Stick to your dreams…
…even, if people tell you better not to! And that happens an awful lot, when you are a Greencard owner with plans of moving abroad!
Being only a few months away from moving to another country, you naturally doubt your decision a lot! I honestly know that we need to do this. That we don’t risk losing much! We are young, our english is pretty good, we are experienced workers and work in jobs we can do in the US, too! And we don’t have kids that we need to bring abroad with us, yet. But even, if I know that I won’t lose much more than a dream when we might come back after a year, I sometimes am seriously scared!
In this situation you somehow hope that your family and loved ones will try to take that fears away from you. But they won’t! Because they are scared of you getting hurt! Their fears added to yours, sometimes is way too much to handle! After every serious talk we have with our parents, I need to calm myself down and tell myself that this is a chance I waited for a long long time and that Flo is with me and that everything will work out fine – no matter if we will make it in the US or not!
We always laugh about the people they show in these emigration documentaries on TV, because they don’t care about anything and don’t prepare theirselves enough. But sometimes I actually wish that I might have a bit of their naivity and careless nature. Because being as serious and realistic about the whole emigration thing (as we are) might be healthy, but is nowhere near easy!
July 18th, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Reading your blog helps so much! You express exactly what I feel! I am really happy about winning the Green Card but am pretty scared, too.
Good luck for everything you’ve planned!
July 19th, 2010 at 9:58 am
Yeah, it’s scary – but most adventures are kinda scary….and fun! One day, when you both are old you’ll look back and see something you always wanted, even though it kicks you out of your comfort zone, and you did! How many people can say they were able to live their dreams? It’s priceless!