Personally, I believe that the essence of our personalities and perspective on life are based on the life learnings that we had.

If you read my previous blogs, you might know that as a teenager, I emigrated together with my family from Belarus abroad. Prior to that, even though we visited couple of other countries as tourists, I never stopped to think what is different here?

I started my schooling in Belarus and finished it abroad. I had a privilege to experience three different education systems. All good in some ways and not so good in others.

I lived in three different countries and was exposed to three different cultures. As a teenager, I had capacity to fully immerse and experience them all.

One of the major learnings from this experience was that I learned how to leave past in the past and look forward to future.

Comparing my hubby and I, for example, I do not have attachment to my things from the past. Toys, books, school notes, etc. I did not keep any.

The only items that I hold dear are the letters from my grandma, who passed away couple of years ago.

I also do not look at the past. My hubby often says, if something happened this way in the past, we wouldn’t be struggling or we would have this and that.

I, on the other hand, do not regret anything that happened in the past. I believe learning from mistakes, never make them again and look forward to what’s coming.

I had unfortunate experience in academia, where I was badly bullied. Since then, I will never allow anyone to treat me that way in a job again. I know that I can change my job at any point and will not be stuck in a position where unhappy people are lashing out.

What matters in my life is my family. As long as you are together (not in a physical sense) that’s all that matters. My family is scattered around the globe, but we are always there for each other no matter how far apart we are.