My Life Journey Continues

This week I made a big decision. I decided to move to my sister and her family in the USA as soon as I receive my green card. This will be the fourth country I’m gonna live in. I’ve already lived in Surinam, Bonaire (the Dutch Antilles) and Holland. Each country has its beautiful and less beautiful sides but wherever you go, you always have to make the best out of it. Nobody else can do it for you.

I’m very excited about this decision, because I’m ready for a new adventure. For new life lessons to learn by myself and to teach others. I’m very happy that I’m gonna be close to Debbie and her lovely big family, because then I can be part of it and enjoy her 4 kids and 13 grandkids since l don’t have one myself. The strange thing about this decision is that l already made it 12 years ago. Then l met my husband and stopped the green card process to be with him. Now that we’re almost divorced l’m restarting the process. I probably wasn’t ready for it then, but now I think I am. At this point I have nothing to lose, only to gain. I’ll be close to my sister, my brother in law, their kids and grandkids, I’ll enjoy their crazy and adventurous way of living and I’ll be able to spoil their grandkids as if they’re my own. Also Debbie and I will be able to work together in person without a time difference and so on.

Of course there will also be some trouble sometimes because in the beginning I’m gonna live together with Debbie and her husband and living together with someone, anyone, is one of the most challenging things in life. Because everyone is different and has a different way of thinking about and doing things. But as long as we keep communicating and respecting each other, things are gonna work out just fine.

I’m looking forward to this journey and I think it’s gonna be a success even though I’ll have to adjust to a lot of things. But since I’m very flexible I’ll be okay. And in case this journey doesn’t work out the way I expect it, I can always move back to Holland or to another country. It’s just something I want to experience. Because we only live once I always try to live life to the max and the words I don’t want to say on my dying bed are: ‘I wish I had…’

I’ll miss Europe for sure. Its diversity in culture, language, people, food and so on. I have really nice memories of all my European trips with my husband. Maybe I’ll visit London before my emigration because it’s still on my ‘to see list’. But I’m also looking forward to see New Orleans, I love the blues for its rawness, Savannah and Charleston for their historical buildings, Hawaii because I love the sea and windsurfing. Maybe I can learn how to surf out there. There’s enough to see, learn and experience in the USA. Maybe it’s gonna take some time to get the green card, but someday I’ll be there…