Off-Scale Happiness and Moving Country

Storytelling insights from master Vonnegut and facing a loss of identity as a foreigner.

Hello

from my new home and apologies for the radio silence.

I don’t like making excuses but I feel that moving country is a perfectly acceptable one.

It’s not just your average stressful move down the road, it’s a million micro decisions because when you take a plane and move with just two suitcases (as I do every time), you have to temporarily abandon most of your belongings. Cue overwhelm. Then surrender.

What would you take?

2x23 kilograms. The weight of two medium-large dogs. If I could have taken my dog when I left the Philippines, I would have happily given up that my suitcase and lived in pyjamas for a year (if I were a pyjama person).

And here I was about to tell you my story….

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https://hadassa.substack.com/p/off-scale-happiness-and-moving-country