There’s another reason we live overseas…
1 min readNov 24, 2019
It’s not just the road less travelled. It’s off the map. It’s about hiding not adventure.
It’s about leaving peers behind. School friends, college mates, colleagues. It’s about not being compared. Your career, your family, progress (or lack of it).
It’s about not going to the same pub at 60 that you went to at 20. It’s about not seeing friends and family age. It’s not growing old publicly.
It’s not competing. Not even taking part. All expectations avoided
It’s taking no responsibility. What my country does is not my fault. Neither my birthplace nor my adopted home will embarrass me.
Not bravery. Cowardice.
But everything you avoid is replaced. An anxiety vacuum is created.
You can escape everything but yourself.
