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White Spirit Butterfly
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What happened was that my life got flipped completely around again.
The tl;dr version is that I met the love of my life while contracting in another country, ended up moving there permanently.
The somewhat longer version:
I had just started the quest up again, thinking that my life had stabilised when I met the person I currently live with while I was working abroad. I've been in long relationships before, but they were not particularly great for a lot of reasons. My feelings towards the other persons (one at a time, but sequential) had been affectionate, but always a little cloudy and difficult for me to understand. I just thought that was the normal case for me, that I just wasn't very good at knowing how I felt. Until I met the right person. Within days I knew that this was it. And the clarity of it was like a searchlight blasting away fog, I had never really been in love with anyone before.
Anyway at the time that happened I was working as a contractor for a company in another country. The clients had already been trying to talk me into coming over to their side permanently, and falling in love made that choice easy. Unfortunately by moving here and joining the company I breached a non-compete with the previous company and that turned much uglier than expected (although they eventually settled). That was then combined with the financial stresses of moving. I was dirt poor to begin with, was deep in the hole afterwards for a long time, despite having a higher salary here.
The company that hired me has been running me absolutely ragged ever since I came here (June of 2015). Insane deadlines and impossible promises to the clients, the usual IT bollocks. I've barely had any time for anything else beside working and trying to learn the local language. However I recently quit that job and will be transition to a more sane work environment in the beginning of next month. As a consequence my stress levels went way down and almost immediately my quest brain started ticking again. I'm not promising anything at this point but I'm thinking about coming back.
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