymore?
It’s because you’re not stuck in your past. You’re loyal to it. ♻️
Every second, we have the right to choose and become whoever we want to be, and to experience whatever we want. Untouched. New. As if nothing had ever happened. Not as motivation. Not as hope.
But as a fact you’ve been ignoring.
Have you ever experienced this? Let me know!
Love, 🩷
Zuzka