It sounds cliche but I’ve come to fully realize this after two years digital nomading around the world. Everywhere has problems. Everywhere.

Along the way I’ve romanticized and unromanticized everywhere I’ve been. I mean this on both a practical level, in terms of COL/infrastructure as well as spiritually, reflecting on how the place made me feel.

At first London seemed lively and exciting. Later it felt overcrowded, tiring and expensive.

Japan seemed so modern, clean and polite. Later it felt closed-off, shallow and impersonal.

The world is broken and constantly moving. At the end of it, I’ve come full circle and am now going back home. I’ve got some beautiful memories and am super grateful to have had this experience, but it’s time to close the book on this chapter.

What’s your experience been?

Edit: for those who are like ‘you’re only JUST realizing this now!?’ Etc, it’s like yeah, obviously I realized this intellectually. ‘Wherever you go, there you are’ is a pop psychology bumper sticker written everywhere. It’s very different to intellectualize something and actually experience it first hand, which is what I needed.