For a long time, I thought I was waiting for a visa.
But I’ve realized I was actually waiting for a way out.
The visa became my only imagined exit from the life I was afraid of being stuck in. So every time I thought about moving forward, I wondered, What if the visa comes?
I was putting my life on hold for something I couldn’t control.
I can still let the visa application run its course. If it comes, I’ll decide what to do then. But I don’t want it to be the only path I allow myself to have.
So I’m going to create more.
I’m going to create multiple pathways and keep learning what I don’t know.
I’m going to keep learning, experimenting, writing and looking for opportunities outside the little box I’ve put myself in.
I want more doors.
I need more paths.
Freedom might not always about finally finding the door that takes you somewhere else.
Freedom is realizing that you are capable of building another door yourself.