“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”

Paulo Coelho

Dear Korea,

You reminded me that chances of a lifetime will come with tests of willpower and choice. But I still believe in fate.

I left an amazing, stable life to move to Seoul! I uprooted five years of building my life in a city where I had stability and comforts that I miss daily. Moving to Korea was the hardest but the most important decision I’ve ever made in my entire life. Everyone told me that I had been talking about it for a long time and knew this was something I wanted to do. I never realized I had been putting it out into the universe but sometimes we do things subconsciously, I think to move us forward. This move happened fast, so fast that I didn’t even have time to do a lot of what I wanted to do before I left the country. But when life gives you chances you never thought were possible, you take them. And that’s what i did. I made the decision to move to Korea, I called my parents that evening to let them know that I was going to start setting things in motion and didn’t know how long it would take but to prepare themselves for this move. Within two weeks I had several conversations with people who connected me with possible opportunities in Korea and within those same two weeks I got a job offer that had me moving to Korea in only three weeks. I knew this would be a life changing decision that was necessary to continue building my life story, my narrative that many years from now I can look back on and know that I really lived.