So, big changes in my life recently. I packed up my entire life and left it in a storage space, and then more importantly, moved 12,600km from Pretoria to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Moving to a new city, in a new country, is a daunting experience. You have no sense of the familiar, and what I have found more importantly, is that creating a new social scene can be tough. Moving here in winter, when it it pitch dark at 16:30, also does not help. Look, I am not complaining. I have a wonderful life, and this new job provides amazing opportunities, but it has not been easy, and writing this the day before Thanksgiving, when everyone seems to be with loved ones, and all I have to look forward to is laundry, does not stave off the sense of loneliness I feel right now.
Sometimes just saying it out loud helps. Now, off to help myself. I am going to immediately look up other South Africans in the area, and then reach out to a few friends tomorrow and break this funk.
Onwards and upwards. To infinity and beyond. Yada yada yada.
Sometimes just saying it out loud helps. Now, off to help myself. I am going to immediately look up other South Africans in the area, and then reach out to a few friends tomorrow and break this funk.
Onwards and upwards. To infinity and beyond. Yada yada yada.
