The 10 Biggest Lessons I Learned from Living in 5 Different Countries During My 20s
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The 10 Biggest Lessons I Learned from Living in 5 Different Countries During My 20s
Once you move overseas, you slowly, without noticing at first, start to develop a new struggle around your identity that you didn’t know existed before. Before your move, you had simple answers to questions such as “Where are you from?” and “Where’s home for you?”
Camille Armantrout • Once Upon an Expat
It made me start to wonder just how much I’d been affected by the bubble of prosaic routine in the US, feeling the only path to success was rigidly linear. This was a gentle reminder that there were no straight lines on the path to success. Success became a universe of possibilities. Their energy imbued my world with new, limitless horizons.
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