It is hard to come up with a clever and interesting new post today. I feel like I probably need some time to clear up my mind after yesterday's post. (Thank you for your kind and clever comments! I really appreciate them!)
Currently, I am trying to figure things out and to make some plans. Not necessarily about our rental, but in a broader perspective.
I desperately want to know whether our life as it is now makes any sense. Whether we really enjoy the way we are living now? Whether it is good for us as a family? Is everyone in our family really happy with our situation? Does this whole living as expats thing lead to anywhere?
This is a topic that we are discussing with my husband almost every day, but we never seem to find answers.
And then there is the question whether I need to think about this at all?
Q: What do you see yourself doing five years from now?.
A: I have no idea. I've never had a career plan and never will. I just always make sure that I'm doing something I love at the moment, and find out where it takes me. I float down river, then I wake up and say, “Oh, here I am. I've had a swell float.”
- Diane Sawyer, interviewed in US magazine, Sept., 1997
Q: What do you see yourself doing five years from now?.
A: I have no idea. I've never had a career plan and never will. I just always make sure that I'm doing something I love at the moment, and find out where it takes me. I float down river, then I wake up and say, “Oh, here I am. I've had a swell float.”
- Diane Sawyer, interviewed in US magazine, Sept., 1997
wow, I really like that Diane Sawyer quote about work! Too bad it doesn't usually go as well with the family aspect... =/
VálaszTörlésI totally understand how you're asking these questions. We ask them ourselves regularly. There's another place we seriously consider moving to, but it always ends up getting nixed because although there are tons of friends, it is just killer financially and would be incredibly hard to find satisfying jobs that pay enough. Still, we probably have 1-2 long discussions a month about it. It's not easy to be an expat sometimes.
I know it is quite often that expats have doubts. Living away from family makes everything really hard, at least for me..
VálaszTörlésThese are really hard decisions, I really loved renting in London and here for five years but looking back it did add to the impermanence.
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