Author name: Mia L

On letting go, unexpected turns, and learning to live in the present. In my last post, I wrote about putting my visa in a box and moving on with my life, letting it remain in the background instead of allowing it to dictate my days. Funny how life works. Just when I decided to move

I have been waiting for my work visa to be granted for more than a year. And now, after all this time, I received an update that it is going to take even longer than expected. I broke down as soon as I read the message. I think part of me had been holding on

These days, I’ve been trying to be more present. I keep reminding myself that everything is temporary. Where I am now is temporary. This uncertainty is temporary. Even this version of me is temporary. I know that by this time next year, I probably won’t be where I am today. My life will look different

I took a month off writing because my brain was overloaded. Loaded with future plans, career moves, and the fear of losing time. I was constantly worrying about the what-ifs and trying to think of ten thousand ways to make things right. Eventually, my brain became so overloaded that I burned out. I constantly felt

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?

Every month, there are days when I feel unstoppable. I wake up motivated and feel like nothing can stop me. I want to learn everything, do everything, build everything. And then there are days when life just sucks. Getting anything done feels difficult, especially during the days when I’m more emotional and everything annoys me.

Lately, I’ve realised that no matter how productive I try to be, my mind always circles back to the life I’m waiting to return to. I’ve been reading, learning Spanish, studying Traditional Chinese Medicine, writing this blog, and slowly getting back into exercising. On paper, it looks like I’m making good use of this season.

I took a nine-day tour through China, hoping it would give me a break from reality. For nine days, it did. I wandered through new cities, admired landscapes I’d only ever seen in photos, ate incredible food, and met people who, for a brief moment, became part of my journey. My days were full, my

What do you want to be when you grow up? It’s a question I’ve been asked countless times, and one I never quite knew how to answer. Whenever I did answer, it was always different. Now, I think I understand why. There isn’t just one answer. For the longest time, I believed I had to

There was a time when I pinned everything on Pinterest. The places I wanted to visit. The homes I dreamed of living in. The little luxuries I hoped to buy one day. Every pin felt like a promise to myself—a reminder of what I was working towards. But somewhere along the way, I stopped. Maybe