This blog sits in the back of my head for quite some time now. I didn’t even know it was a blog for a very long time. It was just a raw, unrefined thought sitting, lurking, yearning in the dark for me to figure it out. From time to time I was publishing my thoughts in the social network in my mother tongue, got good responses and felt there was something beyond. That my experiences both good and bad, the insights, the happy (and search for happiness), and frustrations are common to a lot of us. So, I decided to open a blog.

The blog is a virtual hug to everyone. Not just for immigrants. We all struggle with something. We all have our obstacles, challenges and dark moments. It’s ok. We are humans.  I discovered we shouldn’t fight it. Tal Ben-Shahar, one of the leading happiness researchers declaring that the energy we are wasting trying to fight this bad feeling actually blocking the good feelings as we have one “emotional pipe-line”. I will write about it in the next blogs.

So how did it start?

About four years ago I immigrated to Australia, I’ll write about it in the following posts. After the first “high” of coming to a new country and having a fresh start and integration in a new place came reality, for me it was kind of a forced landing.

I didn’t understand (and sometimes still don’t) why am I not fully happy? Why after all the hassle that included leaving our home family and friends behind, selling our house, uproot the kids, giving up on my professional prestige, and many other small bits, after the first stardust has sunk, I started to feel something is missing. I achieved my basic goals but I am not satisfied. And my main fear was I am going back to square number one, the emotional and mental place I was overseas. What a surprise… I took myself with me.

So, I started to think about it and search for the roots of my own personal unhappiness. Started to learn and practise happiness. I am learning about me, myself, Australia, and being a newcomer to Australia.

The blog is a reflection of me in the journey to finding purpose, significance and meaning behind this emotional, and sometimes very chaotic journey, and try to find order in this magnificent chaos that we call life.

Thank you for joining me.

ASM