It happened just one time in my life. After finishing my study I was ready to move to Hong Kong for a while. I found an interesting job there and I was single. Two weeks before I left I fell head over heels in love with someone in Germany. We had kind of a crazy whirlwind romance and suddenly I was sitting in the plane, ready to leave.

I became an expat in a new city, which not only brought with it a change for me personally, but also for my entire life. The possibilities were endless. All of a sudden there was a whole new list of opportunities and challenges awaiting me. Somehow I was just thinking big! Suddenly the whole world was limitless. I experienced not only a new culture and way of life whilst I was abroad, but also I made new friends and met colleagues from all over the globe.

It was just destiny, kind of the adage of “when you’re not looking you find it”. There was no way that my romance stopped me of going away, even when I was in tears. I told me all the time that I am an independent woman, even when I did not really believe it! And I told myself that being apart will be the perfect test of our relationship, leading him perhaps moving too or me perhaps moving back sooner than expected and either way lots of meeting in the middle. Nothing of that happened! We lost contact and we never saw each other again. But it is part of my life and I like to remember it.

After all, life should be passionate, challenging, scary, exciting! But life should never ever be boring. If you need a change, go for it! Try a new city or a new place with new faces, new language, new culture! Challenge yourself!