This is beautiful! I am on a somewhat similar journey right now, mainly in the sense that I have reached a point in my life that I have realized I have been my own worst enemy for most of my life. I NEVER put myself first, not in the martyr sense, but just that I am always willing to forgo my wants, so that somebody else can have their wants. Because I never thought MY wants were important. But I have changed that. My husband and are are looking at moving abroad, as living here in the United States has become somewhat exhausting for us and we are wanting to slow down. Italy has always been my number one choice but we recently started looking at Portugal because from what we have been able to find getting a visa in Italy can be quite hard if you don’t have a lot of money or aren’t a highly skilled individual. Fortunately we have enough passive income to qualify for the D7 in Portugal so we might end up going that route, but I would love to be able to call Italy home one day!
U know I’m one of those people who thought u had the perfect life, I never understood how u was struggling with depression and all ur demons in this yrs.
It was clear from some post u were gone through a lot but I never asked because I always thought u will share it at ur time and with u want and IF u want at ur own conditions.
What u wrote about the strong Aussie man it’s pretty universal, in Italy also the man had to be strong without emotion this in the past in the last yrs people can share their emotions more.
In particular the new generation are very lucky.
One of the hardest thing of the life is processing the death of the parents, I don’t remember if I said it to u yrs ago, I lost my dad when I was 13 I cried only for few sec, my sis said to me to not cry and I stopped.
For years for me was difficult facing with all the emotions, I was always angry, I lost completely the faith in my fam (no one told me he was so ill). Plus until the 18 there wasn’t a moment of tranquility, those yrs could be used for a series of a drama tv show.
It had to work a lot on me to find a little bit of light and calm.
It’s hard for me to understand how u focused on another “addiction” the one of helping too many people, I can imagine how was ur days completely full of things to do without time for u.
I’m glad that Sicily is helping u to take the quality of life back, about the dark cloud even in Sicily, I will be 100% honest like always DANNY TAKE U TIME!
If one day u don’t want to go to the kitchen and stay at home stay at home, if one day u want paint do it, if another u think u have to take a nap or spending all the day at the beach do it, believe me it will help ur soul and mind.
And writing here I think it’s extremely therapeutic at least for me it is, sharing what u felt and how u feel here it’s extremely important and helpful it a way to connect people and understanding we aren’t alone even when we think we are.
Thanks a lot for sharing this it strikes to the heart.
This is beautiful! I am on a somewhat similar journey right now, mainly in the sense that I have reached a point in my life that I have realized I have been my own worst enemy for most of my life. I NEVER put myself first, not in the martyr sense, but just that I am always willing to forgo my wants, so that somebody else can have their wants. Because I never thought MY wants were important. But I have changed that. My husband and are are looking at moving abroad, as living here in the United States has become somewhat exhausting for us and we are wanting to slow down. Italy has always been my number one choice but we recently started looking at Portugal because from what we have been able to find getting a visa in Italy can be quite hard if you don’t have a lot of money or aren’t a highly skilled individual. Fortunately we have enough passive income to qualify for the D7 in Portugal so we might end up going that route, but I would love to be able to call Italy home one day!
D. Oh my god!
This post go really to the soul!
U know I’m one of those people who thought u had the perfect life, I never understood how u was struggling with depression and all ur demons in this yrs.
It was clear from some post u were gone through a lot but I never asked because I always thought u will share it at ur time and with u want and IF u want at ur own conditions.
What u wrote about the strong Aussie man it’s pretty universal, in Italy also the man had to be strong without emotion this in the past in the last yrs people can share their emotions more.
In particular the new generation are very lucky.
One of the hardest thing of the life is processing the death of the parents, I don’t remember if I said it to u yrs ago, I lost my dad when I was 13 I cried only for few sec, my sis said to me to not cry and I stopped.
For years for me was difficult facing with all the emotions, I was always angry, I lost completely the faith in my fam (no one told me he was so ill). Plus until the 18 there wasn’t a moment of tranquility, those yrs could be used for a series of a drama tv show.
It had to work a lot on me to find a little bit of light and calm.
It’s hard for me to understand how u focused on another “addiction” the one of helping too many people, I can imagine how was ur days completely full of things to do without time for u.
I’m glad that Sicily is helping u to take the quality of life back, about the dark cloud even in Sicily, I will be 100% honest like always DANNY TAKE U TIME!
If one day u don’t want to go to the kitchen and stay at home stay at home, if one day u want paint do it, if another u think u have to take a nap or spending all the day at the beach do it, believe me it will help ur soul and mind.
And writing here I think it’s extremely therapeutic at least for me it is, sharing what u felt and how u feel here it’s extremely important and helpful it a way to connect people and understanding we aren’t alone even when we think we are.
Thanks a lot for sharing this it strikes to the heart.
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