Posts under ‘difficult situations’

Two years and ten months ago, I wanted a thing. I almost had it, but made a grown-up decision for once and decided to decline the offer so that my husband could go to school and get the education he wanted. We said to each other that if it’s meant to be, if the thing was [...]

I have to get a new job. That’s priority #1. I am trying to have faith in that what’s meant to happen, will happen. Maybe I’ll get a well-paid hairdressing job (ha!) in Stockholm. Maybe I’ll open my own, wildly successful salon here. Maybe some airline will offer me a cabin crew position. Either way, [...]

I did it. I signed up for the beginner’s course in Italian. I came up with a multitude of excuses and reasons why I shouldn’t, then I more or less asked for my husband’s permission, then I came up with more excuses and then I signed up for the course. It is ridiculous. I have [...]

My word for 2011 is ‘dare’. I must learn the difference between ‘being bold’ and ‘being irresponsibly and naively spontaneous’, but I don’t want to let the fear of failure stop me from even trying anymore. I am afraid of taking on too much. I have a habit of doing just that, which has taken [...]

I went back to my old school today, the school I went to from first to sixth grade; September 1986 to June 1991. Five years of my life, twenty years ago. I had not yet turned 12 when we finished sixth grade, and I swore never to go back. Until today I hadn’t been back [...]